MADRID, 1 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ethiopian Ejgayehu Taye, who last year achieved the 5K world record in the Cursa dels Nassos with 14:19, was close to repeating the feat in the traditional event in Barcelona on the last night of the year, achieving the second best time of the story in the distance with 14:21.
Her greatest rival in the five kilometers of Barcelona, Konstanze Klosterhalfen, broke the German record with 14:52, taking revenge from the last European Cross Country Championship, leaving the Norwegian Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal third (15:06). As for the Spanish, Esther Guerrero (15:50) was the best.
In the men’s category, the bad news arrived shortly before the start, with the sick leave of Jakob and Filip Ingebrigtsen. The test was very open and the Ethiopian Adisu Girma did not miss his opportunity to enter the list of winners of the Cursa dels Nassos.
A strong attack in the last kilometer was enough for him to prevail with 13:25, ahead of a brave Ilias Fifa, who with 13:30 broke the record for Catalonia and placed third in the Spanish ranking of all time after Ouassim Oumaiz and Mo Katir.
The 10-kilometre test, in which the Barcelona 92 goalkeeper, Antonio Rebollo, gave the starts in waves, had 10,000 participants. In the men’s category, the 27-year-old Moroccan Mohamed El Ghazouany (28:46) won, ahead of the Spanish Àdam Maijó and the Moroccan Abderrahim Ougra. In the women’s race, Meritxell Soler won as in 2020, ahead of the also Spanish Mireia Guarner.