11.000 runners in the EDP Bilbao Night Marathon

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The eighth edition of the 'EDP ​​Bilbao Night Marathon', which will be Saturday, will gather on the starting line of its three distances 11.000 runners from 49 countries of the five continents, of which 30% will be women, according to the organizers have informed EFE today.

This night test will have, as in previous editions, a race of 10 kilometers, the so-called 'pirate', another in the distance of the half marathon, each of them with a 5.000 participants, and the queen test of the 42.195 meters, which will gather about a thousand athletes.

In terms of participation, in the male category the presence of Kenyan Cosmers Kemboi (2: 10: 33), which in principle will officiate the work of hare for his countrymen David Kiplagat (2: 14: 02) and Eliud Too (2: 13: 06).

"I will do my job up to kilometer 25 trying to get my teammates to achieve a good record, but if I feel strong and they can not follow me I will not hesitate to go for the win“, Kemboi has advanced today in the presentation of the test in the Biscayan capital.

The record of the Bilbao test is held by 2008, the Moroccan Abdellah Taghrafet with 2.08: 21.

Edp Bilbao Nighth marathon profile

In the women's sector, the big favorite is another athlete from Kenya, Mercy Jepkangor, who has an accredited mark of 1:12 in the half marathon and will debut in the distance with the aim of "losing 2:40", which would allow him to lower the best mark of the Bilbao test, which was carried out in 2010 by Margaret Atodounyan ( 2.49:28).

Kenya will also provide the best runners in the 21 kilometers test. Among the women stands out the presence of the young woman of 22 years Brillian Jepkorir (1: 11 in the altitude of Kenya) and in men the Matthew Kosgei (1: 02: 49) and Kiptoo Maiyo (1: 03: 09).

The marathon, the only nocturnal in the national calendar, will begin at 20.30 hours and will run on a circuit of 21,1 kilometers to which the athletes must take two laps and which will travel Bilbao's emblematic points such as the Guggenheim Museum, departure and arrival point, the Gran Vía, the Arriaga theater and the Casco Old

More information;: https://www.edpbilbaomarathon.com/

Source: Efe

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