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Indian Marathon

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Indian Marathon
Indian Marathon
DateMay
LocationJaipur, India
Event typeRoad
DistanceMarathon, Half marathon, Ultra 50 km
Established2017
Course records03:02:13 - India Kailash Chand Yadav (Men) (2018)
04:08:18 - Canada Loretta Henderson (Women) (2018)
Official siteOfficial website

Indian Marathon is an annual international marathon event organized in Jaipur, India. It is a road running event that is held every year on second Sunday of May. Due to extremely high temperature in May, Indian Marathon is considered to be the hottest marathon and half marathon in India.[1][2] The event was established in 2017 by Indian Runners, an umbrella brand of running events across India.[3]

Course

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Indian Marathon is held annually during the summer season in Jaipur. Since, average high temperature in Jaipur during the month of May is 40.3 degrees Celsius, the marathon is listed as the hottest active running event in India. The race starts on second Sunday of May from Suresh Gyan Vihar University campus and routed to Mahal Road. The course is stretched to 42.195 km, 21.098 km and 50 km depending upon the type of running event. During the course of event, Mahal Road stays fully closed for traffic, making the event only "No Traffic" running event in Rajasthan.[4]

Race

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Indian Marathon has four different race categories which are collectively known as HOT Ultra.[5]

  • Ultra 50K - Ultra 50K is a 50 kilometers race event involving high endurance in heat.
  • Marathon - A long-distance road race with an official distance of 42.195 kilometers (26.219 miles; 26 miles 385 yards). The hottest marathon in India.
  • Half Marathon - A road running event of 21.0975 km (13 mi 192œ yd) half the distance of a marathon.
  • Supersonic 10K - A 10 km racing event which is fastest and hottest 10 km road race in India.

Apart from that there is a Monthly Running Challenges which was started in April 2018 with runners from across the country.[6]

Past results

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Race Type Year Men's winner Women's winner
September Challenge[7] 5 km daily for all 30 days of the month 2018 India Balraj Kaushik India Asvinee Sanjakumar Sarade
August Challenge[8] 5 km daily for all 31 days of the month 2018 India Balraj Kaushik India Bobby Bhatia
July Challenge[9] 5 km daily for all 31 days of the month 2018 India Keshav Manik Tahla India Sumita Rathi
June Challenge[10] 5 km daily for all 30 days of the month 2018 India Amit Bagra India Anita Janu
May Challenge[11] 5 km daily for all 31 days of the month 2018 India Keshav Manik Tahla India Roopal Jadav
300K Challenge[12] 300 km total running in the month of May 2018 India Gaurav Karjee India Madhuri Prakash Nimje
April Challenge[13] 5 km daily for all 30 days of the month 2018 India Dhanpat Saini India Ekta Awachar
Hot Ultra[14] Marathon, Half Marathon, 10K 2018 India Kailash Chand Yadav Canada Loretta Henderson

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