Biggest ever UK Wings for Life helps raise record breaking total

Runners at Hill Dickinson Stadium and across the UK helped to raise raising an astonishing €9.2 million for spinal cord injury research.

Over 200 runners registered to line-up at the start line at Everton’s waterfront stadium on Sunday to join over 346,000 participants from 192 nationalities across the globe in the annual event.

They included runs across every continent, including flagship runs in Vienna, Breda, Munich, Zug, Ljubljana, Zadar and Poznań, alongside a record-breaking 648 community-organised App Run Events around the world – from Sydney, Pretoria, South Africa, Tokyo, São Paulo, Mumbai, Stockholm, Taipei, Warsaw, New York City and Bogotá.

In the UK, Hill Dickinson Stadium staged the event for the first time, alongside other major runs nationwide at Oracle Red Bull Racing’s campus in Milton Keynes, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London and Newcastle Red Bull’s stadium.

Across the globe, participants collectively took an astonishing 4,243,552,935 steps during the biggest edition in the event’s history.

Unlike traditional races, the Wings For Life Run has no fixed finish line. Instead, participants run, jog, walk, or roll as far as they can before the moving finish line – a virtual Catcher Car – gradually catches up with them, making the event accessible to people of all abilities and experience levels.

Globally, Wings for Life World Run has raised a total €69.7 million for not-for-profit spinal cord research foundation, with the single mission to find a cure for spinal cord injury.

Find out more about Wings for Life here.

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