Issue No. 1974
4 - 10 May 2023
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NIGHT RACE Image: Elche City Council
PREPARATORY RACE: All the runners were photographed in the Placa de Baix at the end.
MORE than 2,000 runners from all over Spain have already registered for the Elche Night Race 2023. The popular five and 10kilometre night race will be held on May 13 and will take runners through the most em blematic points of the city. Mayor of Elche, Carlos Gonzalez, confirmed: “This second edition has already surpassed the 1,800 registrations of
2022 and the great news is that 40 per cent of the runners who have signed up are women.” The mayor along with Elche’s councillor for Sports, Vicente Alberola, participated in the pre race jog on April 28 that brought together more than 200 runners. They were joined by outstanding athletes of the city such as Pedro Es teso, Alejandro Juan, Mayer Adsuar and Jessica
Guerrero (the winner of the 2022 edition). The preparatory race was five kilometres long and started at the Palacio de Altamira. It continued along the
Paseo de la Estacion, the Municipal Park and the slope of the river towards the Altamira Bridge until finishing in the Placa de Baix, where all the run ners were photographed.
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