On October 12, the Kyiv Marathon of resilience took place on Trukhaniv Island, which also hosted the Ukrainian Championship in marathon running. Participants tackled a true marathon distance of 42.195 km. Kyiv crowned one champion and one prizewinner.
The men's winner was Maxim Anenko from Kyiv, finishing with a time of 2:21:17. Second place went to Roman Skuridin from Luhansk (2:23:57), with Dmytro Siruk from Rivne securing third (2:24:28). Maxim was trained by coaches Mykola Nyzhnyk and Oleksiy Pisarev. Competing in the same race was Oleksandr Kalachov from Kyiv, who finished eleventh (2:44:41), alongside two representatives from Kyiv region: Yuriy Kuzinsky (6th place, 2:33:37) and Pavlo Zabolotny (12th place, 2:57:57).
In the women's competition, Olena Pitirimova from Kyiv took second place, completing the race in 3:01:37. The champion was Ivanna Melnyk from Dnipropetrovsk region, finishing with a time of 2:49:31.