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The inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships was originally envisioned as a two-day event.
World Athletics has announced a revamped schedule for the World Athletics Road Running Championships Riga 23 where the world’s best milers, 5km runners and half-marathoners will compete in a single day.
World Athletics and the Riga Local Organising Committee (LOC) have agreed to introduce a more compact programme, which will see the elite races and mass races held on the same day, October 1, at the championships.
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The inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships was originally envisioned as a two-day event, with the new road mile and 5km road championships to be held on Saturday, September 30, and the half marathon races on Sunday, October 1, but in a move to create a more exciting build-up for fans, all events have been brought together with the mass races on one day.
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said: “As preparations for the World Road Running Championships have evolved, it has become apparent that the event will work better as a single-day event in Riga, both for local organisers and for broadcast."
"It will also give recreational runners the opportunity to be fully immersed in the day, running before and after our elite runners, and will create the festival atmosphere that we want to see to celebrate road running at every level.”
The new timetable begins on the morning of October 1 with the mass races over 5km and the road mile to be followed by the elite races over the same distances. Then attention will turn to the half marathon distance with the elite races to be followed by the mass race.
This unique global running festival will not only crown the world road mile, 5km, and half marathon champions but is also expected to feature thousands of amateur runners, kids, and families from up to 100 countries participating alongside elite runners.
Aigars Nords, Head of the Local Organising Committee, commented: “With three months to go to the inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships in Riga, Latvia, we have already attracted recreational runners from more than 50 countries all over the world."
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"Saturday, September 30 will see thousands of kids and families warm up for the championships during Kids’ Day, while Sunday, October 1, will provide a unique opportunity for everyone to earn their mass race medals.”
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