2022 New Taipei City Wan Jin Shi Marathon

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2022 New Taipei City Wan Jin Shi Marathon
2022 New Taipei City Wan Jin Shi Marathon
Date	20 March 2022
Location	Wanli District, New Taipei City; Republic of China (Taiwan)
Event type	Road running
Distance	Challenge run（10KM）; Marathon（42.195KM）
Primary sponsor	Fubon Financial Holding Co.; Mizuno; Acer Inc.; Pacific Construction Co., Ltd.
Established	6:30 AM
Course records	Challenge run：; Lee Li-chun (Men)：31:40; Lai Ting-Hsuan (Women)：36:09; Marathon：; Kimutai Felix (Men)：2:18:24; Gedefa Motu Megersa (Women)：2:49:17
Official site	https://wanjinshi-marathon.com.tw

The 2022 New Taipei City Wan Jin Shi Marathon（Chinese: 2022年新北市萬金石馬拉松, Japanese: 2022年新北市ワンジンシマラソン）was the twentieth edition of the annual marathon race in New Taipei City, the competition was held on Sunday 20 March 2022 and around 11,000 people join the races. The marathon events were won by Kenyan Felix Kimutai and Ethopian Motu Megersa, Taiwanese runners Chou Ting-Yin and Lee Jia-Mei were the domestic first place. [1][2]

Background

On 25 October 2021, New Taipei City Government held the registration announcement press conference, the logo and slogan of the 2022 race are first in public. The slogan is "One of Us".

Prize

Ranking/ Group	Marathon Unit: USD	Challenge run Unit: NTD
Champion	US$30,000[Note 1][Note 2]	NT$10,000
2nd	US$20,000	NT$9,000
3rd	US$10,000	NT$8,000
4th	US$5,000	NT$7,000
5th	US$4,000	NT$6,000
6th	US$3,000	NT$5,000
7th	US$2,000	NT$4,000
8th	US$1,500	NT$3,000
9th	US$1,200	NT$2,000
10th	US$1,000	NT$1,000
Remark	Top 3 in the marathon and challenge run was able to received a Garmin running smartwatch.

Invited elite runners

Men	Player	Nationality	Group	Personal best	World ranking
	Gizaw Bekele Megerssa	Ethiopia	Marathon	2:08:03	355
	Justus Kipkogei Kangogo	Kenya		2:13:34	360
	Felix Kimutai	Kenya		2:09:23	28
	Stephen Chebogut	Kenya		2:05:52	120
Women	Player	Nationality	Group	Personal best	World ranking
Women	Motu Megersa	Ethiopia	Marathon	2:27:48	403

Results

Media

New Taipei Sports Party

Finisher medal tunnel in the 2022 WJS Marathon expo

To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the race, New Taipei City Government, Sports Office named the marathon expo as "Go Pai! New Taipei Sports Party". There had a city image public art using wine basket and the tunnel of finisher medals in previous years WJS Marathon on this three day expo. [3][4]

Two professional basketball team set in New Taipei City (Kings, CTBC DEA) were also be invited in this expo, and held a small fan meeting.

Footnote

Annotation

Smash the race record is able to gain US$10,000 besides prize.
Marathon records：
Men is 2:11:17（Record smasher: Mathew Kipsaat from Kenya in 2019.）
Women is 2:34:08（Record smasher: Naomi Jepkogei Maiyo from Kenya in 2019.）

References

Wang Hung-kuo; James Lo; Lee Hsin-Yin. "Kenyan runner wins 2022 New Taipei City Wan Jin Shi Marathon". Focus Taiwan. Retrieved 2022-03-20.
Joanna. "【萬金石馬】「印帝」周庭印重返國內男子冠軍寶座！李佳玫逆風下摘國內女子后冠！". Running Biji. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
王峻昌. "新北最大運動派對3月17日至20日新莊體育館揪你入派". Newtalk News. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
曾佳俊. "新北萬金石路跑「運動派對」明起登場　20年獎牌隧道超吸睛". Apple Daily. Retrieved 2022-03-21.