The Valencia Half-Marathon runs out of its 22,000 race bibs and opens a waiting list

The Valencia Trinidad Alfonso Zurich Half-Marathon, held by SD Correcaminos [‘Road-Runner’] club has run out of its 22,000 race bibs six months before the big day on the 22^nd of October 2023. Spain’s best 21km race and the world’s fastest circuit has sold out for the fifth year in a row. The number of runners has grown yet again, with 2,000 more race bibs than in 2022.

Today, there are 22,000 runners for this 32nd edition of the race, of whom 56% hail from the Valencian Community, 21% from the rest of Spain, and 23% from abroad. The share of women runners has also risen from 26% to 27%, reflecting a long-term trend. The number of entrants running the distance for the first time has swollen to almost 4,000.

Paco Borao, SD Correcaminos’ President said, “It is great news that all the race bibs have sold out again this year”. He stressed that “the whole team has been working hard to enhance the trial and to make sure that all the runners thoroughly enjoy it”.

Waiting list open

Those runners who have been left without a race bib but still want to take part in the next edition of the race on the 22nd of October 2023 can put their names down on the waiting list that has now been opened. Those on the list get a chance of a race bib as some runners cancel their entries because of injury, whether or not they took out cancellation insurance when they made their entries.