With the confirmed participation of the best high mountain runners, two Olympic athletes and a world medalist, the First Athletic Race “Panche Tibacuy 12K” will take place, this Sunday, March 20; The pedestrian event will have six categories and a prize pool close to 10 million pesos, assured Omar Stivens Vanegas Cobaleda, Coordinator of Culture and Sports of Tibacuy and director of the competition.
The long-distance runner from Bogotá, Andrés Ruiz from the Meta League, 33 years old, representative for Colombia in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, in the marathon event, he leads the list of male athletes in the master A category (30 to 39 years old), South American marathon champion in Asunción, Paraguay 2021 and third in the international Lala marathon in Mexico 2016, where he achieved his best personal mark of the distance 2:17:41.
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Also on the starting line in Boquerón, in the senior or elite category (18 to 29 years old), Saúl Antonio Padua Jr., from Cundinamarca, born in San Antonio de Tequendama 29 years ago, mountain sub-world champion in Tirana, Albania 2011, in the youth category.
In addition, Padua left his mark on the international scene in 2010, winning the junior race in Sierre-Zinal, Switzerland, on the Chandolin-Zinal course, breaking the course record, he was also victorious in the Mini Giir di Mont by in front of the elite athletes and, in particular, he beat the world champion, Lucio Fregona.
In the Master B category (over 40 years old), Carlos Mario Grisales, from Antioquia, who currently resides in Paipa, Boyacá, has confirmed his participation. and who represented our country, in two Olympic games, Barcelona 92 and Atlanta 96 and the world athletics championship in Paris – France 2003. Grisales, 55 years old, was the owner of the national marathon record until 2020, a record he achieved in the 1996 Boston International Marathon, when I stop the clocks at 2:11:17.
In the category over 18 years of the female branch, among others, Leidy Maritza Lozano from the Bogotá league, two-time champion of the Sopo half-marathon, Cundinamarca, national runner-up in Cross Country, and second in the Cross Country of Fondefon – Bogota Athletics League this season; the fusagasugueña Briyith Forero of the record of the Meta athletics league, winner of the Ascent to Tibacuy 30 kms 2021 and bronze medalist in the marathon test of the national sports games of Bolívar 2019; Yolanda Fernández from Boyacá, Patricia Mojica from Meta, Noemí Vachon from France and Janeth Rodallega from Valle del Cauca.
“We are working with all sports disciplines, recreation and the use of free time, from my administration to help strengthen healthy habits that identify us in the region, and so that the community is reactivated again in all fields, since it appeared. two years ago the global pandemic, Covid 19 “, said: Juan Carlos Riveros Muñoz, Mayor of Municipal de Tibacuy.
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