Run Greece 2024: Ideal premiere in Heraklion
In the relevant announcement of SEGAS it is stated: "SEGAS and RUN GREECE keep up with the needs of the modern era, with new cities on the calendar, renewed image, modern branding and new tasteful medals.
All these new touches add more weight and breathe new life into the popular race series", emphasized the president of SEGAS, Sofia Sakorafa, who was present at the race. In fact, he announced that 20% of the revenue from the registrations will be given to the city's clubs, with estimates of an amount of more than 4,000 euros resulting from the more than 3,500 registered in the match.
The other cities that will host this year's RUN GREECE race will receive corresponding support, starting from Sunday, April 21 in Nafplio, which was added to the calendar this year." At RUN GREECE HERAKLEIO, races of 5 and 10 km, as well as the 1,100-meter children's route, were held in the area around the Pankriti stadium.
The winners per event:
5 km Petros Kouroupakis (AO Sitiakos) 17.09
Alexandra Smyrnakis (Pegasus) 20.58
10 km Ioannis Papaleonidas (AO Triton Chalkida) 35.22
Emily Protogeri 42.38
The javelin champion, Yannis Kyriazis, who is currently in Crete for preparation, and the former long distance champion, Stella Pilatou from Heraklion, attended and greeted the starts.
RUN GREECE HERACLEIO was honored with the presence of the Regional Governor of Crete, Stavros Arnautakis, the Mayor of Heraklion, Alexis Kalokairinos, the governor of SEGAS Giorgos Giatroudakis, the treasurer of the federation, Yiannis Lioubas and together the board of EAS SEGAS Crete with the president Panagiotis Antonakakis to take part in the 5 kilometer race as well!
The Deputy Regional Governor of Heraklion, Nikos Syrigonakis, the Deputy Regional Governor, Giorgos Pitsoulis, the Deputy Regional Governor for Sports, Leonidas Terzis, and all thematic Deputy Regional Governors also gave their "present". And also from the Municipality of Heraklion the Deputy Mayor, Nikos Gialitakis, the Deputy Mayor for Sports, Yannis Tsapakis, as well as the Vice President of the Heraklion Sports Development Company, Aria Hourdakis, the President of EAKI, Menandros Pantelidis and the Vice President of Stoiximan, sponsor of SEGAS, Panos Konstantopoulos.
The athletics festival of Crete
EAS SEGAS of Crete, organized by the Region of Crete, held on Saturday, April 6, the traditional celebration of the island's athletics at the Galaxy Hotel. The athletes who climbed the podium in panhellenic championships in 2023 were honored, as well as their coaches and the associations that received medals in the rankings. At the event, the president of SEGAS, Sofia Sakorafa, was also honored by all the associations of Crete for the services she offers with her presence at the helm of the federation in the development and strengthening of classical sports. This year it was the turn of Traffic, while ERGO was also honored. Recognition of their contribution was also received by the associations of athletics judges and the organizations that support Greek sports and athletics in Crete. The event was attended by Mr. Arnautakis, Kalokairinos, Syrigonakis, Terzis, Tsapakis and Konstantopoulos.
