The 5^th Sleemon Shaoxing Marathon 2022

Registration Guideline 

October, 2022

I. General Information

(I) Date: November 12, 2022 (Saturday)  

(II) Category

Men's and Women's Marathon (42.195km)

Men's and Women's Half Marathon (21.0975km)  

Men's and Women's Mini Run (6.5km)

(III) Entry Limit: 25,000 (10,000 for marathon, 10,000 for half marathon and 5,000 for mini run

(IV) Start Time: 7:30 a.m.

II. Registration

(I) Time

Stage 1: 10:00a.m. of Oct.10, 2022 ---5p.m. of Oct.12, 2022. 

(Note: Participants who have their 2021 fees refunded are welcome to regain their qualification make payment again, The rest can either choose to click the button “Continue my qualification” or “I’d like to get my fees back”.

Stage 2: 10:00a.m. of Oct.105 2022 --5p.m. of Oct.20, 2022. 

(II) Age requirement

1. Marathon: over 20 (born before Dec.31, 2002);

2. Half Marathon: over 16 (born before Dec.31 2006) ;

3. Mini Run: No requirement;

4.For any of the above category, minors under 18 (born after Dec.31, 2004) could participate only after being permitted by their guardians/legal representatives, who must sign online before minors can obtain race bags and participate. Make sure the info submitted is true and complete and valid, otherwise the participant has to bear responsibilities on his/her own.

(III) Physical Requirement

Marathon is a heavily loaded, high-intensive and long-distance sport, and is also a high-risk competitive event, hence it highly requires physical conditions. Participants ought to be in physical health under basis long-term practice or training in long distances. The LOC recommends all participants to take medical examinations (including ECG examination) in units of local counties or above level in the past year, and conduct self-assessment in conjunction with the inspection reports to confirm physical conditions before registering for the competition. Anyone who has any of the following physical conditions is not permitted to participate, and shall bear all the consequences and legal liabilities if breaking this rule:

1. Congenital and rheumatic heart diseases;   

2. Hypertension and cerebrovascular diseases;   

3. Myocarditis and other cardiac diseases;   

4. Coronary artery disease and serious cardiac arrhythmia;   

5. Hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia diabetes mellitus;   

6. Influenza two weeks prior to the race;   

7. Pregnancy;   

8. Other diseases unsuitable for sports.

(IV) Requirements of Epidemic Control

1. Participants are required to provide a green health code, travel code and a sampling report with negative nucleic acid test results within 48 hours, sign the epidemic prevention commitment letter before they can finally collect race goods and participate in the race.

2. In principle, two doses of COVID-19 vaccine should be vaccinated 15 days before the race. Those who meet the conditions for enhanced vaccination must complete the booster vaccination, and the corresponding vaccination records should be provided. If there is contraindication, medical certificate of contraindication should be provided. In principle, other unvaccinated persons are not eligible to participate.

3. Each participant must log in the wechat software named "Shaoxing Saishitong" and report their temperature of every day during 7 days before the race;

4. Before the sign-in date of the race, each participant must ensure that he/she has no history of living in or travelling to any other country (border) with medium-high risks within 10 days, nor inner China within 7 days ;

5. Those who do not meet the epidemic prevention requirements and those who have the following conditions before receiving the race items before the race will not be distributed and their registration fees will be refunded;

(1) Persons convicted of confirmed COVID-19 cases, suspected cases, asymptomatic close contacts, sub-close contacts, or having had close contact with such persons are not allowed to participate;

(2) People with fever, cough and other symptoms who have not yet been ruled out due to suspected symptoms of COVID-19 are not allowed to participate;

(3) Close contacts, sub-close contacts, or those in close contact with such persons who are during medical observation and health monitoring are not participate;

(4) Persons whose area rise to medium/high risk level before the race are not allowed to participate;

(5) Family members living together must meet the above epidemic prevention and control requirements;

6. Those who meet all the above conditions at the same time are qualified to  participate after the examination of the LOC. If adverse effects are caused by participant’s concealment or submitting false information, the LOC has the right to cancel the qualification, and would hand it over to the judicial organs to investigate the relevant legal responsibilities according to laws;

7. In case of new changes in the epidemic in China, the LOC will make further adjustments to the race according to new epidemic prevention and control requirements. Please watch on that timely. The LOC will then pay close attention to the epidemic situation. If the epidemic situation changes significantly before the race, the race may be postponed or cancelled after evaluation.

