The race will announce tomorrow the winners of the different distances programmed for this special anniversary.
Everything is ready in Transvulcania adidas TERREX for the celebration of the biggest day of its fifteenth edition. The race, which officially opened competitively this Thursday with the Vertical Climb, has tomorrow (Saturday, May 10) a new date with its own history.
After the brilliance with which Transvulcania adidas TERREX returned to the heart of the people of La Palma in 2024 in a race where up to five race records were broken, for this 2025, on such a special anniversary, the expectation is as high as the certainty that there will be a good show by the participating runners.
More than 3,000 athletes will take the start in the three competitive distances tomorrow with representation from 50 countries and the five continents and beyond the names of possible favorites to win what is breathed in La Palma is tranquility to see again its most famous event in all its splendor. That was the mission of the organization of the race after last year’s success and now, the rest is in the legs of the runners.
In the ultra marathon distance the range of possibilities of victory is wide open and with difficult prognosis.The Spanish male armada has already warned that it will go all out, headed by the incombustible Luis Alberto Hernando and a legion formed by Pablo Villa, Andreu Simón, Manu Anguita, Borja Fernández, Jesús Gil García, Andrés García and Jordi Gamito.
The competition will be tough because riders like the Americans David Sinclair and Matt Daniels, as well as Andreas Reiterer, Gilles Roux, Peter Frano, Kevin Vermeulen, Lambert Santelli, Elliot Retulli, Noel Giordano, Thibaut Leroy, Ramon Manetsch, Harry Jones, Charles Hamilton, Santois Gabriel Rueda, Kouken Ogasawara, Charles Hamilton, Gvido Kalnins or the Canarian Estanislao Garcia, Yonet Gonzalez and Samuel Fernandez.
Among the girls, the rival to beat has a name of her own. New Zealand’s Ruth Croft wants to repeat her success of 2024, including the record of the event and go a little further than her stratospheric competition last year. Blandine L’Hirondel, Anne Lisse Rouset, Sarah Vieuille, Sabine Ehrstrom, Lea Duhet, Anais Duval, Elisa Desco, Martina Valmasoi, Marina Cugnetto, Giulia Marchesoni, Ekatrina Mityaeva, Genevieve Asselin-Demers, Megan Mackenzie, Michelle Hassell, Kristin Berglund and Jessica Tipán are also contenders for the crown of the race in La Palma, where the Canary Islanders Claudia Mola and Ana Begoña González and also the Japanese Yuri Yoshizumi, one of the legends of the race of the Isla Bonita, will have special attention.
The Marathon has an important list of high-level runners who will try to win the prestigious victory at the finish line in Puerto de Tazacorte. Sheila Avilés and Inés Astraín, Spanish internationals, will face the opposition of Vanesa Caba, Pina Deiana, Florencia Milanesi or Camille Guy.
Among the men’s field there will be many eyes on the palmero Yoel de Paz, who already knows the taste of the sweetness of victory in this distance. Fran Anguita will defend his 2024 triumph, a triumph to which 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 and Alejandro Díaz are also aspiring.
In the Half Marathon Daniel Osanz will try to repeat last year’s triumph, but the competition is fierce with Luca del Pero, winner of the Vertical Climb, as well as runners like Josep Miret, Álvaro Escuela, Boris Orlhac, Arezki Habibi, Diego Díaz, Lucas Clocher or Carlos García Hurtado. The locals Kevin González and Aythami Brito hope to maintain their important progression.
Moana Lilly Kehres is presented as the great local hope in the distance with rivals to beat as Maude Mathys, winner of the Vertical Climb, with record of the race, Silvia Lara, Maria Benito, Alejandra Sanchez Massa or the Canary Anabel de la Rosa.
The president of the Cabildo Insular de La Palma, Sergio Rodriguez, stressed that the island “is preparing for a great day in the sport, where the presence of the best runners in the world and the idiosyncrasy of the public Palmero place the Transvulcania adidas TERREX, again, in the place it deserves within the international panorama of trail running.
The race can be followed live through a high-level streaming with an unprecedented technical deployment that will reach the five continents through 60 different channels. It will also be available on Facebook and the race’s YouTube channel.
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.
