Spain, women's world champion in Trail Running

The Spanish team wins four medals on the second day of the World Cup in Chiang Mai

MADRID, 5 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Spanish women's Trail Running team, formed by Nuria Gil, Sheila Avilés, Jùlia Font, Anna Comet and Virginia Pérez, has been proclaimed world champion in the Mountain World Championship

On the second day of the event, the Spanish women's quintet repeated the success they achieved four years ago in Penyagolosa, with Great Britain taking silver and the United States bronze, in a race in which Nuria Gil was fourth (3:56 :25), just ahead of Sheila Avilés (3:56:39), and Jùlia Font ninth (4:02.41).

The Spanish participation was completed by Anna Comet, seventeenth (4:12:38), and Virginia Pérez, thirtieth (4:27:23). The individual title was awarded to the Romanian Denisa Ionela Dragomir, ahead of the Czech Barbora Macurová and the Swedish Emilia Brangefält.

In the men's Trail Running event, where the Norwegian Stian Hovind Angermund was proclaimed champion, the best Spanish finisher was Antonio Martínez, ninth (3:21:35), with Zaid Aït Malek fourteenth (3:25:52), Ricardo Cherta twenty-sixth (3:37.08) and Raúl Ortiz forty-fourth (3:48:21). By teams, Spain finished in fifth place and Italy, France and Great Britain took the podium.

In Ultra Trail Running, Gemma Arenas (8:46:27) shone to get the bronze medal at the individual level, only behind the French Blandine Lhirondel and the Swedish Ida Nilsson in the women's event, in which she contributed to the silver conquered by Spain at team level -with France champion and Italy third-.

Maite Mayora finished in eighth position (8:56:40), Marta Molist was fifteenth (9:10:13), Mónica Vives twenty-sixth (9:36:06) and the flag bearer in Chaing Mai and the most successful athlete in the history of women's trail running in Spain, Azara García de los Salmones, thirty-third (10:18:24).

In the men's Ultra Trail Running race, Spain achieved a team bronze, completing a podium that was climbed by the champion United States and France. At the individual level, the American Adam Peterman won the title followed by Frenchman Nicolas Martin and Italian Andreas Reiterer.

In terms of the Spanish participation, Jose Angel Fernandez 'Canales' was fourth (7:39:19), Aritz Egea fifth (7:48:42), Marcos Ramos twenty-second (8:14:55) and Borja Fernandez fourteenth fifth (8:47.36).

In this way, Spain accumulates six medals after its second day in Thai lands, thus surpassing the best harvest in history that had been achieved four years ago in the edition held in Spanish lands, in Penyagolosa.