The thirty-ninth edition of Seville Marathon It will be held this Sunday with African runners as the top favourites, as usual, among the 12,000 registered and its interest doubles this Olympic year, as a hundred athletes of different nationalities will try to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
He Championship of Spain which is celebrated during the exam, with the beginning and end next to María Luisa Park in the Andalusian capitalwill give direct spots for the event in Paris in August to the men’s and women’s champions, while other powerful federations such as Turkey and Britain They designated the Sevillian event as a pre-Olympic trial for their marathon runners.
The favourites, however, were the parts of an ‘African army’ led by Ethiopians Asrar Abderehman Hiyrden and Gadisa Birhanu Shumiethe winners of the last two editions, both under 2 hours and 5 minutes, who wanted to disturb up to seven athletes who ran under 2h06, among them the best European among those registered, the French Morhad Amdouni.
The 42-year-old veteran Ayad Lamdassem (2h06:25 two years ago in Seville) is the main candidate to win the Spanish Championship in the absence of the national record holder Tariku Novalesalthough you should keep an eye out for other distance runners of Moroccan origin such as Chakib Lachgar and Ibrahim Chakir.
The woman with the best registration time is the 43-year-old Namibian Helalia Johannesbronze medalist at the World Cup five years ago in Doha, although the status of favorites has fallen, a priori, to other competitors such as the British of Kenyan origin Magdalene Robertson Masai or the Ethiopian Azmera Gebrucrediting an impressive 2h20:48.
The Cordoba Fatima Ouhaddou He is the great attraction among Spanish women, because only ten weeks ago he recorded an impressive record of 2h25:30 in Valencia and in this Zurich Marathon of Seville he will try to be crowned champion of Spain, despite opposition that they promised. Meritxell Soler (2h26:37) and María José Pérez Moreno (2h26:42).
Record the number of foreign participants
The growth of the Sevillian event can be seen in the exhaustion of the 12,000 numbers available more than two months ago for a trial that broke the historical record of foreign participants, with more than 5,700 runners coming from more than a hundred countries
In addition, this will be the edition with the largest number of women registered in its history, with 2,100 women (17.5% of the total), and 3,131 Andalusian runners for a race that will be watched by more than 150,000 spectators distributed along the route. , for six hours. that the competition lasts.
He Seville Marathon It has been put together, due to its route and meteorology suitable for making extraordinary scores, as a test of enormous sporting interest, but, in addition, with an estimated economic impact of more than 60 million euros, as reported by the city council.
The organization announced a recognition in the run-up to Kenyan athlete Kelvin Kiptummarathon world record holder who died on Sunday, along with his coach Gervais Hakizimanain a traffic accident in your country, which will consist of observing 42 seconds of silence before the starting gun is fired
Source: La Verdad
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