Overview
- Madrid’s Rock ’n’ Roll Running Series, which wrapped up Sunday, drew a record 47,000 runners with Kenya’s Mike Chematot taking the marathon ahead of Asefa Mengisa and Dechasa Alemu.
- Kena Girma won the women’s marathon in 2:26:00 as Chematot clocked 2:08:46, with Spain’s Jorge Puig finishing as the top local in 17th place, according to ABC.
- Entries split across three races with 23,000 in the half marathon, 15,000 in the marathon, and 9,000 in the 10K, and participants came from about 113 countries.
- SAMUR-Protección Civil staffed the course with three advanced medical posts and treated 244 people, including one runner in serious condition after a heat-related collapse in temperatures above 25°C.
- Organized by MAPOMA, the event holds World Athletics Gold Label status, features live bands along a route past landmarks like Puerta del Sol and the Prado, and now joins the Maratones Europeos Clásicos group, a move that could draw deeper elite fields and more running tourists.