Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon requiring vaccination or negative tests for participants

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OKLAHOMA CITY — Organizers for the 2021 Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon are beefing up the protocols for the instrumentality of their in-person race.

Participants volition beryllium required to amusement impervious of COVID-19 vaccination oregon a antagonistic COVID-19 trial wrong 72 hours of their race.

This includes participants successful the Memorial Marathon, Half Marathon, Relay, 5K and anyone implicit 12 years of property participating successful the Kids Marathon.

“After the bombing successful 1995, truthful galore radical said OKC couldn’t retrieve and determination forward,” said Kari Watkins, enforcement manager of the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.

“We showed the satellite a caller modular of moving unneurotic and this Marathon stands for the aforesaid resilience of our assemblage we saw then, and we tin spot now. e judge we tin grant those who were killed, those who survived and those changed everlastingly by moving this contention and honoring truthful galore who person bravely battled this world-wide pandemic including immoderate of the aforesaid aesculapian professionals who were the archetypal to unreserved to the scene. This is our accidental to amusement a caller procreation the Oklahoma Standard first-hand," Watkins said.

Organizers are lone allowing 12,000 runners, astir fractional the magnitude that participated successful 2019.

Here are the information policies for the contention which is scheduled for Oct. 2-3:

If an idiosyncratic tests affirmative oregon has been exposed to idiosyncratic who has tested affirmative for COVID-19 wrong 14 days of the event, they are asked not to enactment successful immoderate of the Marathon events.

Anyone implicit the property of 12 moving the Memorial Marathon, Half Marathon, Relay, 5K oregon Kids Marathon indispensable bring to the Health & Fitness Expo idiosyncratic recognition (e.g., driver’s license, passport) on with a completed vaccination paper of being afloat vaccinated anterior to 14 days of contention time OR a antagonistic trial taken wrong 72 hours of the contention (October 2-3) they are registered to run.

Proof of vaccination tin beryllium the archetypal insubstantial copy, legible photocopy oregon integer transcript of authoritative COVID-19 Vaccination Card and indispensable beryllium shown with a idiosyncratic photograph ID.

Individuals incapable to supply impervious of afloat vaccination anterior to 14 days of contention time oregon a antagonistic trial wrong 72 hours of the contention (October 2-3) they are registered to tally volition not beryllium allowed to participate the Health & Fitness Expo connected October 1-2 and volition beryllium incapable to prime up their contention bib and different indispensable materials that let for information successful the event.

The OKC Memorial Marathon argumentation recognizes COVID-19 vaccines authorized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Federal Drug Administration and the World Health Organization. Accepted COVID-19 tests are those that person received FDA exigency usage authorization (EUA) and see RT-PCR, RE-LAMP, lateral flow, and accelerated antigen tests.

The OKC Memorial Marathon volition enactment with a third-party investigating supplier for COVID trial medication and results tracking. Free, on-site investigating volition statesman connected Thursday morning, September 30 astatine 7:00 a.m. Exact hours, locations, and further details volition beryllium communicated straight to each participants. Tested participants volition not person contiguous entree to participate the Health & Fitness Expo connected October 1-2 for bib fig pick-up and volition beryllium required to hold for confirmation of trial results.

Every subordinate indispensable supply impervious of either afloat vaccination anterior to 14 days of contention time oregon a antagonistic trial wrong 72 hours of the contention (October 2-3) they are registered to tally and prime up bibs personally. Participants indispensable amusement their idiosyncratic photograph ID with specified proof. Upon palmy verification of a vaccination grounds oregon a antagonistic COVID-19 test, registered runners volition person a bracelet which indispensable beryllium worn astatine each times successful bid to entree the Health & Fitness Expo, the runner corral, aesculapian assistance stations, the medal and nutrient country pursuing completion of the contention and to thrust an authoritative Marathon edifice shuttle.

The quickest mode to participate the Memorial’s Health & Fitness Expo and person contention time materials is to beryllium afloat vaccinated and person an original, legible copy, photocopy oregon integer transcript of your vaccination card.

Masks volition beryllium expected to beryllium worn successful the Health & Fitness Expo, connected autobus shuttles, astatine the Start Line corrals and aft crossing the Finish Line. Masks volition not beryllium required portion moving the course.

Masks volition beryllium required to participate the aesculapian tents and volition beryllium disposable adjacent the entranceway of each tent. All aesculapian volunteers on the contention people volition beryllium vaccinated.

Water stops volition signifier societal distancing and person nutrient items individually portioned for runners to prime up. Sanitization stations volition beryllium located adjacent each h2o stops on the course.

Marathon volunteers volition besides beryllium wearing PPE for everyone’s information and protection.

Participants and spectators are expected to travel champion practices connected idiosyncratic hygiene, covering your rima erstwhile coughing oregon sneezing, handwashing and societal distancing.