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Toledo, Ohio - January 17, 2020: The 44th Running of the Mercy Health Glass City Marathon has attracted the deepest women's field in the event's history, with each woman boasting a very impressive personal record. The race will take place on Sunday, April 26, 2020 at the University of Toledo, finishing inside the Glass Bowl Stadium.
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(Logo for the World Athletics Championships Oregon21 (World Athletics) © Copyright) World Athletics officials have praised the planning and preparations for the World Athletics Championships Oregon21, after a busy week of meetings and venue visits in both Portland and Eugene, Oregon this week.
During the visit, delegates toured the under-construction Hayward Field at the University of Oregon, visited local Eugene hotels, and attended numerous working meetings covering accommodation, broadcast requirements, press operations, event presentation and operations, security and ticketing.
The visiting delegation, comprised of both technical and broadcast experts, had a full agenda, beginning with two days in Portland as they considered course options for the championship marathons and race walks that they will now take to the next World Athletics Council meeting in Nanjing, China, for approval in March. They also met with Travel Oregon, a key stakeholder and driving force behind state-wide involvement in the event, and its wider promotion.
The World Athletics Championships Oregon21 will take place in both Eugene and Portland from 6-15 August 2021, with specific dates for the Portland events still to be determined. It is the first time the outdoor World Championships will be held on USA soil. The World Athletics Indoor Championships took place in Portland in 2016.
“This has been a packed few days but is important to ensure we are all on the same page in terms of expectations,” said World Athletics CEO Jon Ridgeon. “The Local Organising Committee has a unique approach to resource planning, using the skills and expertise of Oregonians and local partners working alongside experienced international staff with major global event production experts.”
“This is the first time ever that our world championships will be held in a stadium purpose-built specifically for athletics, rather than a multi-purpose sports stadium, which has its own challenges in terms of space but will provide a strong legacy for the sport here in the USA. Our tour of the Hayward Field stadium this week was exciting and although still under construction we can all imagine a world class event in 2021. Athletics fans the world over really have something to look forward to.”
Oregon21 CEO Niels de Vos added: “This has been an excellent visit in which we were able to share detailed plans with our counterparts from World Athletics. We are delighted to have secured World Athletics’ endorsement for those plans and will now double down on ensuring that we deliver against them.”
All in all, the week was deemed a great success, with everyone now looking forward to the next site visit, scheduled for June to coincide with the USA Olympic Trials.
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Over the past three years, Brooks has partnered with P3R to bring the best to Pittsburgh’s runners, and will excitedly continue the partnership through 2022
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RunBlogRun will be in Dubai for the 2020 event! This video is a great way to get some of the excitement of the marathon. What Peter Connorton has done, is to create an event that gives citizen athletes the chance to participate at their level, serious athletes to challenge their limits and elite athletes to show the world just how good they are!
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Ted Corbitt will be honored with the annual MarathonFoto/Road Race Management Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2019 Road Race Management Race Directors' Meeting November 8 in St. Petersburg, FL. The award is made for contributions to the sport of long-distance road running over the course of a lifetime. Scores of nominations were received that read like a Who's Who of running. The 11-member committee had the difficult task of reviewing the nominees.
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