The 100-kilometre (62 mi) trail was set along Mijiashan Hill of the Yellow River Stone Forest, a treeless karst terrain at the transition from the Loess Plateau at its south to the Tengger Desert at the north. The stone forest features the rising of isolated pinnacle hills The accident and the weather Terrain and contingency planning
Liang jing marathon runner manual#
The race manual made windbreakers recommended but not compulsory. Participants of the 100 km race had to show proof of completing a similar race of over 50 km within the last year. The 2021 edition consisted of three events: 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) running, a half marathon and a 100 km (62 mi) trail running. The on-field coordinators and some of the sports marketing company staff were later arrested. The Baiyin and Jingtai officials were later condemned by the official investigation for "being organizers only on paper" and not performing their duty to supervise as organizers.
The actual operator of the race was a local sports marketing company, Shengjing Sports Culture Development Ltd (甘肃晟景体育文化发展有限公司). The actual on-field event coordinator was the " Yellow River Stone Forest Administration", which is headed by the propaganda chief of Jingtai County's Communist Party Committee, who later committed suicide (see § Disciplinary action). The race was jointly organized by Baiyin Prefecture's Sports Department and Jingtai County's Communist Party Committee annually from 2018. Location of Jingtai (marked as "accident") in northern China Background Local government as the organizer The number of fatalities and the fatality rate surpassed the U.S.–China joint Yangtze rafting disaster in 1986 in Sichuan. The dead were from the lead pack due to the timing of the cold front, while the slower runners survived. The collapsed runners did not survive and rescuers did not arrive until 19:00. The organizers were unaware of the scope of the disaster because they did not assign any staff between checkpoints and they did not know the distressed point was in mobile phone signal blind spots. Many runners collapsed unconscious from hypothermia while reaching the 2,230-metre (7,320 ft) checkpoint. When the cold front struck, rain and possibly graupel were carried by gust reaching level 9 (75–88 km/h ).
Liang jing marathon runner professional#
On, twenty-one professional runners died from hypothermia out of the 172 competing in a government-run 100-kilometre (62 mi) trail running race held in the Yellow River Stone Forest in Jingtai County, Gansu, China. (Yellow River Stone Forest 100k trail running race accident)ġ0:30–13:00 ( Nationwide Beijing time )
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