He did not need to run as much as in Seville, where he was second, to end up winning in Alcobendas. Rodrigue Kwizera let the rest of the athletes do it and only with a little more than two kilometers to go he released the final blow that made him win in the same place as a year ago but this time it will count because he ran in uniform that I had to do it.
The first The great entertainer of the race was Dani Arce who held on in the lead what is today his fetish test (about three kilometers) and, a little later, the pace at the head allowed Fernando Carro to recover feelings lost in the cross. With Kwizera securing victory the excitement turned to second place. And there came the revelation of the season, the Toledo Sergio Paniagua, who proved to have a place in the selection for the European Championship in Turin where Yayha Ouina may also be, who today was fourth behind Car and ahead of the all-rounder Andreu Blanes.
In girls there were no surprises either and it prevailed the Kenyan Lucy Mawia, who already won this season in Soria. Burundian Francine Niyomukunzi paid dearly for trying to follow her, who ended up third swallowed by the European cross country championthe Italian Nadia Battocletti.
First Spanish, and fourth in the finish line, was Laura Luengo, who entered ahead of the Argentine Tesuri and Idaira Prieto from Segovia. This week we will already have a Spanish team for Turin where, after the level shown by our team, our country must aspire to everything.