SK Vidar and Fokus Bank Oslo Marathon starts running groups this Sunday (7/11).

Time: Every Sunday  9:30 to 11:00

Place: Meet at Sognsvann at the barrier.

Plan: You will be divided to groups according to your own capacity. Monitoring and supervision of training. Coaches are committed and will help you to plan your training based on your level.

Price: 500 kr until Christmas and then 300 kr / month. After 3 months of participation or more,  you can become a member of SK Vidar if desirable.

Registration: Send an e-mail to run@skvidar.no
Please fill out: name, birth date, address, tel.number, e-mail, approx. time per km.

Take advantage of our offer and sign up for next year’s Fokus Bank Oslo Marathon. The offer lasts until October 31.

Registration fees:

• Marathon kr. 470,-
• Half marathon kr. 370,-
• 10 km kr. 270,-
• 3 km kr. 220,-
• Kids mini marathon kr. 100,-

Regitster for the event here.

 

Entry cards;

Entry card has been sent out via e-mail. If you don’t have received an e-mail, you can log-in to “My Page” and find the entry card (at the bottom of the page).  You received username and password from Ultimate Sports Service when you registered.  You need to bring the entry card when you are collecting your start number.
Those who will attend the children’s race will not receive an entry card; they meet at the start number distribution and say their name.

Change of distance and cancellation;

It is not possible to change the distance.

We can’t do a refund of the registration fee. Participants, who can’t attend due to illness or injury, can with a medical certificate or doctor’s certificate get the entrance fee transferred to next year’s event.

Living History invites to a meeting with the topic

The battle that made the world to run

This fall there is 2500 years since the Battle of Marathon. The interest has never been greater for the marathon distance. In this context the magazine Living History invites, in cooperation with the Oslo Marathon to an open meeting with the contents the historical drama between Greeks and Persians.

• What we know – and what we do not know – About the Greek legendary victory over the Persians in 490 BC.?
• Did the man with the message really run 42 km?
• Why has marathon never been more popular than now?

Introducers
Johan Henrik Schreiner is professor emeritus at the University of Oslo with ancient history as a specialty.  He is among other things behind the impressive overview in Ancient history. The last book he wrote is about the battle – or rather battles – by Marathon.

 

 

Thor Gotaas is an author. He has written cultural history books with an emphasis on people in motion; vagrants, skiers and runners. Han er opptatt av de nesten usynlige menneskene og forsøker å se historien nedenfra. He has an interest in the almost invisible people and he tries to find the story behind.

 

 

Time: Wednesday 15. September kl.1900 to 20.30

Location: Nedjma-hall, the House of Literature in Oslo

Free admission

Press Release

Fokus Bank Oslo Marathon:

Fokus Bank, Danske Bank’s operation in Norway, becomes the Oslo Marathon’s new title sponsor

30 August 2010 – Fokus Bank has become the strategic partner and title sponsor for the Oslo Marathon. This new collaboration aims to focus attention on positive values, exercise and health, and help establish the Fokus Bank Oslo Marathon as one of Europe’s major running events.

The 2010 Fokus Bank Oslo Marathon will take place on 25-26 September as a family affair, which includes the Mini-marathon over 500 metres for children up to the age of 10 as well as five-kilometre, 10-kilometre, half marathon and marathon races.

Participants in the signing ceremony for the collaboration agreement on Fokus Bank Oslo Marathon included (from left): Grete Waitz (marathon veteran), Jack Waitz (her husband and well-known coach), Kristin Hødal Torgersen (Head of Human Resources), Trond F Mellingsæter (CEO, Fokus Bank, Danske Bank’s operation in Norway), Tony Isaksen (General manager, Vidar Sports Club), Tone Lunde Bakker (Head of Corporate & Institutional Banking, Corporate and Institutional Banking), Steinar Hoen (Head of the Bislett Alliance, Diamond League) and Nils Jostein Helland (Chairman, SK Vidar/Vidar Sports Club).

“A marathon stands for much of the same as we do: ambition, endurance and a long-term approach,” says Trond F Mellingsæter, CEO of Fokus Bank.

Owned by Denmark’s Danske Bank, one of the leading financial groups in the Nordic region, Fokus Bank in Norway also owns Fokus Krogsveen Eiendomsmegler (Real Estate Agent/Management), Fokus/Danske Markets, Danske Invest, Danske Capital and Danica Forsikring.

