The winners of the different distances scheduled for this special anniversary will be announced tomorrow.
Everything is ready in Transvulcania adidas TERREX for the celebration of the biggest day of its fifteenth edition. The race, which officially opened competitively this Thursday with the Vertical Climb, has tomorrow (Saturday, May 10th) a new date with its own history.
After the brilliance with which Transvulcania adidas TERREX returned to the heart of the people of La Palma in 2024 in a race where up to five race records were broken, for this 2025, on such a special anniversary, the expectation is as high as the certainty that there will be a good show by the participating runners.
More than 3,000 athletes will take the start in the three competitive distances tomorrow with representation from 50 countries and from the five continents and beyond the names of the possible favourites to win, what is in the air in La Palma is calmness to see again its most famous race in all its splendour. That was the mission of the organisers of the race after last year's success and now the rest is up to the runners.
In the ultra marathon distance, the range of possibilities for victory is wide open and difficult to predict. The Spanish men's armada has already warned that it will go all out, led by the incombustible Luis Alberto Hernando and a legion made up of Pablo Villa, Andreu Simón, Manu Anguita, Borja Fernández, Jesús Gil García, Andrés García and Jordi Gamito.
The competition will be tough because riders like the Americans David Sinclair and Matt Daniels, as well as Andreas Reiterer, Gilles Roux, Peter Frano, Kevin Vermeulen, Lambert Santelli, Elliot Retulli, Noel Giordano, Thibaut Leroy, Ramón Manetsch, Harry Jones, Charles Hamilton, Santois Gabriel Rueda, Kouken Ogasawara, Charles Hamilton, Gvido Kalnins or the Canary Islanders Estanislao García, Yonet González and Samuel Fernández.
Among the girls, the rival to beat has a name of her own. New Zealand's Ruth Croft wants to repeat her 2024 success, including a course record, and go one better than last year's stratospheric competition. Blandine L'Hirondel, Anne Lisse Rouset, Sarah Vieuille, Sabine Ehrstrom, Lea Duhet, Anais Duval, Elisa Desco, Martina Valmasoi, Marina Cugnetto, Giulia Marchesoni, Ekatrina Mityaeva, Genevieve Asselin-Demers, Megan Mackenzie, Michelle Hassell, Kristin Berglund and Jessica Tipán are also contenders for the crown of the race in La Palma, where the Canary Islanders Claudia Mola and Ana Begoña González and also Japan's Yuri Yoshizumi, one of the legends of the race on the Isla Bonita, will be paying special attention.
The Marathon has an important list of high-level runners who will try to win the prestigious victory at the finish line in Puerto de Tazacorte. Sheila Avilés and Inés Astraín, Spanish internationals, will face opposition from Vanesa Caba, Pina Deiana, Florencia Milanesi and Camille Guy.
In the men's field, many eyes will be on Yoel de Paz, from La Palma, who already knows the taste of the sweetness of victory at this distance. Fran Anguita will defend his 2024 victory, a triumph that Marco de Gasperi, Mario Olmedo, Raúl Criado, Iván Moreno, Alberto García, Tobias Baggenstos, Luca Pescollderungg, Florian Bernabeu-Seguy, Andrea Prandi, Omar Ezacriti, Diego Menéndez, Diego Cardozo and Alejandro Díaz are also aiming for.
In the Half Marathon Daniel Osanz will try to repeat last year's triumph, but the competition is fierce with Luca del Pero, winner of the Vertical Climb, as well as runners like Josep Miret, Álvaro Escuela, Boris Orlhac, Arezki Habibi, Diego Díaz, Lucas Clocher or Carlos García Hurtado. The locals Kevin González and Aythami Brito hope to maintain their important progression.
Moana Lilly Kehres is presented as the great local hope in the distance with rivals to beat such as Maude Mathys, winner of the Vertical Climb, Silvia Lara, María Benito, Alejandra Sánchez Massa or the Canary Islander Anabel de la Rosa.
The president of the Cabildo Insular de La Palma, Sergio Rodríguez, stressed that the island "is getting ready for a great day of sport, where the presence of the best runners in the world and the idiosyncrasy of the people of La Palma place the Transvulcania adidas TERREX, once again, in its rightful place in the international trail running scene".
The race can be followed live through a high-level streaming system with an unprecedented technical deployment that will reach all five continents through 60 different channels. It will also be available on Facebook and the race's YouTube channel.
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.