Under the auspices of the Public Authority for Sports and in partnership with BMMI, the Wings for Life World running race, which comes in support of spinal cord research under the title “Run to those who cannot”, where the race that is held at one time is witnessing the participation of more than 170 countries around the world.
The Wings for Life Running Race is a unique event as it brings hundreds of thousands of runners around the world, and the race is held near the Avenues Complex in Manama, while all runners in all countries are launched at one time starting from 2:00 pm local time of the Kingdom of Bahrain.
For his part, His Excellency Dr. Abdul Rahman Sadiq Askar, CEO of the General Authority for Sports, affirmed to support such charitable sporting events that contribute to achieving many lofty goals and enhances the role of sport in supporting societal and humanitarian issues, noting that the General Sports Authority is always seeking partnership with private sector institutions in such sports, and that the Kingdom of Bahrain has always been a pioneer to support and support these humanitarian initiatives.
His Excellency praised the principles on which the race is based, indicating that the strategy of the General Sports Authority includes supporting community sports initiatives, which have a role in spreading sports as a culture, not to mention the goals that this event calls for, indicating that many athletes around the world suffer from spinal cord injuries, and that providing support for medical research through the Wings for Life race will have a major role in helping them in obtaining treatment in the future.
Wings for Life is a non -profit institution founded in 2004 by the world champion of Motkos twice Heinz Kenigueer and the founder of Red Paul Ditrich Matchz, where its mission is to find a treatment for spinal cord injuries, while the first copies of this race were launched in 2014 an annual charitable race that returns to finance the research of the treatment of spinal cord injuries, as last year’s race witnessed the participation of 265 thousand Running of 192 nationalities in 169 countries around the world.
