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02
Nov
2020
GUT MBA running team in The World Athletics Half Marathon Championships
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MBA running team is an open initiative, that associate students of all MBA GUT’s cohorts, alumnus as well as lecturers and administrative staff. The team is actively participating in almost all sport events organized in Tri-City, ranging from Gdańsk marathon relays, triathlons to Iron Mans. Recently they took part in the Virtual Mass Race.

Alumni, lecturer and students of the International MBA GUT programme took part in the Virtual Mass Race as a joint initiative with world champions. The World Athletics Half Marathon Championships is an international sporting event hosted by World Athletics. This year took place on 17th November 2020 in Gdynia. The MBA running team took part in the Virtual Mass Race that accompanied this world-class event. The key message of this run was very simple and clear – ALL YOU NEED IS RUNNING.

The MBA team did what was needed and covered together a distance of exactly 21. 097 km on Saturday morning in the Matemblewo forests in Gdańsk. In the time of so-called “red zone” due to the pandemic situation, only forest was taking into consideration as safest and favourable environment that can ensure safe competition.

The start was a huge dose of integration, fun and group cooperation. All participants finishing the race accompanying the World Athletics Half Marathon Championship received souvenir medals.

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