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Expected start of UCAM Falcotrail HG 2016 (02/12/2016)

The director of UCAM Falcotrail HG, Miguel Ángel González, presented today, in the Camelot Room of the locality Falcotrail 2016. Also attended by the Councilor for Sports of the City of Cehegín, Joaquín López , Director General of Sports of CARM, Alonso Gómez, Director of the Institute of Tourism, Manuel Fernández-Delgado, Sports Director of the UCAM, Pablo Rosique and members of the Municipal Corporation.

In addition, in the same have been present cehegineras athletes Loli de Gea and Ana Carrasco, Cehegín Civil Protection head, José de Moya;

One of the most emblematic people of this UCAM Falco Trail, Francisco Conteras, "Super Paco, the Olympic Champion David Cal, as well as the marketing director of HG, Jordi Rodríguez, with all of them, the organization of the Falco Trail has wanted Have a detail imposing as a gift a Cross of Cehegín, designed by Nicolás de Maya.

The event will be held this coming weekend.

The race will be on Sunday, December 4, and the previous events will be split between Friday 2 and Saturday 3 December.

More than 2,000 athletes from 30 different countries are expected to attend Cehegín to participate in one of the three modalities of the test.

There will be many acts to be held before Falcotrail, such as the production of the short film "Super Paco", book presentation, talks, conferences or interview with world champions Luis Alberto Hernando and Maite Maiora.

On Saturday will be held the Ultra Resistance test that will be 100 kilometers and will have more than 5,000 meters of positive gradient, a novelty this year that is exclusive for those athletes who can prove an experience in tests of similar hardness.

Also on Sunday will be the 45-kilometer marathon, the event's premier event, whose winner and record of last year's edition was the Moroccan Zaid Ait Malek, along with the Portuguese runner Ester Alves.

In addition, a test of 16 kilometers will be made suitable for all the public, and will also have room in this event the traditional infancy races in which children from the three years of age will be able to participate.

The complete program of events can be seen at http://falcotrail.com/programa/

In total, approximately 2,300 athletes from thirty different nationalities will participate, summing up the participation in the three core events of the event.

Among them are the current world champions Luis Alberto Hernando and Maite Maiora, along with some of the most valued names of this discipline such as Kim Collison (Great Britain), Tim Pleijte (Netherlands), André Jonsson (Sweden), Pedro Bianco (Spain), Nuno Silva (Portugal), Simon Grimstrup (Denmark), Silvia Oliveri (Italy), Mercedes Pila (Ecuador) and three components of the Spanish National Team runner-up, Pau Capell, Tere Nimes And Laia Cañes.

We remind you that the UCAM Falco Trail HG 2016 is a mountain track test registered in the ITRA (International Trail Running Association), the largest international body responsible for controlling and coordinating everything concerning this modality.

It is an event belonging to the Spain Ultra Cup, a competition composed of five other races this event closes that championship and is also scoring to get the participation in the mythical Ultra Trail of Mont Blanc, specifically are at stake three of the fifteen points needed for the Classification to this test.

This last fact and the peculiar route that compose it, has attributed to the UCAM Falco Trail HG a great prestige, since during these six years it has managed to gather the most important athletes of the world in this modality.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín

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