Porto Half Marathon: run beacuse you can

The twelfth edition of Porto Half Marathon is one of the races to look forward this year in Porto. The starting pistol will be on 16th September, at 10 am.

This sports event should bring together 12 to 13 thousand participants, from 40 different nationalities.

The half marathon consist of 21.097 metres between Avenida Paiva Couceiro (under the Bridge of Freixo) and the garden of Calém (Fluvial), alongside the river Douro, and a mini-marathon of six kilometres.

Due to this sports event there will be traffic constraints.

Top-level foreign athletes include Geofrey Kusuro, from Uganda, Jida Imane Merga, from Ethiopia, and Titu Mbishei, from Kenya.

At national level, Portuguese athletes Rui Pedro Silva, José Moreira and Hélder Santos, from Sporting, and Daniel Pinheiro, from Águas de Alvelos, will try to counteract the Kenyan hegemony.

For the first time in this event, "The Positive Egoism Movement will provide people with special needs the opportunity to enter the race", as stated by race director Jorge Teixeira to Lusa.

A team from the IAAF (International Athletics Federation) will be present at the event to assess the allocation of the Bronze Label to Porto Half marathon. If so, this race can be included in the International Association of Athletics Federations official calendar in 2019, as one of the best half marathons in the world.