{"id":576,"date":"2019-04-06T10:54:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T10:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/v2.rhodesmarathon.gr\/2019\/04\/06\/2-20-00\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T12:20:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T12:20:29","slug":"2-20-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/2019\/04\/06\/2-20-00\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Kenyan runner at the Rhodes Marathon with a record goal under 2:20:00"},"content":{"rendered":"

One level higher is the\u00a0Rhodes Marathon<\/strong>\u00a0with the presence of a truly great runner in the race that will take place on Sunday 14 April. It is the\u00a0Bernard Chirchir<\/strong>, who after the actions of the technical director of the match\u00a0Nikos Polias<\/strong>\u00a0and with the support of the President of the organizing committee\u00a0Marietta Papavassiliou<\/strong>, but also of\u00a0AEGEAN<\/strong>, the official carrier of the event, will take part in the marathon as a guest athlete with the aim of a performance below 2:20:00.<\/p>\n

\"This is a runner with great potential and a lot of experience as he is part of the coaching team of Wilson Kipsang, Olympic bronze medalist and winner of five of the six Major Marathons, with a record of 2:03:13. In fact, he is the one who leads him on most of his training sessions in the town of Eden where they live and train together. His half marathon record is 1:04 at altitude in Nairobi, and at the age of 15 he ran the 1,500m in 3:42 also at altitude! Bernard has plenty of experience having run several marathons as a pacemaker for 30km and is now ready to run his first race. He is looking forward to coming to the island of Rhodes, where he aspires to start his career as a marathoner with a good performance well under 2:20. His preparation with Wilson Kipsang's team has gone very well and he feels ready to race!\"\u00a0Nikos Polias<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The entries for the marathon and half marathon have ended with athletes coming from\u00a047 countries<\/strong>, a record number for the race which proves that the\u00a0International Marathon of Rhodes<\/strong>\u00a0has established itself worldwide in the minds of runners and contributes greatly to the promotion of Rhodes and Greece abroad<\/p>\n

Continue however, the participation declarations for the races of\u00a05km, 10km.<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a01.000\u03bc.<\/strong>\u00a0for the children of the Primary Schools, as the\u00a0Monday 8 April 2019,\u00a0<\/strong>on the race website\u00a0https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr<\/a>\u00a0or at the Offices of the\u00a0Organizing Committee of the Rhodes Marathon,<\/strong>\u00a0EAS SEGAS Dodecanese, Vyronos 1 Rhodes. Contact hours 10am-1pm.<\/p>\n

\u039f\u00a0Marathon of Rhodes<\/strong>\u00a0organized by the\u00a0Region of South Aegean<\/strong>, the\u00a0E.A.S S.E.G.A.S Dodecanese<\/strong>, him\u00a0IOPAR<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0Municipality of Rhodes<\/strong>\u00a0as well as with the support of\u00a0Rhodes Hotel Association.<\/strong>\u00a0It is held under the auspices of\u00a0Greek Tourism Organisation<\/strong>\u00a0and has been included in the official calendar of the\u00a0AIMS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Big Communication Sponsor is the\u00a0ERT<\/strong>. The official air carrier of the Rhodes International Marathon is\u00a0Aegean Airlines<\/strong>\u00a0which offers 20% discount on all passengers' tickets to Rhodes, from all Greek and European destinations included in its flight schedule. H\u00a0Blue Star Ferries<\/strong>, is an Official Sponsor of Ferry Transport and provides 50% discount to passengers and 30% to vehicles travelling with its ferries to Rhodes, from Piraeus, Kos, Kalymnos, Leros and Syros.<\/p>\n

Named sponsor of the 5 km race is the club\u00a0The Hotels collection<\/strong>. The\u00a0Atrium Hotels<\/strong>\u00a0is a volunteer sponsor and the\u00a0Rodos Palace<\/strong>\u00a0sponsor of the children's race. The\u00a0Mitsis Grand Hotel<\/strong>\u00a0is the hospitality sponsor and the major sponsors are complemented by the hotel\u00a0Sunrise & Adidas.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Best Western Plaza<\/strong>\u00a0hosts the secretariat of the race. The green footprint of the race will be ensured by the electric cars of\u00a0Kosmokar-Xenakis SA\/ASEM<\/strong>. The runners quench their thirst with the water of the\u00a0BAP Kouyos<\/strong>, while the match is once again supported by the betting website\u00a0interwetten<\/strong>, \u03bf\u00a0Pharmaceutical Association of Dodecanese<\/strong>, the Greek cosmetics\u00a0Garden of Panthenols<\/strong>, the company\u00a0Cocks,<\/strong>\u03b7\u00a0DERM.S.A.<\/strong>. the hotel\u00a0Semiramis<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0Amstel<\/strong>\u00a0free<\/strong>. This year the sponsor of the digital promotion of the race is the marketing company\u00a0Dingo\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0and sponsor of the race abroad is the\u00a0\u00a0ANT1 Satellite.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rhodes Marathon is going up a level higher with the presence of a truly great runner in the race that will take place on Sunday 14 April. It is Bernard Chirchir, [...]<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3608,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/3608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}