First Children’s Race to be held in Almaty

On May 19, the Central Park of Culture and Recreation will host Children’s race - sporting event for the youngest athletes in the framework of Almaty Marathon. Children from 3 to 14 years old can take part in the race.  

Children’s race for the first time will be held as a separate sporting event. 300 people have already been registered to participate. 

« The children’s race will become another event that will be held annually in the framework of Almaty Marathon, along with Spring, Summer, Women’s and other races. We regularly receive requests from participants of Almaty Marathon and races to organize events only for children or to admit to competitions participants under 10 years old. Therefore, we decided to conduct a race specifically for them. The distances are calculated taking into account the maximum convenience and security for overcoming them on their own even by the kids», - commented Saltanat Kazybayeva, director of Almaty Marathon.

There are three distances for the participants:

- 200 meters (3-4 years old),

- 500 meters (5-9 years old),

- 3 kilometers (10-14 years old).

Running gives children a lot of positive bonuses: promotion of physical health in general, promotion of sleep, appetite and brain activity, improvement of stress tolerance. In addition, the overcoming of the laziness during the running can contribute to do well at school. It becomes easier for school children to do homework. Of course, by adding elements of the game, we can make running interesting for the kids. Thus, you can encourage your child to become a regular runner. Regularity and planning of the running is important. Only then it can have a positive impact on the body of young athletes.             

 «We will be happy if our event gives young runners bright impressions, and becomes a start for regular running. Running long distances helps to improve brain activity and is a kind of meditation. There were cases when during the jogs people came up with interesting ideas that later became world hits. So, one of the Google’s employees came the idea of making Goggle Glass during the jog. I am sure that among our participants there are those who will be the authors of world trends”, - said Saltanat Kazybayeva.

Start Schedule:

07.00 – Assembly time for participants.

08.00 - Start of the race for 200 m. The estimated time - 10 minutes.

08.10 - Start of the race for 500 m. The estimated time - 20 minutes.

08.30 - Start of the race for 3 km. The estimated time - 40 minutes.

The organizers of the competition are the Corporate Fund "Courage to Be First", the World Class Almaty Fitness Club and Science and Education Foundation named after Academician Shahmardan Yessenov.