Nearly 7,400 runners in Polish leg of Wings for Life World Run
PR dla Zagranicy
Grzegorz Siwicki
05.05.2019 19:00
Almost 7,400 runners on Sunday took part in the Polish leg of this year’s Wings for Life World Run, which aims to raise funds for research into spinal cord injuries.
Tomasz Osmulski, the overall winner of the Polish leg of the 2019 Wings for Life World Run; and Agnieszka Kowalczyk, the best finisher among the women, in Poznań, western Poland, on Sunday. Photo: PAP/Jakub Kaczmarczyk
Tomasz Osmulski won the Polish leg of the global charity event, covering a distance of 55.5 kilometres in a race that has no fixed finish line and in which runners are chased by a car.
Agnieszka Kowalczyk, meanwhile, became the winner among the women, notching up 43.1 km in the run, which started off in the western city of Poznań.
The 2018 overall Polish winner, Dariusz Nożyński, won the US leg of the race this year, covering 51.1 km in Sunrise, Florida.
Meanwhile, Poland’s Wioletta Paduszyńska triumphed among the women competing in Sunrise, Florida, with 40.4 km.
Polish ultramarathoner Dominika Stelmach won the Brazil leg of the event, in Rio de Janeiro, and finished runner-up among the women worldwide, with 53.5 km.
Russia’s Ivan Motorin finished the international race with the best result globally on Sunday. Running in Turkey, he notched up 64.3 km.
The Wings for Life World Run is an annual international charity event that this year attracted a total of 120,000 competitors in 12 countries.
Runners are chased by a car that starts a half hour after the competitors with an initial speed of 14 kph. The race ends for a competitor when he or she is passed by the car.
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Source: TVN 24, PAP