Businessman Juan Roig is the president of Mercadona but also Trinidad Alfonso Foundation organizer and sponsor Valencia MarathonI promised this Sunday million euro for the winning athlete world record marathon in this test.
Roig made this announcement at the end of the 2023 edition, accompanied by Trinidad Alfonso Valencia Marathon director Paco Borao. The winner was Sisay Lemma and broke the test record It completes in 2:01:48. The time is just over a minute longer than the time you set. Kelvin Kiptum in Chicago In the same year, he set the current record of 2:00:35.
“We would like to announce that we will give 1 million euros when the world record is broken. if you do this in Valencia. We will give half a million to Paco (Borao) and half a million to the winner, because one of our hopes is that the record will be broken in Valencia,” Roig stated with a laugh.
Quadruple the reward
In this edition, the organization’s 250,000 euros for the person who breaks the world recordIn both men’s and women’s categories.
The businessman said that he was sure that one day this record would be broken in this test, but he did not know when this would happen. “But we will fight for it,” he assured.
Roig emphasized how testing has been integrated into the city. Valencian Community and in Spain. “We wanted it to be the most important event in the city after Fallas and we are happy with it. There are no recommendations here, you see the labor culture, you fight against yourself here and it is very nice.”
Roig praised the vision of lSD Correcaminos, who introduced the test in the eighties He shared his organization and said that the test, which has a budget of approximately 6.5 million, is close to being “one hundred percent sustainable”.