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The Maratón Alpino Madrileño or Madrid Alpine Marathon is a trail running race that taks place on Sierra de Guadarrama, in Madrid (Spain), in mid-June. This race covers nearly 45 km with 4700 meters of altitude change. Since 2006, the start and the end points of the race are located in Cercedilla, and its course goes through Alto del Telégrafo, Puerto de Navacerrada, Bola del Mundo (also known as Alto de las Guarramillas), Puerto de Cotos, Pico Peñalara (highest point of Madrid) and the glaciar Peñalara lakes.
The Maratón Alpino Madrileño belongs to several different competition circuits, as Circuito Alpino [1], Buff Skyrunning World Trail Series [2] and also this race takes part of the Federation of Sports at Altitude (FSA) calendar [3].
History
The Numbers of the Maratón Alpino Madrileño
- Location: Sierra de Guadarrama (Madrid, Spain)
- Length: 44 km aproximados
- Maximum height: 2.430 m.
- Minimum heigth: 1.188 m.
- Total altitude change: 4.700 m.
- 40% of the race is located above 2.000 m altitude.
- 70% of the race is technical terrain.
- Cutt-off time: 9 hours.
Winners
| Year | Men winner | Women winner |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Joseba Cubillo de la Hoz | Sonia Morán Luis |
| 1998 | José Félix Magunagoicoechea Fernández | Sonia Morán Luis |
| 1999 | Óscar Balsells Sales | Agnès Riera Ferrán |
| 2000 | Jordi Martín Pascual | Yolanca Santiuste Blázquez |
| 2001 | Quico Soler Escamez | Anna Serra Salame |
| 2002 | Esteve Canal Ferres | Anna Serra Salame |
| 2003 | Agustí Roc Amador | Corinnes Favre |
| 2004 | Luis Alfonso Rodríguez Robledo | Gloria Serrazina |
| 2005 | Fernando García Herreros | Ana Isabel Estévez García |
| 2006 | Manuel Perozo Mosquero | Gloria Serrazina |
| 2007 | Pedro José Hernández Sánchez | Salud Díaz García |
| 2008 | Andrew Symonds | Mónica Aguilera i Viladomiu |
Survivals y Megasurvivals
The Maratón Alpino Madrileño is the only race in the world where there are no finishers, but survivals. This special word refers to all the runners that reach the finish line of the race. The use of the word survival reflects in a special way the hardness of this alpine race.
In addition, the survivals of all the editions are called megasurvivals. Current survivals are (in alphabetical order):
- Manuel Bejarano Vázquez
- Jesús Blázquez Álvarez
- Ángel Bonilla de Francisco
- José Manuel Calleja Checa
- Jesús Castilla Catalán
- Basilio García Pérez (chase/support runner)
- Enrique Garrandes Torralba
- José Antonio Rodrigo Lozano
- Francisco Rodríguez García
- José Luis Sánchez García
- José Luis Santos Hernández
Records
- Masculino: Andrew Symonds (United Kingdom): 4h09:27 (2008)
- Femenino: Mónica Aguilera (Spain): 5h29:33 (2008)