Pablo Salaverría and Sara Villasante, the great favourites, have won the San Sebastián race
More than thirty San Silvestres hn flooded the streets of dozens of towns in Gipuzkoa this Saturday. The traditional New Year’s Eve races have returned with strength and joy after the end of the Covid-19 pandemic. The most numerous, as is normal, has been the one held in San Sebastián. It could be said that together with that of Beasain they are the most outstanding in the territory. But they will not be the only ones. This newspaper has tried to find all of them and has found 35: Orio, Bergara (trail), Lezo (children only), Urretxu-Zumarraga, Villabona-Zizurkil, Andoain, Donostia, Lazkao, Lasarte-Oria, Legazpi, Azpeitia , Hondarribia, Ordizia, Alegia, Deba, Arrasate, Legorreta, Zumaia, Beasain, Getaria, Ibarra, Tolosa, Oñati, Errenteria, Aretxabaleta, Hernani, Zestoa, Aia, Zarautz, Eskoriatza, Eibar, Aizarnazabal, Mendaro, Zegama and Berastegi. Some , as is the case of Urretxu-Zumarraga and Villabona-Zizurkil, run through two municipalities. Others, like the one in Errenteria, allow you to choose distance…
Saint Sebastian
Salaverría repeats and Villasante makes his debut in the race
Pablo Salaverría and Sara Villasante, the great favourites, have won the San Silvestre San Sebastian, a race that started at 2:00 p.m. The two athletes from San Sebastián have easily prevailed in Easo, especially in the case of the winner in this 2022 also of, among others, the race of the 3 beaches of the Gipuzkoan capital.
Salaverría, who already won the last edition, has completed the 7.8 kilometers in a time of 23:02, leading Frenchman Pierre Urruty by nine seconds, a regular in popular races in the territory. Yassine Bih was third with 23:21.
In the women’s race, absolute superiority for Villasante (26:51), who has won this event for the first time. She has occupied the 37th position of the global. Second has been the triathlete Helene Alberdi from Zumaia (27:52) and third has been Betty Urruty (28:05). 4,243 runners had numbers to participate in the San Silvestre San Sebastián.
Beasain
Victories for Moroccan Olympian Hicham Sigueni and his compatriot Aicha Bani
If there is a special San Silvestre in Gipuzkoa, that is, without a doubt, the one in Beasain. The veteran race returns after two years of hiatus with a participation that has exceeded 300 athletes. Among them have been the marathon runner Iraitz Arrospide and a good number of top-level long-distance runners. The races will be run in stages, from 7 to 15 years old. With the arrival of 12:00 noon, the contestants of the Sal Silvestre for adults organized by Beti Bizi will depart. The first fifteen runners have a prize: 1,200 euros for the first classified, 900 for the second and 600 for the third.
The winners of the race have been the Moroccan Olympian Hicham Sigueni (28:49 in the nearly ten kilometers of the route) and his compatriot Aicha Bani (35:58). Both races have been decided in the last meters. The podiums have been completed by Sergio Jiménez and Abdelkader Al Gham in the men’s category and Kaoutar Boulaid and Arancha Tejero in the women’s category. Aitziber Urkiola and Chakib Lachgar have been the first Gipuzkoans to finish. A total of 226 runners have completed the race.
Ordisia
The second oldest in Gipuzkoa and the latest
This Saturday the 45th edition of the San Silvestre ‘XIX Memorial Txato Caballero’ is celebrated, which has only missed its appointment with the farewell of the year in the suffered 2020. It is the second oldest urban cross in Gipuzkoa, and the latest to be held . After the Goiz Aterpe company disappeared, the responsibility for its organization falls to the City Council, with which the Txindoki Grupo Jaso Autowag At continues to collaborate.
At 5:30 p.m. the races for the little ones will begin. The first round with the youngest boys (born until 2013) will go around the circuit (372 meters). Half an hour later it will be the same race for the girls, at 5:40 p.m. it is the turn for the 2011 and 2012 junior boys who will circle the same perimeter 3 times to complete 1,116 meters. At 5:45 p.m. the baton will be picked up by the young girls of the same years with two laps of the rope, that is, 744 meters, at 5:50 p.m. an appointment with the infant boys of the years 2009 and 2010 to complete 4 laps of the circuit and 1,488 meters already 6:00 p.m. with the girls of the same age who will complete 3 laps and 1,116 meters. In the case of the popular test (6,200m) the start will be at 6:30 p.m. at the Olano bar.
Substitute
Aitor Mimenza and Jone Zabaleta, the first
Aitor Mimenza and Jone Zabaleta won Silvestre de Azpeitia there, informs Eli Aizpuru. Aitor Mimenza, from Elorrio, based in Azpeitia, and Jone Zabaleta, from Azko, will compete there in front of the almost 800 runners who have taken part in this race.
The race has been held in a 6-kilometer circuit that has been released in this edition. Mimenza needed 18 minutes and 16 seconds, while Zabaleta closed the clock in 22:15.
Toulouse
24 years of solidarity career
The public schools Samaniego and Orixe de Tolosa have organized the solidarity race for the twenty-fourth year. For the current San Silvestre race, 1,000 numbers had been put up for sale, of which one hundred were for cadets. Last year at the last moment the race was suspended. Calle Solana and El Tinglado have once again been the point of departure and arrival starting at 3:30 p.m.
s in the last editions, the second and third classified have received the trophy designed by the Orixe students and made by the Vocational Training students. As a novelty, the participants have been presented with a medal and a ticket with which they will enter the draw for the commemorative t-shirts, which in previous editions only the first participants received. Costumes are common in the last race of the year, and in this edition the most original will have a prize.
This year, the organizing schools will allocate the money raised to the food sovereignty project in Valle del Cauca, in Colombia, through the Kokuyo association.
Orio
260 participants and a great atmosphere
The San Silvestre de Orio has had a total of 260 participants. The race was held with a great atmosphere in the streets. The winners have been Aitor Etxeberria from Igeldo and Ainhoa Murua from Zarauz, reports Antxon Etxeberria.
Organized by Orioko Atletismo Taldeak, the main test took place at 12 noon with a 5-kilometer route.