Next March 16, the Zurich Marathon Barcelona 2025 will also be the 87th Spanish Marathon Championship. This has been decided by the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation (RFEA) this Thursday so that, in the same edition in which the Barcelona marathon aims to beat its own participation record with more than 20,000 registrations already sold It is also the most important national competition of this distance.
In this way, the Zurich Marató Barcelona takes over from the Zurich Marathon of Seville, which held this championship on February 18, 2024, with Ibrahim Chakir (02:07:48h) and Ester Navarrete ( 02:24:40h), sealing with these marks his preselection for the Paris Olympic Games that took place this summer. For Barcelona, 2025 will be its 9th time as the Spanish Marathon Championship (1928, 1930, 1933, 1935, 1954, 1955, 1992 and 2001), with the last occasion being in 2001, more than two decades ago (24 years ), and the most notable in its history, the inaugural of this contest in 1923 and the 1992, when the Olympic Games were held in the city. It should also be noted that, while it will be the ninth Spanish Marathon Championship to be held in Barcelona, the figure corresponds to the men’s Championship, since the women’s edition of the Spanish Championships started in 1981, arriving for the first time in Barcelona in 1992.
In 2025, the joint edition of the 46th Zurich Marató Barcelona and the 87th Spanish Marathon Championship will start from Passeig de Gràcia and the finish line will be in Arc de Triomf, as the renewed circuit of this 2024 Barcelona marathon will be repeated, flatter, faster and monumental than the previous one, with a reduction of 30 meters of positive slope, and which makes the marathon route Barcelona, one of the least curvy in the world. Also, this ninth edition of the maximum national distance competition in Barcelona makes it the second of the five largest cities in Spain to hold this championship the most times, tied with Seville, only behind Zaragoza (12) and ahead from Valencia (6) and Madrid (3); In addition to being the 14th time in history that this competition will take place in Catalonia, having previously been held in venues such as Granollers, Reus, Igualada, Lleida or Manresa.
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