The 2023 Zhengkai Marathon will be held at 8:30 am on April 16, 2023.

The 2023 Zhengkai Marathon will include full marathons for men and women, half marathons for men and women, five-kilometer mini marathons, parent-child marathons and couples marathons, including full marathons for men and women, and full marathons for men and women. The four events of the half marathon will be held on Zhengkai Avenue. The gun will be fired on Zhengkai Avenue at 8:30 on April 16, 2023. The starting point is located in the Baisha Service Area of ??Zhengkai Avenue, and the half marathon end point is located in Jianyehua. Friendship Brothers Movie Town, the full marathon finish line is located in Longting Park, Kaifeng City.

The number of participants in the 2023 Zhengkai Marathon is 49,000, including 13,000 quotas for the full marathon, 16,000 quotas for the half marathon, five-kilometer marathon, including parent-child and couple marathons . The number of entries for the project is 20,000.

The origin of the Zhengkai Marathon

On August 6, 2006, a post titled "Initiative on Holding the Zheng-Bian International Marathon" aroused widespread concern among people in Kaifeng and Zhengzhou. focus on. Wang Xiangyang, who was walking along the route of Zhengkai Avenue on the first day, and Zheng Jinsong, who used the online name "Ban Yue Da Ge" and "Suifeng Yuan" on the Internet, posted this "sudden idea" initiative on the Dahe Forum, and it gained a lot of attention on the Internet. spread quickly. The major media actively intervened in order to promote this idea.

With the full support of the Zhengzhou and Bian municipal governments, and the joint promotion of various media, tens of thousands of people signed, the two governments submitted letters of support, and the preparatory committee was established. Everything was ready. , only awaiting approval from the State Sports General Administration. After more than five months of hard work and anticipation, on February 15, 2007, news finally came that made the citizens of Zhengzhou and Bianzhou happy: the Zhengzhou-Bian International Marathon was approved to be held.