Everyone seems to be familiar with marathon and strawberry, but what about combining them together?

In the recent 2023 Nanjing Lishui Half Marathon, they took a quite innovative move by attaching the local strawberry industry to this passionate race, turning this fierce competition into fabulous chance to admire an impressive spring vibrancy of Lishui.

Except for some bottles of water or other supplements, they set up several special supply stations to offer bunches of strawberry to competitors. Apart from this, the race was also filled with other elements of strawberry, thus making people to give it a lovely nickname: The strawberry marathon.

As soon as the starting pistol went off, thousands of athletes from all over the world began their journey and immersed themselves in the excitement of running while enjoying the charming view of WuXiang mountain, kicking off the 2023 Nanjing Lishui Half Marathon.Mesele Kiros Lema from Ethiopia won the men’s race and Huang Xin from Nanjing won the women’s title.

Apart from the Lishui Half Marathon, 2023 Earth Hour Low-carbon Charity Walk of Nanjing Marathon Committee was also held successfully. What’s more, starting from this March, Nanjing Marathon and a series of running events like women’s half marathon, Half Marathon on Nanjing Eco Hi-tech Island have returned one by one, attracting more athletes to sprint off in these sporting events and enjoy an impressive allure and a rapid development of Nanjing.

Thanks to the arousing development and the comprehensive advantage of hosting, Nanjing has been witnessing a considerable increase regarding to its urban influence and event’s reputation in the past few years, with more and more major sports events both domestic and abroad continuing to take place in this city. In 2023, 72 events will be held in Nanjing, including some international competitions such as fencing and cycling.