Barcelona once again placed among the elite of international athletics. World Athletics, the highest organization of this sport and formerly called the International Association of Athletics Federations, has made public the ranking of the best races in the world in 2023 and, in the women’s category, The first classified is the Cursa dels Nassos in Barcelona.
This traditional competition, which on December 31 celebrated its 25th edition with 11,000 bib numbers sold, has in recent years featured talented international stars who took their 5 kilometer challenge at the highest level .
So, in the last edition, the Kenyan athlete Beatrice Chebet broke the world record of that distance in the women’s race, with a time of 14 minutes and 13 seconds. With this, the next three qualifiers also surpassed the best mark established up to that moment: Ejgayehu Taye Haylu (14:21), Lilian Kasait (14:26) and Joy Cheptoyek (14:28).
“This recognition from World Athletics reinforces our desire to make Barcelona an example of a city dedicated to women’s sports, not only recruiting the best athletes in the world to set records in our races but as well as promoting and increasing participation over the years. female in all the races organized by the City Council,” highlighted the Sports Councilor of the Barcelona City Council, David Escudé.
Cursa dels Nassos, a circuit to make records
The World Athletics classification, formerly the International Association of Athletics Federations, has the Riga World Athletics Road Championships, in second place, and the Valencia Half Marathon, in third position, behind the Nose Race.
The Cursa dels Nassos in Barcelona is one of the most famous races and one of the most important road competitions at international level. Barcelona has worked in edition after edition to offer a very fast urban circuit with all the technical requirements so that athletes can set the best possible times, especially with the creation in 2020 of the International 5K Race where achieved the best times. In the last year.
This 25th edition was once again successful, both in participation and in sportsmanship and scores, but, in previous editions, other world records have been made, as in 2021, when the scores of women and men for the 5 kilometer race is cut off. mixed (Ejgayehu Taye with 14:19 and Berihu Aregawi with 12:50)’.
Source: La Verdad
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