Mo Katir led a magnificent participation in the Berango Mile

Mo Katirrunner-up in the world 5,000 meters at the World Cup in Budapest, leading the luxury participation this Saturday in Berango’s XXXV Milethe specialty’s star event on the national calendar where Spain’s middle distance elite will once again meet, with Esther Guerrero topping the women’s list.

Together with Guerrero, winner in 2021, tomorrow’s presence stands out in the prestigious race in the Biscayan town, promoted by the former athlete. Joshua Hernandezfrom across the podium in 2022: the Portuguese Salomé Afonso, winner, and Águeda Marqués and Marta Pérezwho led him to the box.

The English Aimee Pratt, Carolina Robles and the promising Marta Serrano, Daniela García and Mireya Arnedillo and Carla Gallardo are other names in a relationship full of World Cup winners in 2023 and all candidates are in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Just like in the men’s race, where the stars shined even more this last season. Where, in addition to Katir’s silver, he featured Adrian Ben’s fourth place in an 800m race in which the Galician is already an Olympic finalist at Tokyo 2020.

The biggest rival of both in Berango is the Portuguese Isaac Nader.another well-known international specialist who seems to be used to the race, having won the last two editions in 2021 and 2022.

However, Nader seems to be struggling because of the starting line, in addition to Katir and Ben, the presence of other outstanding national runners who are among the best in the international middle distance has been announced, such as Ignacio Fontes, Saúl Ordóñez, Jesús Gómez and the youth Mohamed Attaoui and Pol Oriach, in addition to hurdler Dani Arce and distance runner Ouassim Oumaiz.

The appointment at the Gobelalde urban circuit starts at 4:00 pm with the first of many miles scheduled for athletes of all ages, leading up to the full international race. Whose schedules are scheduled at 6:45 pm, for women, and 7:15 pm, for men.