The Swiss runner breaks the record for the most explosive distance of the palm tree race.
The fifteenth edition of the Transvulcania adidas TERREX celebrated the first of its competition days with the Vertical Climb in which around 160 runners took part, starting from the Puerto de Tazacorte and arriving at the Torre de El Time with just over seven kilometres between one point and the other.
The race, explosive and spectacular as always, crowned Luca del Pero (47:59) and Maude Mathys (56:39) as the winners. The Italian runner and the Swiss athlete imposed their greater regularity on the hard ramps of the race to inscribe their names as winners of the race that inaugurated the competitive calendar of this fifteenth edition of the race in Palma.
The transalpine ran hard for the record of the race, held by the Norwegian Stian Angermud-Vik, which he came very close to. The Swiss athlete did achieve it, leaving a performance for the history of the Transvulcania adidas TERREX as fifth in the absolute classification.
The competition was tough for the two winners because both Diego Díaz, among the male participants, and Silvia Lara and Yuri Yoshizumi, among the women, pushed for the top of the podium at the end of the day. Thus, what was experienced in this Vertical Climb was a sporting exhibition like few others in the world of mountain races.
There was excitement and there was a spectacle because as the participants passed through the reference points, there was a succession of changes of leadership as the favourites grew little by little and overtook the runners who were ahead of them at the start. Until they passed Pero and Mathys, breaking the records one after the other.
In the end it was Del Pero and Mathys who set the most consistent pace at the finish line. Diego Díaz (50:41) and Boris Orlhac (50:49) completed the men's podium while Silvia Lara (1h.02:22) and Yuri Yoshizumi (1h.02:46) were second and third in the women's race.
The Transvulcania adidas TERREX is organised by the Cabildo Insular de La Palma through the public company SODEPAL, with the support of the Government of the Canary Islands, through the Department of Tourism and Promotur with its brand "Islas Canarias Latitud de Vida", as well as the companies 226ERS, Hotel H10 Taburiente Playa, Hotel La Palma Princess, Hotel Meliá La Palma, Fred. Olsen Express, Cicar, Spar La Palma, Coca-Cola, Libbys and Isola.
