Press Conference Highlights - Monday, 27th March 2006
2006-03-27
Rüdiger Otto
(Managing Director of SCC-RUNNING)
„The number of participants of the Vattenfall BERLIN HALF MARATHON will
increase once more. We expect about 20,000 participants – in 1998 we had 3,500.
This year we don’t celebrate a jubilee, but 25 years ago the history of the Vattenfall
BERLIN HALFMARATHON started.”
Mark
Milde
(Race-Director)
„We’ve got 18,893 entries from 67 nations so far and we are more than
happy with it. It will be once more a real
festival. Most entries at the Vattenfall BERLIN HALF MARATHON come from the
runners of the half marathon distance – a total of 15,937. The number of female
runners increased again. 30 per cent of our participants are female runners who
will run on the various distances on Sunday. Despite many construction sites in
Berlin we were able to maintain
our start and finish areas. Furthermore the course will be leading through the Potsdam Square. One reason for
our top runner from the USA, Deena Kastor, to
run in Berlin is that we have
additional official timekeepers at different points on the course. So we are
able to get official records. She will try to break the 10 miles US record as
well as the 20 k US record. So it
might be that we will have three US records in total
on Sunday.“
