One of the historically distinctive features of Allianz Jean Bouin has been an extensive program of races -this year in the centenary edition it has been expanded to 17-, under its umbrella are races for professionals, beginners in two Open, 5K and 10K, federated and promotion races, the tests on students.
The latter is a spectacle because of the illusion that can be seen on the faces of the little ones, in a display of the quarry of champions that the MD Athletic Classic. Many professional athletes have taken their first steps at Allianz Jean Bouin.
Undoubtedly, one of the best exponents of these words is Esther Guerrero. The banjoles athlete He included La Bouin in his agenda whenever he could, after he fell in love with athletics the year he debuted at La Bouin. “It was 1999 and heavy snow fell. I remember the illusion of my club mates, traveling by coach to Barcelona and the joy after the test. Then I didn’t realize that I won a mythical test. I will enjoy morning athletics and being with my friends. And the snowfall made my nine-year-old victory even more epic. La Bouin is a unique race where athletics is lived”, said Guerrero who this year was 4th in European Indoor Track.
At the age of nine, La Bouin started running again, like an athletics legend Reyes Estevez, who in 2019 made history by winning the 10K: “I couldn’t believe it. In both places and competition I started running when I was 9 years old. I enjoyed again where it all started”, the former 1,500 European champion (Budapest’98) told MD. And the best thing is that these icons of athletics become benchmarks for the youngest, as I said Julia Hurtado after winning at 11 years old. “I admire Reyes Estévez, who since he was young has won in all categories. I would like to follow in his footsteps”, said this young athlete from Club Atletisme Gava.
In his story the Allianz Jean Bouin it attracted great athletic figures, some expanded their curriculum in Barcelona, others inaugurated it and a third served as a launching pad. This is the case of Mohammed Katir that he won with authority in 2021 and a year later silver in European Union in Munich (Germany) at 5,000 and copper at 1,500 ng Eugene World Cup (USA).
In the past, great athletes also stood out at La Bouin, such as Carme Valero, Gregorio Rojo, Isaac Viciosa or Carles Castillejoa champion tradition of Clásica de MD intrinsic to its DNA.
It is not in vain that the race took the name of the French athlete Alexandre Francois Etienne Jean Bouin, who won three consecutive times the Cross of Nations (1911, 1912 and 1913) bettered in 1911 the world record of 10,000 m which had been valid for more than 10 years and the time, which in Stockholm Olympics in 1912 he achieved a silver medal in the 5,000 m and that he would meet death during the first world war
Source: La Verdad
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