Sport events
Batavierenrace
World largest relay race Batavieren race is helt since 1972. Divided into 25 stages the route has a lenghth of 185 km. More that 300 teams take part of this race that starts at midnight in Nijmegen and ends the next day around 18hr in Enschede. Afterwards, the biggest student party in the Netherlands takes place, with over 12,000 visitors!
Enschede marathon
The Enschede Marathon is a annual marathon since 1991. Before that is was a bi-annual race for 44 years. The race is the distance of a typical marathon (42 km, 195 metres). About 10.000 runners, including international prof runners, take part of the event that crosses the German border through the city of Gronau.
Beside the official marathon there are several distances for runners such as a half marathon, 10km and 5km.
For some years known as the Twente Marathon, it is the oldest marathon race in the Netherlands and the fourth largest marathon in the Netherlands, after the Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Eindhoven marathons.
links
• Batavierenrace
• Enschede Marathon