The athlete, Ignacio Cardona, Llebeig Athletics Club, comes to add a new medal in its more than ample sports palmares. On this occasion, in a discipline quite atypical for him as is the race on snowshoes. A sports discipline that the xabiero has been practicing for several years.
This weekend, Ignacio Cardona hung around his neck the silver medal in the Veterans category. In the general classification, the xabiero occupied the sixth place when entering by goal with a time of 54.59. Cardona entered 20 seconds of fifth place and first veteran, José Javier Gómez.
The Fuente Dé cable car, located in the region of Liébana within the National Park of the Picos de Europa, witnessed the most important appointment of the snowshoe sport calendar in Spain. Roberto Ruiz revalidated the title of Spain Snowshoe Champion imposing himself in the Snow peaks Running held at Fuente Dé.
In women, also Cantabria Lucia Ibáñez won with a time of 1h04: 20. The 110 entered the Championship took the exit at 15 hours with unusual temperatures for the beginning of March. Sun, heat and a lot of fans marked a day to remember in Picos de Europa.
Roberto Ruiz had no rival and was the clear dominator of the race from start to finish. It was placed in the first place and little by little it was opening gap taking a considerable distance to its adversaries. Ruiz stopped the stopwatch in 47: 43. Five minutes later he crossed the finish line, David López Castán. The third step of the podium went to Felipe Iglesias with a time of 53: 26.
In females, Lucia Ibáñez gave the surprise and was crowned as new Champion of Spain imposing with solvency with a time of 1: 04.20. The show was served with the arrival of Nuria Domínguez to goal that gave everything to take the title of runner-up. That veteran still has a lot of war to give and she has shown it with a spectacular sprint to finish against the Cantabrian Anabel Merino. Only a second of difference they decided the second and third position of the championship.
