RACE RULES

Venue: Podgorica, Montenegro

Races: 5 km; 10 km; 21.1 km; 42.2 km

Fun run (5 km): Open to everyone, with no age limit. Award categories (trophies): top 3 (men and women).

Desetka (10 km): Open to everyone, with no age limit. Award categories (trophies): top 3 (men and women)

Half marathon (21.1 km): Open to everyone; children aged 14 to 18 must have written consent from a parent or guardian. Award categories (trophies and prize money): top 5 (men and women); top 3 Montenegro (men and women). Award categories (certificates): age groups 18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54, 55-64, 65+ (men and women).

Marathon (42.2 km): Open to everyone aged over 18. Award categories (trophies and prize money): top 5 (men and women); top 3 Montenegro (men and women). Award categories (certificates): age groups 18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54, 55-64, 65+ (men and women).

• Follow the instructions of the officials. The judges at the start, at the finish and along the course make sure everyone keeps to the rules.
• The use of bicycles or any other vehicle is strictly prohibited.
• Only runners wearing a race number will be allowed into the start zone.
• Once you have crossed the finish line, keep walking and do not stop.
• If you need medical assistance, ask a volunteer for help; volunteers are at the finish and at set points along the course.
• During and after the race, split times and results are published online on our website. These are provisional results. If you find an error, contact us within 48 hours of the race by completing the contact form on our site. After 48 hours the results become official and cannot be changed.
• Your online certificate will be available to download from the results page
• Photographs from the race can be downloaded from our Facebook page.
• The organiser takes every possible measure to keep all participants safe. All participants accept that they run at their own risk.
• The organiser accepts no responsibility for any loss of property during the event.
• Under the rules, runners must leave the race if any official asks them to do so.
• Pets (animals), and any wheeled vehicle, are not allowed on the course or in the start and finish areas.
• The organiser reserves the right to refuse an entry fee and participation in the race from anyone it considers should not take part.
• No sports equipment of any kind that could harm the safety or health of participants or spectators is permitted in the competition.
• Competitors must not be accompanied by third parties on a motorcycle, bicycle, scooter or any other vehicle. Doing so leads to the competitor being disqualified.
• In the event of any action that disrupts the proper running of the event or endangers the safety of participants, the organiser is entitled to bar and disqualify the person concerned at any time.
• Binding legal evidence against a participant may be submitted only by the group of people authorised to do so by the organiser.
• That group also includes members of the medical services responsible for the competition, who have the right to prevent a participant from taking part or from continuing in the event, in order to protect that participant, where relevant medical symptoms are present.

• Runners register on Friday and Saturday at the registration point in Hard Rock Cafe Podgorica, during the hours set out in the event schedule. Registration is not possible on race day except in exceptional cases.
• The start zone on the Millennium Bridge is open from 08:00 to 09:30. Access to the start zone after that will not be possible.
• Runners change in the marked tents and hand their belongings to the volunteers for safekeeping. The volunteers take in and store belongings that have been labelled with the race number beforehand. Belongings wait for runners in the same place after the race and are collected on presentation of the race number. In the start zone on the Millennium Bridge, as well as the bag drop, competitors can use medical assistance and toilets before the race, and refreshments afterwards.
• Every competitor must wear only the race number under which they are registered and which they received from the organiser, otherwise they will be disqualified. The race number must be worn on the front, in a visible position.
• All participants in the fun run, the 10 km, the half marathon and the marathon must be in the start zone by 09:45. When taking up their start position, elite competitors stand immediately behind the start line and everyone else behind them.
• Runners must follow the instructions of the announcer and the judges at the start. Runners whose behaviour disrupts the order and arrangement at the start will be removed from the start and disqualified.
• The race starts at 10:00.
• All competitors must pass the electronic timing points on the course. If a competitor is not recorded at these points for any reason, that competitor loses their placing and their result.
• There is no time limit for the fun run and the 10 km; the limit is 3 hours for the half marathon and 6 hours for the marathon.
• Runners who withdraw can go to the nearest medical post or to the staff at an aid station, where they can wait for transport to the start zone or to a medical facility if needed.
• Participants in all races receive a medal on finishing. After crossing the finish line, refreshments, medical assistance, the bag drop and toilets are available to all participants.
• Any complaint or objection about the conduct of the competition is made to the chief judge at the finish, submitted in writing together with a fee of €30.
• The winners of all races are announced on the stage at the finish, to a schedule confirmed later.

A participant may withdraw from the race and is under no obligation to notify the organiser. If a participant withdraws, or is unable to take part because of unforeseen circumstances, the organiser is under no obligation to refund the money paid.

Prize money is provided for the first 5 places in the men's and women's competitions in the marathon and the half marathon, and for the 3 best competitors from Montenegro in the men's and women's competitions in the marathon and the half marathon. Prizes cannot be combined; a competitor receives the prize with the higher amount. The total prize fund is €15,000.

Marathon total: €10,000

Half marathon total: €5,000

• Prizes are gross amounts and are paid into the competitor's account no later than 60 days after the end of the competition
• The prize fund applies only to competitors with whom the organiser has concluded an appearance agreement.
• Prizes cannot be combined; the higher amount is the one that counts

Podgorica Milenium Run will be held regardless of the weather (rain, wind, snow). However, the organiser reserves the right to postpone, modify or cancel the event if it judges that conditions for holding the race on the scheduled day are not safe. If the event is postponed, modified or cancelled, including but not limited to force majeure (storms, floods, earthquake), an act of terrorism, fire, the danger or threat of an attack, a strike, war, a state of emergency or any other reason outside the organiser's control, the organiser is under no obligation to refund participants. If the event is postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic and the competent authorities do not permit the race to be held in any part, the organiser will offer all competitors the option of transferring their entry fee free of charge to the next scheduled date, or a refund of the entry fee. The event will be held in line with the measures in force against the coronavirus pandemic.

At Podgorica Milenium Run an electronic chip attached to the back of the race number is used to record your time. Your race number carries important information, so it matters that you keep to certain rules. The race number with the chip must be worn on the front of your running shirt throughout the race so that you can be identified.

• Every competitor must wear their race number while on the course.
• Race numbers must not be swapped with another runner.
• Folding, covering or cutting the number, or deliberately altering it in any way, is prohibited.
• Removing the chip from the back of the race number is prohibited.
• Do not damage or pierce the chip sticker with the pins you use to fasten the race number to your shirt.
• Do not cross the start line before the race begins.
• Covering the race number as you cross the finish line is strictly prohibited. Remember: no chip, no time!
• Safety pins for the race number are included in the race pack.

There are several aid stations on the course: two on the 10 km, six on the 21.1 km and eleven in total on the 42.2 km. The course profile diagram shows roughly where the aid stations are.

First aid is available at several points along the course, and throughout the 21.1 km and 42.2 km races doctors follow the runners in ambulances. At the finish itself, all competitors can seek help from the medical team.