“We’re extremely pleased to have secured a new strategic partner and title sponsor,” says Nils-Jostein Helland, Chairman of the Vidar Sports Club.

In addition to the annual Oslo Marathon, this body stages the young people’s Bislettlekene track and field event, Oslo’s Diamond League Bislett Games and the Athletics School for Children.

The Fokus Bank Oslo Marathon aims to create a weekend-long institution and popular festival which unites the residents of the Norwegian capital and makes them proud of their city.

“Everyone can take part here,” says Mr Mellingsæter. “They’re all a winner. The important thing is to join in and set a personal goal for completing the distance which suits your form and physical condition.”

With the Fokus Bank Oslo Marathon, which is the event’s official name, he sees new and exciting opportunities to focus attention on personal exercise and health and to involve customers and partners in training to join in. Because it takes place in the late autumn, this event has also been dubbed “the training target of the year”.

“Completing one of the distances in the Fokus Bank Oslo Marathon will be a personal achievement, regardless of its length,” comments Mr Mellingsæter.

“Running the full marathon will naturally demand a great deal, but most people can manage one of the shorter distances in the event if they set clear training goals.

“We’re a bank which thinks long-term in everything we do, and has clear ambitions. You can find many points of similarity with running a marathon here.

“Furthermore, this event will give us an excellent opportunity to promote our image in Oslo during the year. It accordingly fits well with our strategy for growth and visibility. And we can highlight the need for physical exercise in enjoying a good life.”

Strong growth in participation. Table: How participation has expended in recent years

“The Fokus Bank Oslo Marathon aims to grow towards 50 000 runners over the next few years,” Nils Jostein Helland, chair of the Vidar Sports Club, stated when the agreement with Fokus Bank was signed.

So far, about 13 000 runners have registered for this year’s event. Women account for roughly 46 per cent of the total, or about 18 per cent for 42-kilometre race, 46 per cent for the 21-kilometre, 66 per cent for the 10-kilometre and 58 per cent for three-kilometre race.

Signing ceremony: The signing ceremony on 26 August. From left: Nils Jostein Helland (Chairman, Vidar Sports Club), Trond F Mellingsæter (CEO, Fokus Bank, Danske Bank’s operation in Norway) and Grete Waitz (marathon veteran).

Focus Bank in brief

Fokus Bank is a branch of Danske Bank, which ranks as one of the Nordic region’s leading financial groups with total assets of more than DKK 3 000 billion. The group has roughly 23 000 employees and an extensive network of offices in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland. In addition come offices in such locations as London, Luxembourg and Warsaw. Fokus Bank has its head office in Trondheim, 47 branches and a total of 1 300 employees. For further information, see  www.fokus.no. For pictures of the bank’s spokespersons, go to  http://fokus.no/nb-no/om-fokus-bank/Presse/Pages/fotoarkiv.aspx.

Fokus Bank Oslo Marathon in brief

The Fokus Bank Oslo Marathon is Norway’s largest street marathon. First staged in 1981, the race attracted a record 14 000 runners in 1994, but interest in jogging declined around 2000 and it was not staged in 2002-03. Its organisation was taken over by the Vidar Sports Club in 2004. Held on the last weekend in September, the event is now run over the following distances: marathon (42 195 metres), half marathon (21 097 metres), 10 kilometres and three kilometres. Traditionally, the half marathon attracts the largest number of competitors. This year’s Oslo marathon will be the 28th in the series. The route for the full and half marathons follows the coast around the Oslo Fjord from Akershus Castle in the city centre to Sjursøya in the east, back into the centre, up the main Karl Johan street and back along the parallel Stortingsgaten, past Oslo City Hall, and west along Drammensveien to Sjølyst before returning to the finishing line at the castle. The Fokus Bank Oslo Marathon is organised by the Vidar Sports Club (www.skvidar.no), one of Norway’s leading athletics organisations. For further information, see www.oslomaraton.no

Marathons in brief

A marathon covers 42 195 metres, and derives its name from the fabled run of Greek soldier Pheidippides, a messenger who allegedly ran from the Battle of Marathon to Athens in 490 BC. He fell dead after gasping “We have won”. The event joined the Olympic programme in 1896, and the world record for men is held by the Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie, who ran the distance in 2:04:26 in Berlin in 2007. Paula Radcliffe set the world record for women at 2:15:25 in London in 2003.

