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May 22th, 2017
Swimmers Leave Marmaris Happy
International Arena Aquamasters Swimming Championship, the major swimming festival in Turkey, hosted more than one thousand participants this year. The fifth edition of the event has also become the second largest open water race of the country.
The event, staged between 17-21 May 2017, began with the Profilo Short Course Swimming Championship, followed by Setur Marinas 4x500 meters Relay Meet and finally Martı Hotels Open Water Swimming Championship.
Defining their general principles as “contributing to the awareness of swimming, offering a mass race to prove that the sport can be practiced by a wide range of age groups, and introducing open sea to the swimmers of every age”, Aquamasters held a very successful edition of the event, where the timing services were provided by Depar Timing. The 4x500m relay meet saw a record number of 84 teams, and a futher 700 participants started the open water races over three distances, 1500m, 3000m and 6000m. Swimmers stroke for three hours in the Marmaris Bay.
Adam Walker, the world-wide known endurance swimmer, joined the participants of the 5th International Arena Aquamasters Swimming Championship in their warm-up exercises.
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May 8th, 2017
Last Two Days To Register For Bozcaada
New Balance Bozcaada Half Marathon and 10K Run will be held on 13 May. Registration deadline is 9 May.
The seventh edition of the event is limited to 3000 participants. With two days to close, about 500 places remain available. Entries are made via the official website of the event at www.newbalancerun.com
The half marathon will start at 11:00 on Saturday, 13 May, and the 10k will follow at 11:30. Start and finish lines are at the Cumhuriyet Square.
Timing services for the New Balance Bozcaada Half Marathon and 10K Run are provided by Depar Timing. Full results will be posted on this website shortly after the finish of the events.
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May 3rd, 2017
A Race With No Finish Line
İzmir will host the Wings For Life World Run on 7 May. The event starts simultaneously in 25 countries, and the last competitor caught by the "catcher car" becomes the winner.
The event is organised by the non-profit Wings For Life Foundation, who invests in spinal cord research. Full entry fee as well as the donation provided by the participants goes to the Foundation.
On one day each year, the Wings for Life World Run takes place at event locations across the planet. Everybody starts at exactly the same moment, 11:00 UTC. The start time in İzmir is 14:00 whereas the participants start at 04:00 in California Santa Clarita, and at 21:00 in Melbourne.
In each of the cities the run is held, the competitors who are caught by a car are considered to have finished the race. The Catcher Car gives the runners a 30-minute head start, then takes off. The last runner to be caught by the Catcher Car in İzmir will be the Turkish winner, the last participant remaining in all cities will be crowned the world champion. Last year, the global winner was Giorgio Calcaterra of Italy who covered 88,44 kilometres in Milano before he was caught by the car. Ahmet Bayram with 52,78 kilometres was the winner in İzmir.
Timing services of Wings For Life World Run in İzmir is provided by Depar Timing in cooperation with the German company Datacapo. Depar Timing utilises different timing systems that it owns, and the system used in Wings For Life World Run is ChronoTrack, which times also Paris and New York marathons. -
April 23th, 2017
Kenyans Victorious in Osmangazi
Paul Kipkemoi Kipkorir and Esther Chesang Kakuri shared the honours at the 12th International Bursa Osmangazi Historical City Run.
Leading from the start, Kipkorir reached the finish line of the 15km race at 48:02. His compatriot Charles Kiplagat Korir took the second place with 48:28, beating Ethiopia's Getaye Fisseha Gelaw who finished in 48:35.
On the women's side, Kakuri who won in a time of 51:36, was followed by two Ethiopians. Sofiya Shemsu came home in 51:58, and Chaltu Dida Negasa was a distant third by 54:08.
Timing services was provided by Depar Timing at the International Bursa Osmangazi Historical City Run. Full results can be found on this website. -
April 11th, 2017
Running to Friendship
Friendship Without Borders Half Marathon, where the Turkish-Greek border is crossed by running, will be held on 4 June. The race starts and finishes in front of the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne.
Turkish-Greek-Bulgarian Friendship Group Association, the organiser of the event, announces the aim of the project as “running to friendship with friends to remind the friendship to the world”. The race offers the participants a unique experience, that is crossing the borders by running and without a passport. The runners leave Turkey through Pazarkule Border Gate, and make a turn from Kastanies in Greece, heading back to Edirne where the race starts.
Registration to the Friendship Without Borders Half Marathon is possible until 2 June via the website at www.friendshiphalfmarathon.org. Depar Timing is the official provider for the timing services of the event.
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