Late yesterday Organizing Committee of the 25th Ohrid Marathon 2010, decided to continue with the preparation of this jubilee event. We’re asking all interested marathoners to register on the website http://amo2010.akohrid.mk/?page_id=261 for the marathon, so the organizers could make all the preparations timely

Will be held or not traditional athletic Ohrid Marathon on 8 September, will know tomorrow, when the premises of the local government has scheduled a meeting between representatives of the organizer and the municipality. OhridNews learned that local government will meet the organizers and will cover the lack of funds necessary to maintain the marathon. That will likely avoid a new closing this sports event, which because of similar problems in the past on several occasions been canceled.

25th Jubilee Athletic Ohrid Marathon which is traditionally held on September 8 on the day of Macedonia’s independence, will be canceled if the next days we did not get funds from local government to account Ohrid Athletic Club, Athletic Club Ohrid is the organizer of the marathon. The Athletics Marathon Ohrid last year is part of the local government to celebrate the national holiday on September 8, and funds for his organization provided in the budget of the municipality of Ohrid.

This jubilee year of our Mahler is the most crisis came to a situation to think of canceling the marathon because of lack of sufficient finance. The whole financial structure of this event was reduced to 10 thousand euros, which have been secured around 7000 euros. We asked a local to join the Organising Committee, but until today I have no answer. We require the municipality to cover the prize fund which is about 4000 euros.

Possible cancellation of the marathon can acquire many consequences for both organizers Ohrid Athletic Club, and for Atlerskata Federation of Macedonia.

The Marathon Athletics Ohrid third consecutive year has entered the world calendar. If we keep this marathon, consequences will be huge for us. Will follow and other penalties by the EAA because we changed the calendar.

Mayor Petreski announced a meeting with the Organising Committee for the marathon which will further discuss the requirements for finsiskata support, he declined the opportunity to help the organization.

Hangs in the air holding the 25th Jubilee Athletics Marathon, marking the September 8th day of Macedonian independence traditionally held in Ohrid. Financial problems facing the organizers of the marathon forced to think of such a move.
It’s no secret that financing is a major problem, say those who decided to meet with reporters tomorrow from 11 pm to inform the public.
Athletics Ohrid Marathon which is organized by the AK Ohrid on the track runs 30 km long from the barracks at St. Naum to Ohrid. In the last few seasons within the marathon is held and regional military Athletic Marathon.

On 17.08.2010 was held a regular meeting of Organizing Committee of the Athletic Club Ohrid. At that meeting a decision is taken as an official shirt for the 25th jubilee athletic Marathon Ohrid in 2010 to look at this way

In the front is the logo of the Athletic Club Ohrid – the organization of this marathon, and on the back the official logo of the Athletic Marathon Ohrid 2010 .

This information is for all athletes ho will compete to the 25 jubilee International Athletic Marathon Ohrid 2010. The starting packet will be :

1. Starting number
2. T-Shirt with the official logo of the marathon on it
3. Bilten 1 with the information of the marathon race

This packet will cost 10€ and the athlete will pay on the technical meeting that will be on 07.09.2010. For more information for the place were will be the technical meeting we will inform you on this web site.

For more information you can contact on this email: dimitrov_vlatko@yahoo.com

In the last regular meeting the organization of the Marathon OHRID 2010, which will be held on 8th Septembri starting at 10am from St. Naum finishing Ohrid near the Riviera Hotel. In the meeting was decided the award fund to award with prize the first 5 (five) placed athletes, as follows:

Also will be awarded and first  Macedonian best marathon runner in Male and Female category for the male the award prize will be 100 € and for the female 80 €. If  there is a track record then will be a bonus rewarding of plus 200 €.

This are the record holders in Male and Female category

Race record – men : Borislav Devic (AK”Cr.Zvezda” – S.R. Jugoslavia) 1:39:13 / 06.11.1993
Race record – women : Dobrinaka Salamanova (NSA”Klasa” – R. Bulgaria) 2:06:01 / 08.09.2006

We would like to draw your attention to one of Macedonia’s greatest truths, the truth of Ohrid, an immortal town, a magical hill whose primordial pulsation links ancient and modern times forever. Ohrid has been a living town for two thousand and four hundred years. It is the legimate descendant of the shining Lychida, a town whose achievement were woven into the papestry of a powerful ancient civilization.

Ohrid was the most important official capital of the first Slav Macedonian state, of Samuel’s empire. And Ohrid was the centre of Macedonia’s nineteenth century revival. Ohrid bears the name “The Balkan Jerusalem”. Through the activity of St. Clement of Ohrid, the first pan-Slavonic university in Europe was situated here.

According to the well-known 17th century Turkish travel-writer, Evliya Celebi, the Ohrid shopping and commercial quarter then occupied quite a large area of the lower town. Here were to be found all the essential craft workshops as well as shops Celebi lists 150 shops, three free lodging-houses and three caravanserais or hostelries. There were also seven coffee-houses where the educated people would gather. The inns were situated in the hilly part of the town where the Christian population dwelt.

The majority of the dressed-stone shops in the business quarter were built in the course of the 19th century. Most of the shops which have survived were owned by Macedonian trades people as can be ascertained from the names on the upper parts of their facades. In addition to the trader’s name, the year – and sometimes even the month – when a particular shop was built, has been recorded.

Dear friends i wold like to welcome  you all to take a part of  the 25th OHRID marathon.