By Tricitynews
Chandigarh 22nd
Jan, 2020:- To give the
message of De-addiction on the occasion of Republic Day, the Gillco Group and
Urban Dive events are going to organize the Punjab Winter Half Marathon on 26
January. The competition will include hundreds of runners from the states of
Punjab, Himachal, Jammu and Delhi. This marathon has a category of 5 km, 10 km,
21 km. Women, men, children can participate in this open competition, whose
minimum age will be 10 years.
The
competition will be held at Sector 126 Gillco Park Hills on Airport Road. In
this competition, the 21 km race will be held at 6 am, the 10 km race is 6:40
and the 5 km race will be at 7 pm. Runners participating in this competition
can get their registration online till 22 January and offline by 24 January. At
the same time, 76-year-old marathon ambassador Amar Chauhan also known as
golden Sikh who has won 78 gold medals and has run 89 marathons across the
world so far, will join the marathon to complete his 90th marathon and will
include event facilitator Sourav Kapoor who is an ultra-runner.
Executive
Director of the Gillco Group Tejpreet Singh Gill, said that the Gillco Group is
organizing a Punjab Winter Half Marathon Competition to make people aware of
the drug addiction spread across Punjab. Which will give a message to the
masses on how drug addiction across Punjab is spreading and how to fight back?
For which the organizers and the Gillco Group have made full preparations. We
hope that this marathon will make people more and more aware.
Director of
Urban Dive Events, Aseem Girdhar said that this marathon is a small effort to
attract the youth of Punjab away from drugs and towards fitness. We hope that
people will support us in this initiative by participating in the marathon.
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