Wings for Life World Run:
Organisers expect thousands for 2016 Kakheti charity race
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Are you keen to join a public sporting event in the midst of eastern Georgia's beautiful vineyards and support a global charity cause at the same time?
If this sounds like something you’re interested in, sign up now for the 2016 Wings for Life World Run and join thousands of others in Georgia for the annual charity run around the lush Kakheti surroundings in Lopota Gorge.
This year on May 8 amateur and professional runners in Georgia will line up and run alongside tens of thousands of others in races held simultaneously in 34 countries to raise awareness and funds for research into finding a cure for spinal cord injuries.
Some of the runners who have signed up for this year’s Wings for Life World Run pose at the training centre in Kakheti. Photo by Nikoloz Paniashvili/Wings for Life World Run.
The Wings for Life World Run will begin simultaneously all over the world and involve runners and wheelchair competitors. The World Run race is the largest charity event in world sport history. Georgia has cemented its place as a regular participant country after being involved for the past two years.
Instead of a traditional static finish line, competitors must run for as long as they can along a designated route until they’re passed by an advancing ‘catcher car’, at this point their race is over.
The Wings for Life World Run will be held in Kakheti region of eastern Georgia. Screenshot from Wings for Life World Run.
The final contestant to be passed by the ‘catcher car’ will be crowned the winner.
In addition to the run itself, a special Wings for Life World Run village will be set up at the Kakheti race start-line, where live concerts, food and beverage and a big screen will entertain visitors and screen a "global broadcast of the race”, said organisers.
Participants run in the 2015 Wings for Life World Run in Kakheti, Georgia. Photo by Nikoloz Paniashvili/Wings for Life World Run.
The run will begin at 3pm local time at the turning point to Lopota Lake on the Telavi-Kvareli Highway.
Registration for the Georgia event is now open and will remain open until May 4. The run is limited to 5,000 participants who must pay a 30 GEL entry fee. All money raised from entry fees will be donated to researching for a cure of spinal cord injuries.
You can sign up for the Georgia event of the Wings for Life World Run on the official event website here.
See highlights of last year’s Wings for Life World Run in Kakheti, Georgia below:
Thousands of people have gathered in Kakheti, Georgia’s popular wine tourism destination to join the Wings for Life World Run today.
One of the world’s largest charity events kicked off in Georgia’s today where runners of all abilities paced the pavement to raise money for research into spinal cord injuries.
In less than an hour’s time thousands of people in Georgia will join in the largest charity running event in the world’s sporting history. Some will run, others will jog or walk, or even race in a wheelchair.
A Georgian athlete confined to a wheelchair has proven he’s one of the strongest of them all after triumphing at the World Arm Wrestling and Para-Arm Wrestling Championship today.
Georgia will host a dozen of some of the most anticipated international sports events throughout this year in an initiative encompassing cities and towns across the country within the Check in Georgia governmental project.
Thousands of Georgians and tourists flocked to Georgia’s Kakheti region to take part in the Wings for Life World Run – a one-off event which took place simultaneously around the world.
Four participants emerged as winners of the Wings for Life World Run under sunny weather in Georgia’s winemaking Kakheti province on Sunday.
Two service members of Georgian armed forces, a rescuer from the country’s Emergency Management Service and an award-winning teacher will be goodwill ambassadors for this year’s Wings for Life World Run charity event in the country this coming spring.
Over 1,000 participants turned up for this year’s Wings for Life charity run edition in Georgia, with the country joining the race’s worldwide events on Sunday.
Georgia will join Wings For Life World Run, a global charity event held in hundreds of locations across the world, for the 10th time next month, with thousands of participants expected to join the contest in the country's eastern Kakheti region.