Time: 2008/4/20
Venue: National Stadium
Price: 50/80
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Tel: 86-10-64177845
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Start
TIAN’ANMEN Square is the Centre of Beijing, Forbidden City located at thenorth of the square, and the west of the square is the People MeetingHall, the east of the square is the National Museum of China. Themarathon race will be started here.
Course
The course will go through the streets ofBeijing, which show the history and modern of Beijing, the culture andcustom of Beijing. The course will pass lots of historic tourist siteof Beijing, the Heaven Temple, the First Gate of Beijing, Yongdingmen,the heritage of Yuan dynasty. Also this course will pass modern part ofBeijing, Chang’an Street Commercial Area, Financial Street CommercialArea and famous high-tech area, Zhongguancun district. BeijingUniversity and Tsinghua University is the educational aspect of thiscourse.
Finish
The marathon race will be finished at National Stadium, which is the main stadium of Beijing Olympic Games.
Events
Men: Marathon (42.195km)
Women: Marathon (42.195km)
Competition Schedule
20 April, 2008 7:30--12:00 Men’s Marathon Final Women’s Marathon Final
Broom Bus
Abroom bus will follow the race to pick up any competitors who areunable to continue the race. Such competitors will be taken to theNational Stadium and escorted to the Posting Event Control Room.
Official Website: http://www.piao.com.cn/en%5Fpiao/ticket_1483.html
Added by One Night in Beijing on March 27, 2008