Aberash Shilima Kebeda and Mike Kipkorir conquer the Movistar Madrid Half Marathon – Digital Samachaar
The Ethiopian Aberash Shilima Kebeda and the Kenyan Mike Kipkorir have been proclaimed winners of the twenty third version of the Movistar Madrid Half Marathon, which was held this Sunday, whereas Claudia Moreno and Sergio Salinero received the ProFuturo 5km Race, held in parallel.
In complete, 23,000 runners have gathered within the streets of the Spanish capital to compete within the Movistar Madrid Half Marathon, which has had a historic participation document with 21,000 athletes, and the ProFuturo Race, all with two of one of the best athletes in historical past. , the Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie and the Portuguese Rosa Mota, as sponsors of the 2 checks. As well as, the Paralympic athlete Lorenzo Albaladejo, Álex Roca and José Luis Capitán, who suffers from ALS, participated within the occasion.
The members of the half marathon, amongst whom was a bunch of as much as 30 elite athletes, accomplished the renewed and monumental route, which had a spectacular last kilometer alongside Gran Vía to Paseo de Recoletos, passing by the emblematic Telefónica Constructing , coinciding with Telefónica’s Centennial and as a part of its celebration occasions.
Within the males’s class, Kenyan Mike Kipkorir crossed the end line first with a time of 1:01:07, 13 seconds forward of Ugandan Ezekiel Mutai, and Kenyan Esphond Cheruiyot completed third (1:01:24). Ayad Lamdassem, tenth (1:06:45), was the quickest of the Spaniards, amongst whom had been, amongst others, the Telefónica ambassador Chema Martínez, Abel Antón, and Pablo Villalobos.
Among the many girls, the Ethiopian Aberash Shilima Kebeda dominated the check, stopping the clock at 1:08:31, nearly a minute and a half forward of the Kenyans Beatrice Nyaboke Begi and Vivian Jerotich Kosgei, who accomplished the rostrum. Clara Simal from Madrid was as soon as once more the primary Spanish finisher, repeating the ninth place total that she already achieved in 2023.
On the similar time, the ProFuturo 5km Race was held, a charity occasion that was born in 2016 with the goal of bringing the transformative energy of schooling, innovation and know-how to girls and boys. The occasion has raised 19,100 euros that might be donated to the digital schooling program with which Fundación Telefónica and Fundación la Caixa contribute to closing the tutorial hole in remoted environments and vulnerable to exclusion in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia.
The winners had been Claudia Moreno (20:15), within the feminine class, and Sergio Salinero (17:20), within the male class. The Paralympic athlete Lorenzo Albaladejo, thought of one of the best athlete with cerebral palsy within the historical past of Spain in pace occasions, has additionally accomplished the check.
The Movistar Madrid Half Marathon is distinguished with the ‘Highway Race Label’ seal from World Athletics, which integrates it into its official calendar of highway occasions, and was named by the Madrid Metropolis Council as an Occasion of Normal Curiosity for the Metropolis.
The race is organized by the Marathon Sports activities Group, Atresmedia and Sport Life Ibérica, with the principle sponsorship of Movistar and with the institutional help of the Madrid Metropolis Council and the Neighborhood of Madrid. Joma Sport is the technical sponsor and Garmin, AhorraMás, Rafaelhoteles, Alquiber, Deloitte, ElPozo Bienstar, Vitaldin Sport, Gourmand Latino, Oakberry and Physiorelax collaborate.
