Spain will attend the Innsbruck Trail World Championship with forty athletes

The Choosing Spanish going to Trail World Cup held in Innsbruck-Stubai, in the Austrian Tyrol, from June 6 to 10with the forty athletes (19 women and 21 men)they include two individual bronze medalists of the last edition, Gemma Arenas and Álex García Carrillowhich shined in the long trail and Vertical Uphill specialties, respectively.

After winning seven medals in the inaugural edition in Chiang Mai (Thailand) in 2022, Spain will go to Austrian Tyrol with forty shortlisted athletes after meeting the criteria established by coach José Peiró and the Sports Department of the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation .

Both Gemma Arenas and Álex García Carrillo are repeating in both events, where they also won team silver and bronze with Spain. Carrillo will also compete in the Mountain Classic after being proclaimed champion of Spain in Lloret de Mar in April.

Of the five collective medals won by Spain, the brightest was the gold in the women’s short trail. Two of the champions will again be part of the team in Innsbruck-Stubai: Nuria Gil, fourth and best Spaniard in 2022, also the Spain 2023 vertical climb champion; and Júlia Font, tenth in Chiang Mai and Spanish mountain race champion.

The team is completed by Oihana Kortazar (Spanish champion of the discipline in Zahara de la Sierra), Natalia González Barrachina (winner of the Spanish Championship of the Autonomous Federations of Lerín), Ikram Rhassala and Ainara Urrutia (second and third in Zahara).

The men’s short trail team, fifth in Chiang Mai, will this time consist of Spanish champion Dimas Pereira; the runner-up and third place in Zahara de la Sierra, Zaid Ait Malek and Jan Margarit; Jonatan Arobes (third in Lerín) and Mario Olmedo.

In the women’s long trail, Spain took the silver with Gemma Arenas. This time the Castilian-Manchegan will form a team with Azara García de los Salmones, also a 2022 medalist and recent Spanish ultra trail running champion in El Paso, and with Rosa María Lara, third on the podium in La Palma after Azara and Gemma.

The men also medaled in the 2022 long run, in their case bronze. Four members of that team are repeating in Innsbruck-Stubai: José Ángel Fernández (fourth in Chiang Mai), Aritz Egea (fifth in 2022 and 2023 Spanish ultra trail running champion), Marcos Ramos (23rd and fifth in the National ) and Borja Fernández (45th and runner-up in El Paso).

The Classic Mountain team was named runner-up in the world in 2022 and returns to the World Cup with three of its four members: Andreu Blanes (sixth in Chiang Mai and runner-up in Spain in the mountain race), Álex García Carrillo (15th and national champion in Lloret de Mar) and Miquel Corbera (19th and champion of Spain 2023 of vertical climbing and winner of the National of the Federations of Lerín).

The team is completed by sub23 Ibai Larrea, full bronze in Lloret and fourth in the vertical climb.

Among the women, Onditz Iturbe leads the Spanish team in the Classic Mountain, a distance where she finished ninth in 2022. Malen Osa (Spanish U23 vertical climb champion and U23 winner in Lerín), Laura Domene and María Ordóñez will compete with him. .

The last absolute discipline of the World Cup is the Vertical Uphill. Here, Spain won the men’s team bronze in 2022 and will travel to Austria with the aim of climbing higher on the podium.

World bronze medalist Álex García Carrillo will lead the Spanish quartet with Miquel Corbera, Spanish vertical climb champion and winner of the Lerín Federations. The team is completed by Eduardo Hernández, national bronze, and Dani Osanz, champion of Spain in 2021 and winner in 2022 of the Canfranc-Canfranc vertical in the WMRA World Cup.

The women’s team consists of the aforementioned Onditz Iturbe and Malen Osa (runner-up and third in Spain in 2023), along with Ainhoa​​​​​​Sanz (fourth in Ojós and second in Lerín) and Silvia Lara (seventh in Ojós).

The complete shortlist is as follows:

· WOMEN

Long Trail: Gemma Arenas, Azara García de los Salmones, Rosa María Lara.

Short trail: Júlia Font, Núria Gil, Natalia González Barrachina, Oihana Kortazar, Ikram Rhasalla, Ainara Urrutia.

Classic mountain: Laura Domene, Onditz Iturbe, María Ordóñez, Malen Osa

Vertical Uphill: Onditz Iturbe, Silvia Lara, Malen Osa, Ainhoa​​​​​​​Sanz.

Junior Classic Mountain: Blanca Batlle, Inés Herault, Laura Ordiales, Nadia Soto.

· MALE

Short path: Ricardo Cherta, Aritz Egea, Borja Fernández, José Ángel Fernández, Alejandro Mayor, Marcos Ramos.

Long trail: Zait Ait Malek, Jonatan Arobes, Jan Margarit, Mario Olmedo, Dimas Pereira.

Mountain classic: Andreu Blanes, Miquel Corbera, Álex García Carrillo, Ibai Larrea.

Vertical Uphill: Miquel Corbera, Álex García Carrillo, Eduardo Hernández, Dani Osanz

Junior Classic Mountain: Marcos López, Jan Torrella, Fabián Venero, Marcos Villamuera. EFE

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