Kamworor ends 2025 with comfortable win in Spain
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Elsewhere in Italy, Kenyan youngster Charles Rotich was sixth at the BOclassic road race in Bolzano
Three-time world half marathon champion Geoffrey Kamworor ended his 2025 season in style after surging to a comfortable win at the San Silvestre Vallecana road race in Madrid, Spain on Wednesday, 31 December.
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Kamworor, who had been looking to put behind a seventh-place finish at the Chicago Marathon in October, led from the gun in the 10km race, setting a fierce pace to power home in a time of 27:41.
Geoffrey Kamworor y Marta GarcÃa, cruzan la meta del Estadio de Vallecas como ganadores de la prueba profesional de la San Silvestre 2025https://t.co/XlmzmYixsr#SanSilvestreTM pic.twitter.com/BoZ6AMWoU0
— Telemadrid (@telemadrid) December 31, 2025
The Kenyan in the early stints of the World Athletics Elite Label event was closely followed by a trio of Spaniards - Aaron Las Heras, Jesus Ramos and Nassim Haasous.
That quartet covered the opening downhill three kilometers in 8:06, and shortly after the fourth kilometer, first Hassaous, and then Las Heras, ceded ground, while Kamworor and a brave Ramos remained at the helm to record 13:28 by halfway.
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Ramos’s resistance came to an end some 19 minutes into the race when he simply could not follow the two-time world cross country champion’s brisk pace.
From then on, the 33-year-old Kamworor extended his lead to finish in 27:41, some 15 seconds clear of the 29-year-old Spaniard, while Las Heras completed the podium thanks to a 28:00 performance.
With the win, Kamworor, a double New York Marathon champion, joined fellow Kenyans such as Eliud Kipchoge, Mike Kigen and Leonard Komen, all of whom had tasted victory at the historic Madrid event.
Elsewhere in Europe, Kenyan youngster Charles Rotich finished sixth at the BOclassic Alto Adige road race, in Bolzano, Italy, also on Wednesday.
The 20-year-old, who was making his second appearance at the World Athletics Label race, was in the lead group in the first five 1250m laps, but faded at the end to clock 28:36.
The race was won by Ethiopia’s two-time world 10,000m silver medalist Yomif Kejelcha, who ran a course record of 27:42, taking 17 seconds off the time set by his compatriot Telahun Haile Bekele last year.
