The Universities of Lapland and Oulu will organise a staff running event on 28 June 2014. The Northern Universities' running championships will be a sister event to the Rovaniemi Marathon arranged on the same day. In addition, the long-distance championship of the university students in Lapland will be nailed down during the same event.
The two universities organise the running event to support the well-being of staff and to improve interaction between the two northernmost universities in Finland. Staff participants can choose from a few distances and categories. The distances are 10 km, a half marathon, and a full marathon. Each distance has categories for women and men. The universities will take turns in hosting the event in the future.
The Sports Services of the Lapland University Consortium will organise the first long-distance running championships for the students of the University of Lapland and Lapland University of Applied Sciences on the same day, too. Students can choose from the distances of 10 km and a half marathon, and both distances have categories for women and men. According to Sports Coordinator Mika Vettainen from the Lapland University Consortium this kind of a running event is a good way to improve community spirit between the higher education institutions in Lapland. “It is conceivable that the long-distance championships will become an annual event in the future”, he notes.
More information:
Student championchips:
LUC Sports Services (in Finnish)
Sports Coordinator Mika Vettainen
Telephone 040 182 6341
E-mail: mika.vettainen (at) ramk.fi
Staff running event:
ULapland intranet
University of Lapland:
Olli Tiuraniemi
Telephone 0400 695 418
E-mail: olli.tiuraniemi (at) ulapland.fi
University of Oulu:
Markku Saarela
Telephone 0294 484 029