{"id":9860,"date":"2026-10-24T00:45:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T07:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/?p=9860"},"modified":"2026-10-24T00:45:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T07:45:29","slug":"two-races-flagged-off-on-first-day-of-adi-kailash-ultra-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/two-races-flagged-off-on-first-day-of-adi-kailash-ultra-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Two races flagged off on first day of Adi Kailash Ultra Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Two races flagged off on first day of Adi Kailash Ultra Marathon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>B.D.Kasniyal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Pithoragarh, Oct 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Two races were flagged off on the first day of the second Adi Kailash High-Altitude Ultra Marathon in the Adi Kailash region of Pithoragarh district on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Uttarakhand Tourism Secretary Dheeraj Singh Garbiyal flagged off the 70-km ultra-marathon at Jolingkong, situated at an altitude of 15,200 feet, district administration sources said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cA total of 109 athletes from across the country participated in the race,\u201d said Santosh Chand, District Information Officer, who was present at Jolingkong to cover the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Meanwhile, the 42-km marathon was flagged off from Gunji by Ashok Nabiyal, a state-level office-bearer holding ministerial rank in the Uttarakhand government, Chand said. A total of 73 participants took part in the race.<\/p>\n<p>According to the District Information Officer, three more races of 21 km, 10 km and 5 km will be organised on October 25. A mountain-terrain biking event will be held on October 26, the final day of the second Adi Kailash High-Altitude Ultra Marathon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two races flagged off on first day of Adi Kailash Ultra Marathon B.D.Kasniyal Pithoragarh, Oct 24 Two races were flagged off on the first day of the second Adi Kailash High-Altitude Ultra Marathon in the Adi Kailash region of Pithoragarh district on Friday. Uttarakhand Tourism Secretary Dheeraj Singh Garbiyal flagged off the 70-km ultra-marathon at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,1284,91,35,59],"tags":[4402,4304,4403],"class_list":["post-9860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international-political-national","category-national","category-sports","category-uttarakhand","tag-adi-kailash-marathon-run-2026","tag-pithoragarh-district-information-officer-santosh-chand","tag-uttarakhand-tourism-secretary-dheeraj-singh-garbiyal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Two races flagged off on first day of Adi Kailash Ultra Marathon - Northern Gazette<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two races flagged off on first day of Adi Kailash Ultra Marathon\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/two-races-flagged-off-on-first-day-of-adi-kailash-ultra-marathon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Two races flagged off on first day of Adi Kailash Ultra Marathon - 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