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2022 Valencia Marathon exhausts its 30,000 numbers six months before the event

The 42nd edition of the Trinidad Alfonso Valencia Marathon has exhausted its 30,000 bibs six months before the event, which will be held on December 4, according to the organization of the event in a statement this Wednesday.

It is the fourth consecutive time that the organization of the race, in charge of the SD Correcaminos and the Valencia City Council, exhausts the numbers to participate in the test. The first was in 2018, when 22,000 seats were put up for sale; the second in 2019, with 25,000, and the third in 2020, an edition that could not be carried out due to the pandemic, but which sold out three months after opening the 30,000 registrations for the race.

Of the 30,000 participants registered for this edition, 48 percent are foreigners, representing a total of 115 different nationalities. In addition, 28 percent are runners from the Valencian Community and 24 percent will arrive in Valencia from other Spanish regions.

In addition, 19 percent are women, which is why the number of female participation in the event continues to increase, both in percentage terms and globally, as the number of bib numbers available has also grown. Finally, more than 6,000 participants (21 percent) have chosen this test to debut at this distance.

“This year we are back with everything and it makes us very happy to be able to say that there are no bib numbers left, because that shows that the runners continue to trust us”, explained the president of SD Correcaminos, Paco Borao.

For runners who still wish to participate in the test, a waiting list has been opened to meet these requests, which will be covered as athletes already registered request a withdrawal due to injury or by making use of the return insurance if they contracted it in your registration.