The race will bring together a hundred of the best specialists in mountain races of the moment.
The Transvulcania adidas TERREX no longer has any brakes. The fifteenth edition of the race will be held from Thursday (May 8th) to Saturday (May 10th) and will once again have among its registered runners many of the best mountain athletes of the moment after having sold out weeks before its celebration.
Elite and popular athletes from the five continents will be on the starting line of the different distances programmed and will opt to inscribe their name in gold letters in the list of winners of an event that has recovered its essence and its original routes and is once again a sure show at world level.
Many have been the protagonists of the 14 previous editions where extraordinary feats of sport have been experienced and many are those who hope to become part of the legend forged through the kilometres of the trails and tracks of the race on the Isla Bonita.
In the main distance, the ultra marathon, the “Míster Transvulcania”, Luis Alberto Hernando, will be back, a runner who despite his veteran age is capable of putting on a race bib and leaving his life in the effort to reach the top of the podium. The runner from Burgos heads a powerful Spanish armada for this edition, which will also include Pablo Villa, Andreu Simón, Manu Anguita, Borja Fernández, Jesús Gil García, Andrés García and another incombustible veteran, Jordi Gamito.
Dmitry Mityaev is back for another year in search of that first place on the podium that he has come close on so many occasions. The Andorra-based rider will face stiff competition from Americans David Sinclair and Matt Daniels; Italians Andreas Reiterer and Gilles Roux; Slovakian Peter Frano; Frenchmen Kevin Vermeulen, Lambert Santelli, Robin Juillaguet, Eliot Retulli, Noel Giordano and Thibault Leroy; Switzerland’s Ramon Manetsch, Harry Jones from the UK, Germany’s Charles Hamilton, Argentina’s Santos Gabriel Rueda, Japan’s Kouken Ogasawara, Australia’s Charles Hamilton and Latvia’s Gvido Kalnins. We will also have to keep a close eye on the runners from the islands who are sure to play a great role, such as Estanislao Rivero or the locals Yonet Gonzalez and Samuel Fernández.
The range of possibilities among the women is quite wide with New Zealand’s Ruth Croft trying to revalidate the triumph she achieved last year with the record of the race. She will not find it easy with French riders such as Blandine L’Hirondel, Anne Lisse Rouset, who already knows what it means to be on the podium, Sarah Vieuille, Sabine Ehrström, Léa Duhet or Anaïs Duval. The Spanish warrior, Azara García, will also be looking to dethrone Croft, along with the Italians Elisa Desco and Martina Valmassoi, who already know what it is like to win the race, along with Marina Cugnetto and Giulia Marchesoni. The presence of the neutral runner Ekaterina Mityaeva, the Japanese Yuri Yoshizumi, Transvulcania legend, or the Canadian debutant Geneviève Asselin-Demers, the South African Megan Mackenzie, the German Michelle Hassel, the Austrian Kristin Berglund or the Ecuadorian Jessica Tipán also stands out. The evolution of Claudia Mola from the Canary Islands and local runner Ana Begoña González will also be followed.
The level of the runners who will compete for the victory in the Marathon distance is also extraordinary with the national power represented by the international runners Sheila Avilés and Inés Astraín and Vanesa Caba and with the tough competition of runners such as the Italian Pina Deiana, the Argentinean Florencia Milanesi or the French Camille Guy.
Yoel de Paz, from La Palma, who has established himself among the elite of trail running, will be looking to repeat his triumph of 2023, knowing that next to him on the starting line will be top-level runners such as Fran Anguita, winner of last year’s edition, the incombustible Italian Marco de Gasperi, Mario Olmedo, Raúl Criado, Iván Moreno, Alberto García, Tobias Baggenstos, Luca Pescollderungg, Florian Bernabeu-Seguy, Andrea Prandi, Omar Ezacriti, Diego Menéndez, Diego Cardozo, Tenerife’s José David Lutzardo and the local Alejandro Díaz.
In the Half Marathon the level of the runners is also extraordinary with Daniel Osanz looking to be crowned in Transvulcania adidas TERREX for the second consecutive year and presenting himself as a great rival to be beaten by a group of top class contenders. Luca del Peno, Josep Miret, Álvaro Escuela, Boris Orlhac, Arezki Habibi, Diego Díaz, Lucas Clocher or Carlos García Hurtado are runners to follow closely. Local runners Kevin González and Aythami Brito will also have to see how they evolve in the race.
Moana Lilly Kehres is the great hope among the women in the Half Marathon. The local runner already knows what it is like to get on the podium in her home race and wants to continue taking big steps with the elite of the world trail running. Moana will have to fight with runners like the French Maude Mathys, the Spanish Silvia Lara, María Benito, Alejandra Sánchez Massa or the Canarian Anabel de la Rosa.
The always spectacular and explosive Vertical Climb will serve to kick off the competitive activities of this fifteenth edition of Transvulcania adidas TERREX.
In the very hard ramps that go from the Puerto de Tazacorte to the tower of El Time, the riders who want to start this year’s edition with good sensations and success will leave their lives in their hands again.
This is the case of the North American David Sinclair, who will also take on the shortest race and who will be opposed by Luca del Pero, Iván Moreno, Boris Orlhac, Arezki Habibi, Diego Díaz, the Argentinean Ezequiel Pauluzak, Carlos García, Kevin González and Aythami Brito, who performed so well in the last edition.
Moana Lilly Kehres will once again focus the attention of the local fans in her fight to repeat the podium, but she will not have it easy with the competition of Maude Mathys, Yuri Yoshizumi, who knows the route very well, Raquel Casares, Charlotte Cotton, Silvia Lara, Estela Guerra, María Benito or Idoia Pérez.
The Transvulcania adidas TERREX is organised by the Cabildo Insular de La Palma through the public company SODEPAL, with the support of the Government of the Canary Islands, through the Department of Tourism and Promotur with its brand ‘Islas Canarias Latitud de Vida’, as well as the companies 226ERS, Hotel H10 Taburiente Playa, Hotel La Palma Princess, Hotel Meliá La Palma, Fred. Olsen Express, Cicar, Spar La Palma, Coca-Cola, Libbys and Isola.
