This Sunday the Women’s Race was held in Seville, which this year was the final event of the national circuit of the “Pink Tide”, an initiative that spreads the fight against breast cancer.
More than 7,000 women of all ages have participated in the test, which had Carolina Marín as sponsor. The Huelva native has encouraged people not to stop doing sports and in fact has stated that will again “pick up a racket at the right time”but recognizes that his return to the slopes still has no date.
The Huelva native has suffered three cruciate ligament and meniscus tears, two in the right knee and another in the left, the last at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. “The recovery is going very well, I’m meeting the deadlines and at the moment everything is on track, but I don’t set any deadline to return.. Today the most important thing for me was the Olympic Games and that has already happened. Therefore, I’m not in any hurry. “I don’t want to run, I already ran too much with the two previous injuries, so right now I’m trying to take advantage and enjoy these types of events,” he said.
The three-time world champion and 2024 Princess of Asturias Sports Award winner received the tribute of the Seville Women’s Race, vindicating the role of women in the world of sports and joining the fight against cancer. “It has been a joy to know that more than 7,000 women have signed up to run or walk and it is very important that they are heresupporting fighting a type of disease that many women have to fight against, and because sport is health,” she indicated.
Marín, who regretted not being able to run the test, expressed his feelings. “I’m still going to need some time because the hit was hard and I don’t want to run, so I’ll pick up a racket again at the right time.”warned the Andalusian, who was seriously injured during the semifinals of the Games against the Chinese He Bing Jiao, only 11 points away from securing a new Olympic medal.
Sevilla closed the circuit of nine tests this Sunday (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, València, Madrid, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Gijón, A Coruña, Zaragoza, Barcelona and Seville) of the race, meeting the objective of reaching the figure of 100,000 women wearing the pink t-shirt with the number of the career.
Sevillian Carmen Gutiérrez achieved her fourth consecutive victory with a time of 22:56 after a 6.5 kilometer route around the María Luisa Park, starting and finishing on Rábida Street.
