The 8th Sarajevo Half Marathon – Biggest International Sports Event in BiH
The 8th Sarajevo
Half Marathon, 21.1km long, is organized by The Marathon Association and gathered about 1.300 participants from thirty
countries - which is a current record.
This project,
who’s original idea was the contribution to the International Day Without Cars,
has become an respectable international and biggest sports event in Bosnia and
Herzegovina. Confirmation for this is a record number of participants.
In addition to
practicing a healthy lifestyle, the event educates citizens about the importance of protection of the
environment. Traffic in Sarajevo was stopped for three hours, which has reduced
CO2 emissions significantly.
This year as
well, Ekopak provided waste bins for participants to dispose packaging from water and other beverages.
At this way, the environmental part of the event is enhanced and Ekopak enabled
that all collected packaging waste, instead at the Sarajevo Landfill, end up to
the recycling.
The winners of
the 8th Sarajevo Half Marathon are Stanly
Kipruto from Kenya and Olivera Jevtić from Serbia. Second and third place in
the men's competition were won by the Hungarians, last year's winner Tamas Nagy
and Lajos Berec. In the women's competition behind Jevtić came Nikolina Šuškić from Croatia and Tamsin
Wilson from Great Britain.