Last updated: 15.01.2024, 05:21 a.m.
By: Johannes Welte
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Konstantin Dragunov won the marathon in Oymyakon in Siberiakon, the cold pole of the world. © Facebook/Andrea Magnani
In the Siberian city of Oymyakon, temperatures are currently below minus 50 degrees. Nevertheless, a marathon was held there. The winner almost had to abandon his run.
Oymyakon - Yakutia, a Russian republic in eastern Siberia, is home to the coldest inhabited place in the world. The village of Oymyakon (462 inhabitants) celebrates itself as the cold pole of the planet, temperatures colder than minus 50 degrees Celsius are normal there in winter. But that doesn't stop the locals from holding a marathon there every year in mid-January – even if there is war on Russia's western border.
When the participants started there on Friday, the thermometer showed minus 52 degrees Celsius. The runners underwent a medical examination before the start. On the way, they were provided with broth, hot tea and snacks at the aid stations along the route.
Marathon in Siberia: Winner "almost got lost on the way"
A total of 38 runners, who were wrapped up from head to toe against the cold, took part in the marathon and half marathon, according to local media.
The winner was Konstantin Dragunov, a 24-year-old Russian student, who completed the 42.2 km in three hours and seven minutes. The air temperature at the weather station in Oymyakon dropped to minus 54.9 degrees Celsius by the end of the run!
"I almost got lost on the track," said the winner from the city of Megino-Kangalassky, which is also in Yakutia, according to the Mirror. "The marathon is unpredictable, that's what I was told in advance," said Dragunov. But it got worse, he said. "After 33 kilometers, I almost fainted."
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At the marathon it was almost "warm" by local standards
But the student recovered and crossed the finish line first with a thick crust of ice on his face. He dedicated his victory in the coldest marathon in the world to his grandfather Semyon Dragunov, who recently passed away.
At the marathon it was almost "warm" by local standards. On February 6, 1933, minus 67.8 degrees Celsius were measured in Oymyakon, as much as in Verkhoyansk, also in Yakutia. The minus 71.2 degrees Celsius from 1926 indicated on the Cold Pole monument in Oymyak are not recognized. A scientist is said to have only calculated this temperature at the time.
The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was minus 21.1983 Celsius on July 89, 2 at the Vostok Research Station in Antarctica. On 10 August 2010, satellite data were used to calculate a temperature of minus 93.2 degrees Celsius as the absolute cold record on Earth.