North Sea Beach Marathon
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North Sea Beach Marathon is a annual Danish marathon which takes place at the westcoast of Jutland. It takes place in the beginning of July, every year. It is one of the only running events in the world, where you only run on sand. Beside the classical marathon distance, there is also a half-marathon, 10 km and 5 km.
Running on sand is very demanding on your body, especially when you fininsh in Hvide Sande where the sand feels like deep snow. This means that you should not get to high hopes for a personal record. The timelimit for the marathon is 7 hours.
The arrangers invited Lance Armstrong to participate in the 2007 event, but he decided to turn down the offer.
[edit] Statistics
[edit] Records
- Marathon men - 2.36.46 - Jens Henrik Jensen - Denmark (2004)
- Marathon women - 3.00.09 - Joanna Gront - Poland (2005)
- half-marathon men - 1.08.51 - Augustin Togom - Kenya (2005)
- half-marathon women - 1.20.22 - Nina Sørensen- Germany (2005)
- 10 km men - 33.59 - Enno Heidergott - Germany (2002)
- 10 km women - 38.16 - Charlotte Larsen - Denmark (2005)
- 5 km men - 16.58 - Jesper Faurschou - Denmark (2002)
- 5 km women - 20.01 - Lisbeth Rasmussen - Denmark (2002)
[edit] The fastest in 2006
- Men marathon - David Menjo - 2.53.00
- Women marathon - Joanna Chmiel-Gront - 3.12.56
- Men halvmarathon - Torben Juul - 01.24.25
- Women halvmarathon - Marianne Nors Karstensen - 01.42.37
- Men 10 km - Bjarne Mathiasen - 42.11
- Women 10 km - Katrine Toft Væsel - 49.20
- Men 5 km - Aksel Larsen - 21.53
- Women 5 km - Susanne Jørgensen - 26.30
