Baikal Ice Marathon offers competitors the unique opportunity to race across the frozen waters of the largest, deepest and biotically richest fresh water lake in the world. 

The Marathon is a part of a larger winter games festival, the Winteriada, which includes  also Baikal Kamchatka Ice Fishing  and Baikal Ice Golf Tournaments, Ice Skating Races and a few other outdoor adventure  events.

Baikal Ice Marathon is both psychologically and physically demanding. The utterly featureless landscape gives little or no sense of perspective to competitors, offering them nothing to focus on but how far they are from their goal.  It is a long, cold, lonely 42.2 km trail across the barren white landscape, where progress is marked only by checkpoints positioned at 5 km intervals.

The starting point is in Listvyanka settlement, 70 km far from Irkutsk city. 

This year 120 sportsmen from 50 different countries will participate in the maraphon. 

Baikal Ice Marathon entered into the five of the world's major endurance races in 2016, according to the rating of Men's Health magazine.

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