3rd Kharkiv International Marathon is going to be the most memorable holiday of sport and a healthy lifestyle in 2016.
The main purpose of the event is to promote running in Ukraine by combining professional runners, amateurs and beginners from across the country.
As part of the 3-rd Kharkiv International Marathon will be held such distances:
– 42 km 195 m
– 10 km
– Relay
– Mini-marathon (4,2195 km)
Well, the youngest runners will compete in the children’s races on 200m, 500m and 1km, which will take place the day before the marathon start.
Two main distances 10k and 42k will pass through the most beautiful places in Kharkiv: on Sumska street, Pushkinska street and on Nauki avenue. Participants will run through the Maxim Gorkiy and Taras Shevchenko parks. They will see spectacular sightseeing of the city: Constitution and Architectorov Squares, “Mirror stream”, the Historical Museum, a monument to the mythical founder of the city Cossack Kharko.
First Kharkov Marathon 2014 gathered more than 10 thousand people. Largely due to this event Kharkiv is called as running capital of Ukraine.