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IAAF World Half Marathon Championships - Nanning - CHN
DATES OF EVENT
Saturday 16 October 2010
EVENT AWARDED
November 2008, Monaco
LOCATION OF EVENT
Nanning (CHN)
NANNING FACTS
Population - 6.84 Million
Climate - Average temperature approximately 25.3C in October.
Official airport - Nanning WuXu International Airport (NNG), 32 kms from the City Centre.
Description - In history, Nanning, as a border city in south China, had close economic and cultural exchanges with Indo-China, and the countries and regions in southeast Asia. Backed onto the vast land of south-west China, facing southeast Asia and linking with Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, Nanning is now the political, economic and financial centre of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and an important place in the thoroughfare that links south with north and east with west China.
Altitude - Approximately 80M m
Competition Venue - City Centre, starting & finishing in Wuxiang Square.
ORGANISING MEMBER FEDERATION
Chinese Athletics Association
No 2 Tiyuguan Road,
Beijing 100763,
China
Tel: +86 10 8717 3441
Fax: +86 10 8718 3441
E-mail: chn@athletics.org.cn
Website: www.athletics.org.cn
President - Shijie DUAN
Vice-President & General Secretary - Chaoyi LUO
LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE (LOC)
Nanning Sports Bureau
No 62 Taoyuan Road
Nanning 530021
Guanxi
CHINA
Tel.: 86 771 219 1317 / 15
Fax: ---
E-mail:pandassyk@163.com
Website: ---
Honorary LOC Chairman - Shijie DUAN & Fangfang HUANG, Mayor of Nanning
LOC Chairman - Luo CHAOYI & Huansheng HUANG, Deputy Mayor of Nanning
Deputy LOC Chairman - Dawei WANG, Vice President & Treasurer CAA
General Secretary LOC - Weimin DENG, Deputy Gen Secretary of Nanning Municipal Government & Jing Suijun, Minister of Nanning Sports Bureau
DELEGATES
Organisational - Dahlan AL HAMAD (QAT)
Technical - David BEDFORD (GBR)
Press - Yannis NIKOLAOU (GRE)
Television - TBC
Medical / Anti-Doping - TBC
Jury of Appeal - TBC
ICROs - TBC
Road Race Measurer - Dave CUNDY (AUS)
TIMETABLE
TBC
PRIZE MONEY
(Paid by the IAAF)
Individual
1st US $30,000
2nd US $15,000
3rd US $10,000
4th US $ 7000
5th US $ 5000
6th US $ 3000
Teams
1st US $15,000
2nd US $12,000
3rd US $ 9000
4th US $ 7500
5th US $ 6000
6th US $ 3000
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