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Rio Olympian to lead Ph runners at EVA Air Marathon
Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympian Mary Happiness Tabal-Jimenez will hit the road again as she leads some 300 Filipinos who will complete in the 2025 EVA Air Marathon on Oct. 26 in Taipei, Taiwan.
=” caption-attachment-160181″ class=” wp-caption aligncenter “> EVA Air Marathon press launch The Cebu-based runner is regarded as the country’s leading long-distance professional athlete. They are a gold medalist from the 2019 Southeast Asian Games, a six-time champ in the Milo Marathon, and effectively finished the 2023 Tokyo Marathon.” I’m delighted to be finally back on the road. This is not a simple marathon, since it’s about finding the joy in running once again after hanging around with my family as full-time mother and wife,” states Tabal at the event’s recent press launch organized by Cebu-based travel representative Travel Care.
The 35-year-old record holder is identified to break her individual finest of 2 hours and 43 minutes, attained throughout the 2016 Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon. This time remains Canada’s nationwide record, and she aims to exceed it.
>< img loading =" lazy" class=" size-medium wp-image-160183 "src=" https://outoftownblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/EVA-Air-Marathon-with-Taipei-101-in-the-background-700x484.jpg "alt=" EVA Air Marathon with Taipei 101 in the background" width =" 700" height =" 484"/ > EVA Air Marathon with Taipei 101 in the background National and trainee athletes, endorsed by the Department of Education and the Philippine Sports Commission, will sign up with the contingent. Their involvement is
sponsored by Travel Care, the Marathon’s main travel representative and regional speaker. Inaugurated in 2018 by Taiwan-based carrier EVA Air, this year’s running occasion intends to bring in 24,000 runners from around the world, showcasing Taiwan as a premier sports tourism center in Asia.
The race features an IAAF– Objectives Certified Course, consisting of half marathon, 10K, and 3K classifications. The route is developed to showcase Taipei’s tourist attractions, such as the Presidential Office Plaza, Taipei 101, Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center, and Chengmei Riverside Park.
< img loading=" lazy" class =" size-medium wp-image-160184" src =" https://outoftownblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/EVA-Air-Marathon-at-the-National-Chiang-Kai-Shek-Cultural-Center-700x443.jpg" alt= " EVA Air Marathon at the National Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center "width=" 700 "height =" 443"/ > EVA Air Marathon at the National Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center Handsome prize money of NT$ 110,000, NT$ 50,000, NT$ 8,000 wait for the top winners of the 42K, 21K and 10K departments, respectively. EVA Airways general manager Rick Hsieh expressed optimism for an effective turnout of participants from the Philippines and other nations, particularly those where the airline company flies.
” For the past decades, we have actually been linking the world through our seamless flights, and now, through first-rate sporting occasions such as the EVA Air Marathon,” he excites.
A member of the prominent Star Alliance, the carrier was ranked 8th among the World’s Leading 10 Airline companies by Skytrax, and likewise won in various classifications in its 2024 World Airline Company Awards.
It flies to 67 locations from four continents, including Philippine gateways such as Manila, Clark, and Cebu.
Air Marathon downtown Taipei “width=” 700 “height=” 401″/ > EVA Air Marathon downtown Taipei In image at the launch are EVA Airways Corp. assistant supervisor for traveler Ming Kuo, EVA Airways Corp. supervisor for Manila Nancie Ng, Lt. Dan Jimenez, Mary Joy Tabal-Jimenez, EVA Airways Philippine Branch basic supervisor Rick Hseih, and Travel Care proprietors Sunshine and Charles Lim.
EVA Air Marathon is co-presented by the Hotel, Resort and Dining Establishment Association of Cebu Inc., the Department of Education– Central Visayas Region, Sto. Niño Mactan College, Uratex Foam, Inner Wheel Club of Cebu Lapu-Lapu, and Inner Wheel Club of Cebu Lapu-Lapu Shining Stars, with The Philippine Star and The Freeman as media partners.
For information and online registration, visit www.evaairrun.com or follow Travel Care on Facebook for trip bundles for runners.
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