The Valencia Trinidad Alfonso Zurich Half Marathon It presented its 31st edition on Thursday, which will be held this coming Sunday, where it highlighted that it will have 20,000 famous runners and one hundred in the Elite category, who will try to achieve the best world records of the year , a goal. taught by the organization.
Paco Boraorace director and president of SD Roadrunnerhighlighted the difficulty of achieving world records every year, as achieved in women in the last edition, and in men two years ago, where he pointed out that, even if they worked to bring the best runners , it is “very difficult” to beat the scores of previous years, so that they settle for achieving the best of the year.
In addition, he thanked the “loyalty of the runners after a two-year break due to the pandemic. I would like to highlight the participation of foreigners of approximately 20 percent, of 99 nationalities, which is good news of international impact . In addition, 27 percent are women, the highest national average in this type of race”.
Sunday’s appointment will also allow the end of the first edition of the ‘Superhalfs’, which brings together the best five half marathons with Copenhagen, Lisbon, Prague and Cardiff, and which, according to its director Saso Belovski A total of 11,854 runners have applied for the digital super passport, although 2,000 of them are expected to complete all five tests.
Juan Miguel Gomez, director of the Trinidad Alfonso Foundation, recalled on the tenth anniversary of his institution that “we have a special love for this test because it was the first and we created very strong and very good links”.
In the economic section, he announced that the budget was 2 million, financed by 38% of the registrations, doubling last year’s contribution; 31% of sponsors, with Zurich entering this year as the main one; 21% from FTA, which usually goes to hiring elite brokers, and 10% from other income.
In its part, Sonia Mansillathe marketing director of Zurich explained: “We really want to sponsor the Valencia races, because many things connect us and it is a matter of time to get here, and we finally achieved it with the half marathon and marathon”.
Source: La Verdad
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