Our Correspondent
Kohima, Nov 22. (EMN): The Great Hornbill Run will be held on December 5 at Indira Gandhi Stadium (IGS) Kohima from 7 am as part of the Hornbill Festival.
The run is being organized under the aegis of Nagaland Athletics Association (NAA) in association the Nagaland Tourism, and there will be three categories - senior, U-18 and U-16.
In the senior category, both men and women will run for 10 km while for U-18, boys will run for 6 km and girls will run 4 km. In the U-16 category, both boys and girls will run for 2 km.
The champion in the senior category will receive INR 15,000 while the second, third, fourth and fifth position holders will receive INR 10,000, INR 7,000, INR 5,000 and INR 3,000 each.
In the U-18 and U-16, winners will receive INR 10,000 each while the rest of the position holders upto 5th position will receive INR 7,000, INR 5,000, INR 3,000 and INR 2,000 each.
The entry fee for the runners will be INR 500 for seniors and INR 200 for both U-18 and U-16.
Document required for interested runners is Aadhaar card for Indian citizens while for foreign tourists, they have to produce passport.
For further queries, the following persons can be contacted Mhonsao Ngullie, vice president NAA (+91 9089410863) and Purna Konyak, joint secretary NAA (+91 9402681057).