 6,
January, 2003. About 700 run lovers took part
in the XII Christmas half-marathon (330 men and 49 women started
the 21,1 km distance, non-competitive 7 km run gathered 320
enthusiasts). Omsk winter run has never witnessed such a considerable
number of participants. More than 650 of them are citizens of
Omsk and Omsk oblast, which is another record of mass participation
during 12-year-old history of the event.
Sustained struggle between the athletes at the 21,1 km distance
was crowned with a race course record.
The winner of the previous Christmas
Half-marathon Yevgheny Lykov (Anzhero-Sudzhensk, Kemerovo oblast)
immediately caught leadership,  but
closely following him Anatoly Antonov (Tcherlak, Omsk oblast)
and Pavel Broda (Kazakhstan)
did not allow him to repeat
the previous success. As a result, our guest from Kostanay,
Kazakhstan Pavel Broda bore the palm in the marathon with the
result 1:10.41. Anatoly Antonov with the result 1:10.44 took
the second step of the pedestal, Yevgheny Lykov became the third.
Irina Sukhorukova from Omsk won the victory among women
(1;43.36), Irina Zikranets was the second to cross the finishline
(1:44.03). The third prize went to Marina Skuratovich(1:44.35).
Record high for winter run temperature
- 8 degrees below zero - did not saisfy only foreign
participants from Australia, Austria, Belgium and Great Britain.No
wonder, they came to Siberia for extreme cold.
 
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