Regardless of the rain falling over the southern coastal metropolis of Larnaca, roughly 7,500 individuals from 72 international locations, together with Ministers, diplomats and ambassadors, participated within the 4th Radisson Blu Worldwide Marathon which completed within the metropolis’s well-known promenade.
Annita Demetriou, President of the Home of Representatives expressed satisfaction over the truth that the marathon was held for one more 12 months and particularly after final 12 months’s disruption attributable to the COVID pandemic. “I feel the participation present how a lot the folks wanted this occasion,” she added.
International Minister Nikos Christodoulides took half within the occasion with a 68-person group below the banner “MFAandFriends,” comprising ambassadors, diplomats from international diplomatic missions to Cyprus, and MFA employees.
Athlete with impaired imaginative and prescient runs the marathon on his personal
On this 12 months’s Marathon included Giorgos Bellos, a Greek runner with 95% impaired visibility, who for the primary time accomplished the marathon with out his aide operating by his aspect. As an alternative, he was carrying a digicam which with the help of the Cyta community was broadcasting the route stay to his coach who guided him alongside the way in which.
Describing the expertise operating on his personal as “superior,” he added that he was free as a younger child. “I might do it time and again” he mentioned.
The Radisson Blu Marathon featured seven routes, the Marathon, half-Marathon, 10, 5 km company route, 5-km particular person route, the McDonald’sΤΜ Teenagers Race 2,5km and the Enjoyable Race 1km for adults.