• Decision.The Valencia Marathon suspends the popular test but keeps the elite race alive

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Five days after announcing the suspension of the Valencia Marathon for 30,000 popular runners, the organization has announced that 300 athletes will participate in the professional race called the

Valencia Elite Edition Marathon

.

Super elite athletes will be those who take to the streets of Valencia on December 6, accompanied by those who seek a mark for the

Tokyo Olympics

postponed to next summer.

There will be two events that will be disputed: the

Marathon

, which will include the regional championship, and a

Half Marathon

with which you want to fight for the IAFF Gold Label.

The races will have different schedules and with modified circuits, to affect the health security of the city as little as possible.

This elite version is limited to

300 professional runners

who will be invited by the selection team of the event.

50 will be the super elite that seeks victory, and maybe the records, both in the 42 and in the 21 kilometers.

The other 250, including the 25 that will compete for the regional title, will look for the Olympic mark in Valencia.

The effort to celebrate this event under strict sanitary conditions has been made by SD Correcaminos and the Valencia City Council thanks to the financial support of

Juan Roig

, through the Trinidad Alfonso Foundation.

"Valencia will host the most important race of the year 2020 worldwide, not only because of the brand goals in both distances and also because of the census of elite runners who will seek a place in Tokyo. We are convinced that in a year as complicated as this , the name of Valencia will sound again throughout the world, "said the race director,

Paco Borao

.

Sanitary bubble

The organization will create a health bubble around the event and will have its own medical device, which will include the support of an

"external consultancy" to ensure the traceability

of the steps, if necessary, of athletes and people involved in the organization of the event. race.

The event in Valencia is, together with the

London Marathon

and the

Polish Half Marathon

, the only one to be held this fall in Europe.

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