More information from:
Nils-Jostein Helland, Chairman, Vidar Sports Club,
mobile: +47 93 48 45 18, e-mail: njh@skvidar.no
Bjørn Langli, Head of Corporate Communications, Fokus Bank,
mobile +47 90 57 33 63, e-mail: bjorn.langli@fokus.no

We are looking for people who want to make som buz along the course. This is something that creates a good atmosphere for both runners and spectators. If you would like to perform with music, dance, or anything else, just contact info@oslomaraton.no. We can offer exposure on our website as a partner, as well this is a great opportunity to meet prospective clients.

We are looking for exciting, fun and good stories to use on the big screen production during Fokus Bank Oslo Marathon. If you or you know someone who has a history that could be fun and interesting to share with others, send an email to info@oslomaraton.no .

We are approaching step by storm 12 000 participants. That is, it decreases withplace at the various distances. So if you want to be guaranteed up to this autumn’s big event, simply sign up. Subscribe!

Did you know that you can also take part in a huge anniversary. There are in fact2500 years ago marathon occurred. Marathon to cheer Athenians’ victory over the mighty Persian Empire at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC Barrel distance of 42 km would honor the messenger, a heavily armed foot soldier who after the battle should have expired in the summer all the way to Athens with a victory message, before he fell and died of sheer uttmattelse.

Interest in the Oslo Marathon is bigger than ever. For the first time, more than 11,000 runners registered for more than two months left to go. This is more than entrants to start the marathon last year.

Number of entries per day escalate quickly. Experience shows that the numbers will start very fast from the end.There are now more than 100 submissions a day and organizing club SK Vidar has set a ceiling of 14 000 participants.So if you want to be part of Norway’s largest, most fun and exciting street racing, you should sign up now. Below fInner how many seats are left at each distance. Number of participants per distance can be seen on the start list .

Distance Number of places left

- Marathon 500 seats

- Half Marathon 1300 seats

- 10 km 1100 seats

- 3 km Saturday, no limit

It is also an international interest in the Oslo Marathon and the event attracts participants from around the world. Runners are traveling from, among others from the United States and Argentina in the west to Japan in the east. Most come from Germany, followed by Poland and the Netherlands. A total of 68 different nations represented. More than half of this year’s participants are participating for the first time.

Oslo Marathon has a new website. In this connection, so there are some features that are not completely in place, but that will come shortly.

If you have questions or have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us.

Development, hosting and content management system provided by Webhuset AS .

We have now passed the 10 000 participants to the Oslo Marathon

On 5 July passed the Oslo Marathon 10,000 registered participants, an exciting moment in our marathon history.There is still a dublering the number of participants from 2009 at the same time and still half of all enrolled girls.

Who participates – Age class where most participants enrolled regardless of sex and distance are in class from 23 to 34 years. The two oldest participants so far are 81 years and we have at present 46 st which is 70 years or older. The two youngest children participating in the race and only 1 year young.

Most participants – PWC is the company with a clear majority of participants 104 st, closely followed by tram with 75 st.

Charity – show that you want to run for Team Active and collect in money for Grete Waitz their organization Active Against Cancer, they are still available seats and now has nearly 90 st as a shell to run the case.

We have gathered together in almost 60 000 to Right To Play’s work with children in difficult Asked countries, we hope to round 100 000 starting the 25.september. You can decide how much to give when you sign up to the Oslo Marathon.In addition, you can contribute to SK Vidar youth work with the integration of disabled people in athletics.

As you can see it is not the time and wait longer if you want to participate in this year’s race happening in Oslo, no matter what distance you want to attend. Number of participants can result in the start list and the maximum limit per distance are as follows,

• marathon – max 2 500 participants
• half marathon – max 8000 entries
• 10 km – max 3500 entries
• 3 km Saturday – as of today no limit

Do you want pictures from BNbank Oslo Marathon 2009? Maybe you have a friend you will surprise with a picture or two from the race. Go then to Marathon-Photos.com , search on the home number and find the image you want to order.

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