Kyiv Half Marathon

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Kyiv Half Marathon
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Kyiv Half Marathon Logo 2018
DateApril
Location Kyiv, Ukraine
Event type Road
Distance Half marathon, 5K run
Primary sponsor Work.ua
Established2011(12 years ago) (2011)
Organizer Run Ukraine Running League  [ uk ]
Course recordsMen's: 1:02:56 (2018)
Flag of Ethiopia.svg Tesfaye Anbesa
Women's: 1:10:53 (2019)
Flag of Kenya.svg Daisy Kimeli
Official site Kyiv Half Marathon
Participants2,169 finishers (2021)
4,829 (2019)

The Kyiv Half Marathon is an annual road running event over the half marathon distance which is held in April on the streets of Kyiv, Ukraine since 2011. In 2015 Kyiv half marathon became a full member of the AIMS. It carries World Athletics Silver Label Road Race status. [1] The race is part of the Run Ukraine Running League  [ uk ], an annual series of races held in Ukrainian cities. [2]

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History

In 2018, the participants were traditionally offered to choose one of the individual courses of the event: 21.0975 km, 5 km and 2 km. Besides the individual races, the 8th Kyiv Half Marathon included relay races (1х10 km + 1х11 km HeForShe Kyiv Half Marathon Relay and 3х5 km + 1х6 km Under Armour Relay) and corporate races (Chamber Cup, Diplomat Cup, Security Cup). The organizers welcomed almost 1000 children of various ages in children's races: 1000 m, 500 m, and 100 m. The number of participants reached 11000 people (3595 participated in the half marathon race) from 52 countries. [3]

Additionally, the 8th Kyiv Half Marathon became the first running event in Ukraine to receive the Bronze Label from the world organization IAAF. [4]

The 2020 in-person edition of the race was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, with all registrants given the option of transferring their entry to 2021 or 2022, or receiving credit of equivalent value for other races. [5] [lower-alpha 1]

On 3 March 2022, a week after Russia invaded Ukraine with help from Belarus, Run Ukraine banned Russian and Belarusian runners from all its events, and stated that the runners' registration fees would be used to restore Ukraine. [9] Two weeks later, on 17 March, Run Ukraine announced that the half marathon was postponed indefinitely. [10]

Course

External image
Searchtool.svg Course map of half marathon in 2019 [11]

The route of the race runs across Kyiv city uniting two banks of the Dnipro river. Track surface: 97% – blacktop, 3% – paving. Total elevation gain – 172 meters. The start and finish lines of all courses are located in the same spot on Square of Contracts.

Winners

Key:    Course record

Ed.YearMen's winnerTime [lower-alpha 2] Women's winnerTime [lower-alpha 2] Rf.
2022cancelled due to Russia-Ukraine War [12]
102021Flag of Ukraine.svg  Bohdan-Ivan Horodyskyy  (UKR)1:03:41Flag of Ukraine.svg  Yevheniya Prokofyeva  (UKR)1:14:11 [13]
2020canceled due to coronavirus pandemic [5]
92019Flag of Kenya.svg  Bernard Sang  (KEN)1:03:42Flag of Kenya.svg  Daisy Kimeli  (KEN)1:10:53
82018Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Tesfaye Anbesa  (ETH)1:02:56Flag of Ukraine.svg  Viktoriya Kalyuzhna  (UKR)1:13:44 [14] [15]
72017Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Tesfaye Anbesa  (ETH)1:03:57Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Belaynesh Tsegaye  (ETH)1:13:58 [16]
62016Flag of Ukraine.svg  Taras Salo  (UKR)1:04:41Flag of Ukraine.svg  Hanna Nosenko  (UKR)1:13:55 [14]
52015Flag of Ukraine.svg  Yuriy Rosyuk  (UKR)1:06:51Flag of Ukraine.svg  Vita Poteriuk  (UKR)1:19:52
42014Flag of Ukraine.svg  Taras Salo  (UKR)1:06:34Flag of Ukraine.svg  Olga Yarotska  (UKR)1:23:07
32013Flag of Ukraine.svg  Oleksandr Sitkovskyy  (UKR)1:05:33Flag of Ukraine.svg  Svitlana Stanko-Klymenko  (UKR)1:18:12

Notes

  1. Initially, all foreigners, including elite foreign runners, were banned from running the race, but the event was eventually postponed to the second half of the year, and the ban on foreign runners lifted before the in-person event was eventually canceled. [6] [7] [8] [5]
  2. 1 2 h:m:s

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