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The Eritrean Amlesom frustrates the Spanish victory in the last meters of the San Silvestre
*The rider has also achieved with his time (28:09) the third best mark in the history of the race, which this year celebrated its 52nd edition.
*In the female category Kenyan Brigid Kosgei was imposed.
*The last two years had won the Turk-Kenyan Mike Kigen, who was injured while preparing the San Silvestre.
*The last time a Spaniard took the victory was in 2003 (Chema Martinez).
05.01.2017
The Eritrean Nguse Amsolom foiled the first Spanish victory in 13 years in the San Silvestre Vallecana, the race most populous in the world with 42,000 runners to beat Ilias Fifa a few meters from the finish of the 52 edition, in the female category was as winning the Kenyan Kosgei Brigid.
Amsolom won with 28:09 , the third best mark in the history of the race. Two seconds later came Fifa , European champion in 5000, and then with 28:26, Aragonese Toni Abbey completed the podium.
Neither the cold (3 degrees) or high levels of pollution in the capital, forcing the council to restrict traffic two days earlier deterred the mass of runners who gathered with his white shirt next to the Santiago Bernabeu to go 10 Kilometers to the Vallecas stadium.
In the absence of the winner of the last two years , the Turkish-Kenyan Mike Kigen , who was injured while preparing for the race, the favorite label slung the Eritrean Nguse Amlosom, 30, ninth in the Olympic final of 10,000 Rio And with a mark of 59:39 in half marathon.
The Spanish disciple Jerónimo Bravo won the San Silvestre de Crevillente in 2015 on the same 10 kilometer course attacking from the start and in Madrid he wanted to apply the same tactic.
Toni Abadía had expressed, on the eve, his fears that Amsolom would beat all the others "a good sanding" because - he argued - the Eritrean, who has made podium in 19 of his last 25 races on asphalt, "does not like Leave things to the end ".
The race was presented as a fight between Amsolom and the Spanish navy, which had been conjured up for victory to be home for the first time in 13 years. The last was conducted by Chema Martinez in 2003.
With a downward stroke until the eighth kilometer and rising in the last stretch, the San Silvestre International began at 19.57 hours with 2,000 elite runners.
Briton Chris Thompson, runner-up in Europe of 10,000 in Barcelona 2010, set the tone at the start, ahead of a few meters. In their pursuit they left Ilias Fifa - champion of Europe of 5,000 - and Amsolom, so that the package regrouped when passing by the second kilometer, always downhill.
The friendly profile of the route ran through Serrano, Puerta de Alcalá, Cibeles, Atocha and Avenida Ciudad de Barcelona, until penetrating the neighborhood of Vallecas, when the floor began to rise to the finish line.
Lured by his coach, Jerónimo Bravo, the Eritrean had not escaped since the start and the Spanish army marched close together, aware that the difficult thing was at the end.
Jesús España, second in 2001 and 2014, pulled the front group. At 38, the Spaniard knows the race to perfection. Its impulse left up to seven and served as a shuttle to the Eritrean, who in the sixth kilometer launched an attack for which only FIFA had answer.
The victory was to be decided in a heads-up between Amsolom and Fifa through the narrow streets of Vallecas. The FC Barcelona athlete had a reputation for not being fast in the end, but in the European Championship of Amsterdam he won the title this year at the sprint.
Amlosom changed in the last kilometer, took a few meters ahead but Fifa again hunt him, but could not prevent the Eritrean beating him inside the stadium.
In the women 's race Kosgei won with a time of 32:07 , followed by the Polish Karolina Jarzynska with 32:13 . Spanish first, third, was the Madrid Azucena Diaz ( 33:08 ), and then it came Gemma Martin and veteran Nuria Fernandez, fifth with 40.
Two hours before had played the same way the San Silvestre Popular , which ended with the victory of the Castilian-Manchego David Bascuñana , the Numantino club, with a time of 30:11 , ahead of Borja Pérez Batet (30:18) and Juan Antonio Cuadrillero (30:28).
In the women won the Romanian -Resident in Spain Cristina Giurcanu , Clinics Club Menorca, with 35:09 , followed by Madrid remember Arroyo ( 36:20 ) and Maite Rodriguez Garcia ( 37:00 ).
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