The Valencia Marathon touched record drums in the previous days. The forecasts pointed especially to Letesenbet Gideywho had already beaten on this same stage records of 5,000 meters and average. There was no world record. Not from Gidey, not from anyone. But it was not necessary either to verify, once again, that the athletes fly in the City of Arts and Sciences. There was no record, we said, but Valencia is already the second fastest marathon in the worldboth in men and in the sum of men and women, in both cases solely by behind berlin. Before Sunday, the Spanish race was in sixth place in the combined ranking, so it has devoured four rungs in one go. kelvin kiptum did not exceed the world cap, but his time 2h01:53 is the third in history, only behind two myths like Eliud Kipchoge and Kenenisa Bekele. His prodigious debut in the distance and his 23-year age also augur great achievements. Amane Beriso did not break that record that was expected of Gidey either, but his record of 2h14:58 is the third female of all times, behind Brigid Kosgei and Ruth Chepngetichand in front of the legendary Paula Radcliffe. The sum of the two times places Valencia in second place in the marathon top, just five seconds behind the dominant berlin.
there was no recordno, but the announcement that there will be one sooner rather than later, that the Spanish city, baptized the city of running, is already among the great events of the distance. It has been 42 years of work the Roadrunner SDdriven in recent times by the resources and illusions of the Trinidad Alfonso Foundationto turn Valencia into a popular marathon, with 21,813 athletes who crossed the finish line, and, at the same time, in an elite marathon. The war cry that sounded this Sunday was unanimous: “Now we only have Berlin left”. Valencia flies.
