Kyiv Half Marathon

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, an annual series of races held in Ukrainian cities.[2]

Kyiv Half Marathon
DateApril
LocationKyiv, Ukraine
Event typeRoad
DistanceHalf marathon, 5K run
Primary sponsorWork.ua
Established2011 (2011)
OrganizerRun Ukraine Running League
Course recordsMen's: 1:02:56 (2018)
Ethiopia Tesfaye Anbesa
Women's: 1:10:53 (2019)
Kenya Daisy Kimeli
Official siteKyiv Half Marathon
Participants2,169 finishers (2021)
4,829 (2019)

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
image icon 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. Year Men's winner Time[lower-alpha 2] Women's winner Time[lower-alpha 2] Rf.
2022canceled due to Russia-Ukraine War[12]
10 2021  Bohdan-Ivan Horodyskyy (UKR) 1:03:41  Yevheniya Prokofyeva (UKR) 1:14:11 [13]
2020canceled due to coronavirus pandemic[5]
9 2019  Bernard Sang (KEN) 1:03:42  Daisy Kimeli (KEN) 1:10:53
8 2018  Tesfaye Anbesa (ETH) 1:02:56  Viktoriya Kalyuzhna (UKR) 1:13:44 [14][15]
7 2017  Tesfaye Anbesa (ETH) 1:03:57  Belaynesh Tsegaye (ETH) 1:13:58 [16]
6 2016  Taras Salo (UKR) 1:04:41  Hanna Nosenko (UKR) 1:13:55 [14]
5 2015  Yuriy Rosyuk (UKR) 1:06:51  Vita Poteriuk (UKR) 1:19:52
4 2014  Taras Salo (UKR) 1:06:34  Olga Yarotska (UKR) 1:23:07
3 2013  Oleksandr Sitkovskyy (UKR) 1:05:33  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. h:m:s

References
  1. "World Athletics Label Road Races". www.worldathletics.org.
  2. "RunUkraine | We are Road Runners". Archived from the original on 22 August 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  3. "8th Nova Poshta Kyiv Half Marathon 2018 started a new page in the running history of Ukraine |". KYIV HALF MARATHON. 22 April 2018.
  4. "Kyiv half marathon has received IAAF BRONZE LABEL | Work.ua Kyiv Half Marathon". 26 July 2017.
  5. "The 10th WORK.UA KYIV HALF MARATHON to be held in the online format | Work.ua Kyiv Half Marathon". 15 July 2020.
  6. "Official statement from Run Ukraine regarding the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak | Work.ua Kyiv Half Marathon". 5 March 2020.
  7. "Official statement from Run Ukraine regarding COVID-19 outbreak from 11 March 2020 | Work.ua Kyiv Half Marathon". 11 March 2020.
  8. "FAQ regarding change of the date of Kyiv half marathon | Work.ua Kyiv Half Marathon". 11 March 2020.
  9. "Russian and Belarusian runners are banned from the events | Work.ua K…". Archived from the original on 21 March 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  10. "12th WORK.UA KYIV HALF MARATHON 2022 has been postponed indefinitely …". Archived from the original on 20 March 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  11. "Routes | Work.ua Kyiv Half Marathon". 31 March 2017. Archived from the original on 9 October 2019.
  12. All events of the Ukrainian Majors Running League 2022 are postponed
  13. "2021 Kyiv Half Marathon results". my.raceresult.com. 19 September 2021.
  14. "Archive results |". KYIV HALF MARATHON. 26 October 2015.
  15. "Viktoria KALYUZHNA | Profile". www.worldathletics.org.
  16. "Archive results 2017 |". NOVA POSHTA KYIV HALF MARATHON. 26 October 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
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