The fourth Chandigarh Marathon was organised on Sunday by Chandigarh Tourism Department and CII Chandigarh. The race under the joint drive of Chandigarh Tourism and CII celebrated ‘Happening Weekends of Chandigarh’ which evoked good response from the participants of tricity. The marathon was flagged off by UT Home Secretary Anil Kumar at 6 am from near Rock Garden here.
Three types of races were conducted during Chandigarh Marathon including the 5kmX4 Corporate Relay, the largest corporate relay in the country where four member teams from one organisation run 5 kilometres each to complete the 20 kilometre run. Other races were the 10kmX2 open challenge and 5k individual race.
The largest number of participants in Chandigarh edition was in the 5k individual race.
A spokesperson of the UT Administrations said that all participants received a running t-shirt from PUMA, a `500 gift voucher from Flipkart, finisher medal, finisher certificates, free breakfast from Costa Coffee and much more. Winners in all three formats – the Corporate Relay, the Open Challenge and the 5k Individual – received winner t-shirts, winner medals, trophies and certificates. The fastest woman and fastest man in the 10km and 5km distances won `10,000 gift vouchers.
The top 10 teams in the corporate relay (5kmX4) from Chandigarh qualify to compete at the national finals in Mumbai in March 2015. Winners of the national finals (the top teams in men, women and mixed categories) will win an all-expense paid trip to the Istanbul half-marathon in November 2015. In 5K individual category, Amit Kumar Yadav won the first prize; in 5K women, Sunita Malik won the first prize. In 5K men senior, Surinder Singh won the first prize and in 5K women senior, Usha Yadav won the first prize.
In 10Kx2 men, a team of Deepak Singh and Aman Singh won the first prize and in 10Kx2 mixed, Happy Feat Runners (Akash Mall and Priyanka Sharma) won the first prize. In 5kmx4 (mixed), Decathlon team won the first prize and in 5Kx4 (men), Tech Mahindra team won the first prize.