(V) Registration Method

1. Stage 1：Participants who have their 2021 fees refunded are welcome to regain their qualification by clicking “Pay again” on official website. Please note that the category chosen for 2021 edition shall not be altered. For those who have not had their 2021 fees refunded please either click “Pay again” to continue 2022 edition, or click “I’d like to get my fees back” . Fees would reach payer’s account within 10 working days. No conduct about this would be considered as an agreement on continuing the participation 2022, and registration fees would not be refunded.

2. Stage 2: It depends on the condition of stage 1. Several name spaces of marathon, half marathon and mini run are open for registration. “First come, first served”, and there is no “direct-pass” conditions. There would be no stage 2 if spaces of all event categories are all up to limit during stage 1.

3. Within required time, runners can enter the race through the official website (sxym.org.cn) or wechat account platform (sxmarathon), according to related requirements.

4. Registration Procedure of Stage 2:

(1) Marathon and Half Marathon: register a new account on the official web→select event category→review and agree on the Participation Statement→fill in  information→make the payment→obtain your qualification;

(2) Mini Run:

(3) ① Mini Run (individual): participants above 13 (born before Dec.31, 2009) register a new account on the official web→select“Mini Run (individual)”→review and agree on the Participation Statement→fill in information→make the payment→obtain your qualification; ② Mini Run (Parent-Child): participants under13 should have their parents assist in the account registration on the web→select“Mini Run (Parent-Child)”review and agree on the Participation Statement→fill in information→make the payment→obtain your qualification.

5. Charity Run

（1）Available category: Marathon and Half Marathon;

（2）Name spaces: 100 (50 for each category);

（3）What benefits you would get:

Distribution of Honor Certificate of Charity;

Priority in standing in front positions of starting area;

Exclusive charity number bib;

Enjoy the exclusive admission of bag drop-off service;

Exclusive window service of race-kit collection.

6. Requirements of joining [Competition of “One Hundred” Group]

（1）Each running group is limited to 20 runners, and at least 1 runner must be a female;

（2）Qualified participants：marathon runners who get enter qualification through the above procedure of stage 1 and 2;

（3）Registration Date: Nov.1,2022 --- Nov.3, 2022

（4）Method: Each group leader log on official web to find this competition button and fill in information of 20 group members;

（5）Amount limit: 100 groups (“First Come, First Served”)

(VI) Registration Fees

1. Registration Fees

(1) Marathon:    150RMB/person

(2) Half Marathon:    150RMB/person 

(3) Mini Run:    50RMB/person

2. Charity Run:    1,800RMB /person

3. Payment channel: Alipay, Wechat online.  

4. Once your participation is qualified, registration fees are not refundable.

Ⅲ. Important Tips

1. Once participant’s entry is confirmed, each name space is exclusively reserved for the holder himself/herself, and is prohibited to be transferred to others. In addition, the category could not been altered;  

2. All participants shall submit authentic information. Any fake commitment would cause entry cancellation of the 5^th Sleemon Shaoxing Marathon, after the confirmation by the LOC;

3. During the race, in cases of any uncivilized behavior (such as committing open defecation or throwing garbage anywhere,etc.), the LOC has the right to cancel their race results;

4. For race information of the 5^th Sleemon Shaoxing Marathon, please follow updates of the official account on wechat platform: sxmarathon;

5. In case of double entry through both official website and any a third party,

the entry through the official website would have priority of recognition.

6. Contact us

Tel: 0086-(0)575-88588981, 0086-(0)575-88588982.

Working hours: 9:00a.m.-11:30a.m., 3:00p.m- 5:30p.m.

Email: sxmarathon@163.com.

Address: Shaoxing Olympic Sports Center, No.899 of West Yangjiang Road,

Yuecheng District, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, China.

IV. For more details please refer to Notice of Race Bag Collection of the 5^th Sleemon Shaoxing Marathon

V. Issues not fully covered herein shall be further notified. The LOC reserves explanation rights to all the above. 

Shaoxing Marathon Organizing Committee