The Great India Run, India’s first multi city marathon, was on Sunday flagged off after a ceremony at the Amar Jawan Jyoti here on Sunday. The event kicked off with a warm up session of the participating 15 ultra runners followed by flagging off the ultra run and 5k fun run.
Sports Minister Vijay Goel, Khel Ratna Anju Bobby George, and actor Gul Panag were present at the event.
Arun Bhardwaj led the team of 14 ultra runners at India Gate while three of the runners simultaneously flagged off 1480km run from Ghaziabad. At around 10:30 am all runners culminated at Kingdom of Dreams, Gurgaon to kick start the Haryana leg of run. The 5k fun run were also organised at each of these venues. The contingent consists of Arun Bhardwaj, Siddharth Choudhary, David Bredo, Yuri Esperson, Meenal Kotak, Ranjana Deopa, Melanie Delaney, Joginder Chandna, Dinesh Heda, Sreekanth Reddi, Pia Hansson, Shweta Sharma.