British ultra running super star, Lizzy Hawker, has won the 2010 edition of Trangrancanria.
(PHOTO: Alberto Cardona)
The Swiss based North Face runner lead from the start, giving most of the top men a run for their money in the 123km ultra marathon across the beautiful island of Gran Canaria. At the 83km aid station in El Garañon Lizzy was in 6th position over-all, and was feeling very strong. With no pressure from the other girls in the race, she was able to cruise the last 40km finishing in 11th position over-all, beating many top male athletes.
The mens race was won by Bejarano Miguel Heras (13 hours, 04 minutes 14 seconds), who took the lead near the start and held it to the end. This was his first time running Transgrancanaria which he described as very hard and the biggest win of his short ultradistance running career.
Over an hour later finished Arnau Julia in 2nd place, repeating the same postion as last year. In 3rd was last year's champion Adolfo Aguilar.
(PHOTO: Alberto Cardona)
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