2025 "Purple Horse" welcomes nine windbreakers chasing the light where the sun turns

In the journey of the marathon, the strong never boast of their talents and pour legends with sweat. They trampled on the morning dew and returned in the stars. They ignored the shackles of age and crossed the abyss of pain only to burst out at the end to ask the dimension of life with their heartbeat. On June 22, the 2025 Pacific Construction Pu'er Mojiang Half Marathon will usher in nine windbreakers. The horn of the first event sounded, and these windbreakers were ready to go. Let's listen to those stories about racing against the Sun.

Yang Dinghong

Yang Dinghong, a "macro" power in the Chinese marathon. The 2017 Wuxi Marathon men's domestic marathon event champion and created the best results of the Chinese marathon that year. Since then, he has been like an untiring horse on the track, over the years. In the 2024 Wuhan Marathon, he set a new personal best record with a time of 2 hours, 12 minutes and 04 seconds. The hardships of time did not make his light dim, but instead made him more and more determined on the road of marathon. 20 years of persistence interpret what "love can last for the long time".

Zhu Renxue

Zhu Renxue, a Yunnan Huize Feiren, won the first place in the 10,000m of the National Athletics Championships and Grand Prix Finals in June 2016, and became famous in one battle. He participated in the Rio Olympic Men's Marathon in August 2016, and won the third place in the 10,000m of the National Athletics Championships (and Asian Games Trials) in June 2018. In 2020, he set a new record in the Nanjing Marathon with a time of 2 hours, 14 minutes and 35 seconds. He wrote his sports legend with fearless courage and unremitting efforts.

Zhang Kaiqin

Zhang Kaiqin, a former middle-distance runner of the Yunnan team, is still active in the marathon field after retiring in 2017, like a tenacious and sonorous rose. He won the first place in the women's team in the 2014 National Marathon Championships, and won the 20km individual championship of the Hebei Xingtai National Racing Walking Grand Prix in May 2019; he ran 1 hour, 15 minutes and 55 seconds in the 2023 Danxia Mountain Marathon, setting a new record; he won the half-time women's championship in the 2024 Pu'er Simao Marathon and the 2024 Leshan Half Marathon. She uses persistence and love to interpret her persistence in marathons and demonstrates the power and charm of women on the track.

He Yingbing

He Yingbing, a marathon athlete in the Yunnan team, is known for his speed of speed in the marathon field. In the 2022 SCO Kunming Marathon, he won the Half Horse Men's Group Championship with a time of 1 hour, 8 minutes and 35 seconds. In 2024, he ran 1 hour, 02 minutes and 41 seconds in the Meishan Renshou Half Marathon, setting a new record. He seemed to be a whirlwind on the track, and wherever he went, he could set off a wave of speed and passion.

Tang Tingwan

Tang Tingwan, a marathon athlete in Sichuan team, is the "sweetheart killer" on the track and the "little sun" in the hearts of runners. In 2023, he won the third place in the women's group of Xiaohetangshui Half Marathon, the champion of the women's group of Lushan Half Marathon, and the runner-up of the women's group of Pu'er Simao Marathon. He ran 1 hour, 15 minutes and 18 seconds in the 2024 Meishan Renshou Half Marathon, setting a new record.

Tao Hui

Tao Hui, a marathon athlete in the Yunnan team, the champion of the 2023 Chuxiong Marathon half-marathon, second in the men's group of the 2024 Hefei Marathon, ran 1 hour, 07 minutes and 35 seconds in the 2024 Meishan Renshou half-marathon, setting a new record, second in the men's group of the 2025 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Marathon men's group.

Zhang Kaishou

Zhang Kaishou, a marathon athlete in the Yunnan team, won the third place in the men's group in the 2024 Hefei Marathon, and ran 2 hours, 16 minutes and 56 seconds in the 2025 Wuxi Marathon, setting a new marathon record; in the 2025 Yixintang Maitreya Half Marathon, winning the third place in the men's group in the half-marathon group with 1 hour, 08 minutes and 24 seconds, setting a new half-marathon record.

Gemini

When the tacit understanding of the twins meets the loneliness of the marathon, the most unique scenery on the track is born. Aimizi Tuersun and Aimizi Tuersun, Jilin team marathon athletes, this pair of "wind-chasing Gemini" from Xinjiang. In the 2025 Meishan Renshou Half Marathon, Aimizi Tuersun set his own record with a time of 1 hour, 06 minutes and 32 seconds. At the same time, Aimizi Tuersun also set his own record with a time of 1 hour, 08 minutes and 28 seconds.

The real strong never define themselves before the finish line

When the starting gun sounds

Every inch of land on the Tropic of Cancer will become a legend

The drum of the first "Purple Horse" has been beaten

Who will write history with his footsteps

June 22, let us witness together

Source/Bojie Sports

Editor/Song Qinfang

First Instance/Gao Han Chen Bo

Second Instance/Lu Gang

Third Instance/Yin Fan