Starting at 11 AM UTC on May 3, runners will take their mark on the starting line in 35 cities around the world including Cape Town, Santiago, Melbourne and Munich and embark on a run to raise money for spinal cord injury research.
Runners and wheelchair athletes of all abilities were able to register for the Wings for Life World Run for a chance to compete against the likes of actors, models, TV stars and Olympic champions.
Stars include Olympic skiing champion Aksel Lund Svindal, Formula One ace Mark Webber and Bollywood actor Ayushmaan Khurrana.
World-renowned endurance runners include Christian Schiester of Austria and three time 100km-world champion Giorgio Calcaterra of Italy.
The list also includes Ryan Sandes of South Africa, the first runner in history to win all of the four Desert races, a series of races across the Atacama Desert in Chile, the Gobi Desert in China, the Sahara Desert in Egypt and a week long, 250 km foot race through Antarctica.
Reigning Ironman Triathalon world champion Sebastian Kienle, former Ironman world champion Frederik van Lierde of Belgium and former Ironman European champion Camilla Pedersen of Denmark will also take part.
Models include Patricia Kaiser of Austria, Mariam Sagoto of Georgia, David Urankar of Slovakia, Ke-Tong Lin of Taiwan and Italy's Fiammetta Cicogna.
Actors and TV personalities include German Moto GP host Alex Hofmann, German actor Matthias Schweighöfer, Italian comedian Giovanni Storti and Vanessa Haywood of South Africa.
It's not just any footrace: there's no set distance, and it finishes when the "Catcher Cars" that follow the runners catch and pass the last one.
The Catcher Cars work thanks to technology that activates when runners pass them at the start of the race and logs each runner's distance upon passing them.
Being passed by a Catcher Car means you've run a great race, but now it's over.
The Catcher Cars are scheduled to start a half hour after the starting gun goes off, at a speed of 15 km/hr (9.32 mph), and their pace will increase incrementally with each hour that passes until 4:30 AM UTC, when they will be zipping along at 35 km/hr (21.75 mph).
Event organizers emphasize that no participant should be intimidated by the list of celebrities and highly decorated athletes -- the more the merrier, and all the more support for the cause.
Participants can run as individuals or create teams with their friends.
Starting guns will go off unanimously in each of the 35 cities -- regardless of what time 11 AM UTC means for you -- meaning some runners will be racing at night.
Watch a video: www.wingsforlifeworldrun.com/fr/en/actu/what-is-the-wings-for-life-world-run-1109/
Wings for Life is a non-profit dedicated to funding research in search of a cure for spinal cord injury and 100 percent of proceeds from the Wings for Life World Run will go to the foundation.
Runners ready to take on the world with Wings for Life
Starting at 11 AM UTC on May 3, runners will take their mark on the starting line in 35 cities around the world including Cape Town, Santiago, Melbourne and Munich and embark on a run to raise money for spinal cord injury research.
Runners and wheelchair athletes of all abilities were able to register for the Wings for Life World Run for a chance to compete against the likes of actors, models, TV stars and Olympic champions.
Stars include Olympic skiing champion Aksel Lund Svindal, Formula One ace Mark Webber and Bollywood actor Ayushmaan Khurrana.
World-renowned endurance runners include Christian Schiester of Austria and three time 100km-world champion Giorgio Calcaterra of Italy.
The list also includes Ryan Sandes of South Africa, the first runner in history to win all of the four Desert races, a series of races across the Atacama Desert in Chile, the Gobi Desert in China, the Sahara Desert in Egypt and a week long, 250 km foot race through Antarctica.
Reigning Ironman Triathalon world champion Sebastian Kienle, former Ironman world champion Frederik van Lierde of Belgium and former Ironman European champion Camilla Pedersen of Denmark will also take part.
Models include Patricia Kaiser of Austria, Mariam Sagoto of Georgia, David Urankar of Slovakia, Ke-Tong Lin of Taiwan and Italy's Fiammetta Cicogna.
Actors and TV personalities include German Moto GP host Alex Hofmann, German actor Matthias Schweighöfer, Italian comedian Giovanni Storti and Vanessa Haywood of South Africa.
It's not just any footrace: there's no set distance, and it finishes when the "Catcher Cars" that follow the runners catch and pass the last one.
The Catcher Cars work thanks to technology that activates when runners pass them at the start of the race and logs each runner's distance upon passing them.
Being passed by a Catcher Car means you've run a great race, but now it's over.
The Catcher Cars are scheduled to start a half hour after the starting gun goes off, at a speed of 15 km/hr (9.32 mph), and their pace will increase incrementally with each hour that passes until 4:30 AM UTC, when they will be zipping along at 35 km/hr (21.75 mph).
Event organizers emphasize that no participant should be intimidated by the list of celebrities and highly decorated athletes -- the more the merrier, and all the more support for the cause.
Participants can run as individuals or create teams with their friends.
Starting guns will go off unanimously in each of the 35 cities -- regardless of what time 11 AM UTC means for you -- meaning some runners will be racing at night.
Watch a video: www.wingsforlifeworldrun.com/fr/en/actu/what-is-the-wings-for-life-world-run-1109/
Wings for Life is a non-profit dedicated to funding research in search of a cure for spinal cord injury and 100 percent of proceeds from the Wings for Life World Run will go to the foundation.
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