The 45th edition of the Rock 'n' Roll Running Series Madrid has once again filled the streets of the Spanish capital with colour, through which 34,000 runners from 102 countries have taken their strides, 10% more than last year's race.

The sporting event includes the distances of marathon, half marathon and 10 kilometers, and this year has offered the most monumental route in its history, with a tourist and historical route that has allowed runners to cross the most emblematic sites of the city such as Gran Vía, Plaza de España, Preciados Street or Puerta del Sol.

Of the total of 34,000 bibs, distributed between 9,000 in the marathon, 17,000 in the middle and 8,000 in the 10 kilometers, 27,342 were national athletes and 6,658 foreigners from 102 countries, growing the number of foreigners by almost 1,200 compared to last year. The most numerous were the French (1,248), followed by Italians (614) and British (599).

Samur-Civil Protection has attended, for the moment, about 50 people, most of them for minor issues such as falls, hypoglycemia or pathologies derived from high temperatures.

The head of the Samur device, Natividad Ramos explained that 180 troops participate in the emergency device, in three positions along the route.

Uganda prevails

The Ugandans Geoffrey Kusuro (2h10:19) and Doreen Chesang (2h26:31) were proclaimed winners of the forty-fifth edition of the Madrid marathon, in which the Catalan Marta Galimany finished third, who recomposed herself in the last kilometers after suffering a mishap.

Geoffrey Kusuro was the fastest to prevail at the finish line located on the Paseo de Recoletos, at the height of the National Library.

The Ugandan, who was second in Madrid last year, broke the lead group at two hours of running to separate Kenyan Sila Kiptoo (2h10:31), second, and his compatriot Bernard Kimpkemboi (2h10:32), third.

In the women's category the winner was Doreen Chesang. The Ugandan, eleventh in this year's World Cross Country Championships, arrived first at the finish line after covering much of the race alone.

The second was the Ethiopian Fetale Tsegaye (2h32:18) and the third the Tarragona Marta Galimany (2h37:47), who had a moment of crisis in the last kilometers, coming to stop to vomit, but who knew how to recompose herself to run at a good pace and climb to the third box of the podium.

In the half marathon, in the women's category, the winner was Clara Viñarás, runner-up of Spain of 3,000 obstacles in 2020, who won the finish line with a time of 1h16:20, ahead of two other Spaniards, Diana Martín Ugarte (1h19:15), second, and Marta García-Saavedra (1h20:05), third.

In the men's category, Kenyan dominance in the half marathon was total. The victory was awarded to Victor Kipruto, who this year already won the Azkoitia Azpeitia half marathon, by stopping the clock in 1h00:04, seconded on the podium by his compatriot Charles Matata (1h00:21) and Geoffrey Toroitich (1h00:44). The first Spaniard was Juan Antonio 'Chiki' Pérez, who finished ninth with 1h05:22.

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