Festivities
The program of Sierre-Zinal
FULL PROGRAMME
FRIDAY AUGUST 11th IN SIERRE DOWNTOWN
- As of 1 pm: Bib numbers can be picked up from the Sierre Town Hall for both the children’s race and Sierre- ZinaL. Opening of the Sierre-Zinal village
- From 5 pm to 6: 30 pm: Race of the Five Obstacles including warm up with our Idée Sport partner
- 6: 30 pm: Introduction Run & Sign
- 6: 45 pm: Introduction of Elite Guest Runners and previous winners
- 7: 15 pm: Children’s race award ceremony in front of the Sierre Town Hall
SATURDAY AUGUST 12th: Sierre Zinal’s 50THedition
- From 4:45 am to 6:10 am: “Tourist” Category Race Start
- 10:15 am: Junior Runners’ Race Start from Chandolin
- 11:00 am: “Runner” Category Race Start
- 11:30 am: Beginning of live broadcast
- As of 1:30 pm: The first elite runners cross the finish line at Zinal
- 4:45 pm: Awards ceremony, musical and visual show,
- 6:30 pm: Great Prize draw, participants who do attend cannot take part in the draw
- 7:00 pm: Musical ambience with DJ
- 8:30 pm: concert and show (free entry)
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10:30 pm: Dance Party with DJ
- 00:00 am and 03:00 am Night bus from Zinal to the villages in Anniviers. The bus that leaves Zinal at 3am goes down to Sierre.
START TIMES FOR EACH CATEGORY
TOURISTS, Saturday August 12th from Sierre
Exceptional momentary road closure between Finges start area and the Anniviers Valley at 4:40 am
- Starting block 1 start time: 4:45 am
- Starting block 2 start time: 4:55 am
- Starting block 6 start time: 5:05 am
Exceptional momentary road opening between the start area at Finges and the Anniviers valley from 5:15 to 5:45 am
Exceptional momentary road closure between Finges start area and the Anniviers Valley at 5:45 am
- Starting block 4 start time: 5:50 am
- Starting block 5 start time: 6:00 am
- Starting block 6 start time: 6:10 am
The road between the start area at Finges and the Anniviers Valley reopens at 6:20 am
- Runners are seeded into starting blocks through Datasport’s timing sytem based on their estimated running time and previous SZ results. You will be notified of your start time via a personal e-mail at least a week prior to the race (to be confirmed).
- Starting block changes will result in disqualification.
- Athletes should arrive at the Start Area 30 minutes before their start time.
RUNNERS, Saturday August 12th from Sierre
Exceptional momentary road closure between Finges start area and the Anniviers Valley at 10:55 am
- Starting block “invited elites” start time: 11:00 am
- Starting block 1 start time: 11:00 am
- Starting block 2 start time: 11:10 am
- Starting block 3 start time: 11:20 am
The road between the start area at Finges and the Anniviers Valley reopens at 11:30
- For security reasons cut-off times must be abided (see below).
- Runners are seeded into starting blocks through Datasport’s timing sytem based on their estimated running time and previous SZ results. You will be notified of your start time via a personal e-mail at least a week prior to the race (to be confirmed).
- Starting block changes will result in disqualification.
- Athletes should arrive at the start area 30 minutes before their start time.
