The Bucharest Marathon, in Romania, hosts this Sunday, October 13, the second edition of Marathon Masters World Championshipwhere Spain attended 40 athletes.
All in all, they compete more than 400 runners from 33 different countrieswhere the local team stands out with 149 athletes, followed by Italy with 42. There are also 20 athletes from Morocco and a handful of runners from other parts of the world: 2 from Oceania (Australia), 2 from America (Mexico and Uruguay) and 1 from Asia (Japan).
The 42.195 km route runs through the streets of the Romanian capital, starting and ending in front of the massive Parliament Palace.
In registered Spanish, the names of Francisco Urbano M35 (2h29:08), Francisco Alsina M45 (2h29:06), Jordi Carrasco M50 (2h29:53), Miguel Angel Plaza M55 (2h35:34), Jose Perona M60 (2018 World Champion), Miguel Diez M65 (2018 World Runner-up) or Juan Lopez M80.
Manuel Rosales He continues to be the most successful Spaniard in the World Masters Road Championships with 7 titles achieved in 6 editions and 4 different categories M50, M55, M60 and M65.
There are probably more medals than the 4 achieved in the previous edition, especially by the teams, where the 12 Spaniards in the M50 or the 8 in the M40 stand out.
After this championship only 100 km world championship in Bengaluru (India) on December 7.
In this way, Spain ends 2024 with more than 1,000 master athletes participating in the various international championships of the category and with a total of 356 medals, 144 of which are gold.
Source: La Verdad
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