Participation in the Kazan Marathon – 2018
On May 20, 2018, in the capital of Tatarstan on the Millennium Square, the largest running start of the Tatarstan sports calendar Kazan Marathon-2018 took place.
This year about 10 thousand people from 28 countries of the world came to participate in the Kazan Marathon, they were able to overcome 4 distances to choose from: 3 km, 10 km, 21.1 km and 42.2 km.
The President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, the general producer of the sports TV channel "Match-TV" Tina Kandelaki, as well as the heads of the ministries and departments of the Republic of Tatarstan took part in the mass race.
The Minister of Justice of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustem Zagidullin, and the leading specialist of the Activity Assurance Department of Justice of the Peace Tatyana Sviridova, supported the action by taking part in the 10 km race.
In a separate race took part wheelchair athletes, who in less than an hour covered a distance of 21.1 km.
As part of the social program AK BARS Bank Kazan Marathon-2018 traditionally attracted the attention of the partnership project with the House of Ronald McDonald, which for the third consecutive year formed team to participate in the race. All funds raised from the application fees, and this time a symbolic check amounted to 1 million 300 thousand rubles, go to support the free family hotel "Ronald McDonald's House" in Kazan at the Children's Republican Clinical Hospital of the Republic of Tatarstan.