Brașov Running Festival
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Looking northward down 13 December Street, with the west end of the race course visible[lower-alpha 1]
DateSeptember
LocationBrașov, Romania
Event typeRoad
Distance10K, 5K
Established2021 (2021)[3]
Course records
Official sitehttps://brasovrun.ro/

The Brașov Running Festival is an annual road-based 10K run hosted by Brașov, Romania, since 2021.[5][3] The race is a World Athletics Elite Label Road Race.[6] A 5K run is also offered earlier in the day.[3]

In both 2021 and 2022, both the male and female Romanian 10K all-comers records were broken.[4]

History

The inaugural race was held on 26 September 2021.[5][7] The 10K was won by Kenyan runners Peter Mwaniki Aila and Nelly Jepchumba, with finish times of 28:39 and 32:11, respectively.[7][lower-alpha 2] Both victors had set new Romanian 10K all-comers records, with Alia's performance being considered amongst the top 50 in the world at the time, and Jepchumba's amongst the top 30.[7][4]

The 2022 edition of the race, held on 25 September, saw the breaking of both Romanian 10K all-comers records again.[4] Kenyan runners Nicholas Kimeli and Sheila Chepkirui won the 10K, with finish times of 26:51 and 30:07, respectively.[4] Kimeli's time established him as the fifth-fastest 10K runner ever, and Chepkirui missed breaking the women-only 10K world record by six seconds.[4]

Course

External image
image icon Course map of 10K in 2022[2]
2022 winner and course record holder (as of 2022) Nicholas Kimeli (pictured here in Doha in 2019)

The races are run on a loop with a length of 3,494 m (11,463 ft).[3][lower-alpha 3] All the races use the same finish line, but their starting points vary depending on the length of the race.[3]

The course is located north of the main train station, in the Tractorul neighbourhood of Brașov.[2][9][lower-alpha 4] The 10K begins on Camil Petrescu Street.[2] Runners first head east before turning onto a minor path parallel to Camil Petrescu Street.[2][9] After about 150 m (500 ft) on that path, racers make a sharp left turn onto Zaharia Stancu Street.[2][9] After passing by the largest shopping mall in Transylvania, the course turns left onto 13 December Street and heads south for about 300 m (1000 ft) before turning left again, back onto Camil Petrescu Street, to complete the loop.[2][7][9][10] Runners of the 10K complete just under three of these loops, finishing on Camil Petrescu Street slightly west of where they started.[2]

Winners

Key:    Course record (in bold)

Ed. Date Male Winner Time Female Winner Time Rf.
1 2021.09.26  Peter Mwaniki Aila (KEN) 28:39[lower-alpha 2]  Nelly Jepchumba (KEN) 32:11 [7]
2 2022.09.25  Nicholas Kimeli (KEN) 26:51  Sheila Chepkirui (KEN) 30:07 [4]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The mall in the right background is immediately to the north of the course's northwest corner, while the Lidl store in the right foreground is located about 250 m (800 ft) south of the course's southwest corner.[1][2]
  2. 1 2 The Association of International Marathons and Distance Races and World Athletics both consider Aila's finish time to be 28:40.[8][4]
  3. ↑ The loop used in 2021 had a length of 3,520 m (11,550 ft).[5]
  4. ↑ The neighbourhood's name is a reference to Uzina Tractorul Brașov, a former tractor factory in the area.[7]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.google.com/maps/@45.669,25.609,16z
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 https://brasovrun.ro/en/
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 https://brasovrun.ro/en/regulations/
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-label-road-races/news/kipkorir-chepkirui-brasov-running-festival
  5. 1 2 3 "Archive.ph". Archived from the original on 2021-10-27. Retrieved 2022-10-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ↑ https://www.worldathletics.org/Competitions/world-athletics-label-road-races/calendar/2022
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 https://bzb.ro/stire/veniti-din-kenya-au-bifat-recorduri-de-top-mondial-la-10k-ul-de-la-brasov-a167469
  8. ↑ https://aims-worldrunning.org/articles/2106-records-fall-at-the-brasov-running-festival.html
  9. 1 2 3 4 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tractorul,+Brașov,+Romania/@45.666,25.611,15z/
  10. ↑ https://www.radiobrasovfm.ro/stire/restricii-de-circulaie-in-acest-weekend-in-zona-coresi-pentru-desfaurarea-competiiei-braov-running-festival/3590771/6221/5
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