A marathon morning for Lucknowites

Despite the pandemic, the Lucknow City Half Marathon, organised recently, witnessed an impressive turn out. People from all walks of life including bureaucrats, police officials, from the defence forces, ran in the marathon which had three categories of 21, 10 and 5 kilometers runs.

(L) Abhishek Mishra and Raghvendra Kumar Mishra (R) Gaurav Prakash (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)

Volunteers wearing gloves, face shields and masks and armed with hand sanitizers, helped the runners navigate the distance safely and without a hitch. People gathered at the 1090 Crossing at dawn to participate in the run.

(L) Sunil CK (R) Volunteers wore masks, face shileds and gloves at the event (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)

Shweta Singh (L) and Lalita Panday (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)

Organiser Iron Man Abhishek Mishra egged the runners on with his words. Naresh Rawat and Sweta Patel covered a distance of 21 kms easily followed by Sunil CK, Anjali Chaurasia coming in second and Mukesh Yadav and Balbinder Kaur following in the third place. The 5km run was successfully completed by Rajneesh Kumar and Harshita Shahi in first place followed by Rajkumar Pandit, Priti and Adarsh Kumar and Ankita Yadav in second and third places, respectively. The 5km run had Sourabh Singh Yadav and Shraddha Dwivedi coming in first and Nishant Sinha and Swati Goel coming second and Akshay Mehta and Suman Kachan clinching the third spot.

(L) Sapna Chattertee (R) Preeti Ahuja and Anil Kumar (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)

(L) Kunal Jethanandani (R) Chandan Singh (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)

(L) Abhinav Chavdhary (R) Dr Pooja Mishra (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)

(L) Maj Shubhanshu Mishra (R) Mansi (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)

(L) Neha Bhatt (R) Lucky Singh (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)

Mohit Saxena and Deeksha Singh (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)
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