The Women’s Race returns to Madrid next Sunday (October 24) with a new route and with 18,000 participants who will give color to the ‘pink tide’ to complete a 7.2-kilometer circuit through the streets of the center of the capital. Among the participants, the ‘Trainsplant’ team stands out, made up of twelve women who have undergone a transplant or are in a situation to receive it, and the components of the ‘Solidarity Sneakers’ project, led by Javier Rosado and which aims to support homeless people or at risk of exclusion with sport as an escape valve.
The route, due to the works in the Plaza de España, changes in this edition. The exit will be on the street in Serrano, next to the National Library, and will end at Paseo de Camoens, usual place of arrival in previous editions. The runners Tamara Sanfabio and Beatriz Morillo were in charge of publicizing the official shirt of this edition, whose motto is ‘For all of us’. In both the physical and virtual races, the participants will wear the number 016 to help in the dissemination and knowledge of the telephone service for victims of gender violence that leaves no trace on the mobile bill.
Patricia Reyes Rivera, general director of Equality of the Community of Madrid, declared during the presentation in Madrid that this race “transmits more optimism every day in the fight for the longed-for equality” and assured that this event has already “become an appointment essential of the sport of solidarity women “. Alicia MartÃn, general director of Sports of the Madrid City Council, confessed that “sport manages to transform women due to the positive effects it provides on a psychological and healthy level” and highlighted the “important solidarity component” of this race.
During the event, different solidarity checks of one thousand euros were delivered to the NGOs and foundations Wanawake Mujer, Pulseras Rosas, Clara Campoamor and the Spanish Association Against Cancer and the organization, Motorpress Ibérica, paid tribute for her career to the Paralympic judoka Marta Arce, mother of three children. A total of 1,150,000 women have worn the number in the sixteen years that this circuit of the ‘Women’s Race’ has been held, which has raised more than one million euros for solidarity projects.
Among the priority objectives of the ‘Women’s Race’ circuit is the effort to incorporate women of all ages into the regular practice of sport, fight against cancer and raise awareness about the prevention and maintenance of healthy habits to combat gender violence and social and educational inequalities.