Kenyan Sebastian Sawe wins an emotional Valencia marathon in memory of the DANA victims

The Kenyan runner Sebastian Sawe (2:02:06) has won the forty-fourth edition of the Valencia Trinidad Alfonso Marathon, which started this Sunday at 8:15 after an exciting tribute to the victims of DANA. Minutes before the start, a message of gratitude was made public over the public address system to the 35,0000 participants for having attended the test in circumstances as complicated as those that Valencia has experienced this week and the regional anthem of the Community was heard. Valencian in enormous silence. The podium was completed by the Ethiopian Deresa Geleta (2:02:38) and the Kenyan Daniel Mateiko (2:04:24).

The volunteer in the cleaning and reconstruction work Oleksandra Makarchuk Chorneychuk has been in charge of firing the first of the nine exits after which the ritual of playing the song has been completed Free by the Valencian singer Nino Bravo, but to which has been added my landanother of the classics in his repertoire as a symbol of “union of the Valencian people.”

The first meters of the route run over a bridge on which an arch has been installed with the motto Força, ValenciaIn addition, the runners pass next to a huge Valencian senyera and a few meters later a second banner with the flags of the Community and Spain and a black crepe and the motto Valencia, city of running.

Representatives of the rescue and security forces that have participated these days in the cleaning and reconstruction work will be in charge of giving the following departures. The Valencia Local Police, the UME, the National Police, the Civil Guard, the Valencia Fire Department, Civil Protection and two partners from the SD Correcaminos, organizer of the test, will be represented. In addition, the organization has remembered with tarps both on the starting bridge and on the walkway of the finish line the names of the towns affected by DANA.

The race started with 10 degrees, a temperature slightly lower than expected, and it is expected that 20 degrees will be reached when the last runners enter the finish line at 2 p.m. This rise in temperature will cause the high humidity that existed early in the morning to gradually decrease, with no chance of rain.