Mohamed Attaoui, in the men’s category (4 minutes 21 seconds) and Marta Mitjans, who broke the event record with a time of 4:44, in the women’s category, have been crowned champions of the 38th edition of the Manuel Pancorbo Autumn International Urban Mile, which, as every October 12th, took place on the course laid out by the Municipal Sports Board on Virgen de la Cabeza Street.
The male winner, who had already claimed the title here in Jaén in 2024 and who finished second last year, prevailed in a tight finish in which the first three finished with the same time. Carlos Saez finished in second place and Víctor Ruiz took third.
Mitjans, for her part, has secured her second victory in the Jaén Mile after first narrowing the lead held by Josephine Sembeyo in the early laps, and secondly beating her in a thrilling sprint to the finish line. The also two-time winner and third in the last edition clocked 4 minutes and 44 seconds, thereby establishing a new course record in the women’s category. The Kenyan crossed the line one second later and Carla Gallardo completed the podium with a time of 4:48. In this way, the Palencia-born runner matched the position she achieved in the Night Urban Race of San Antón earlier this year.
The Councillor for Sports Beatriz López has congratulated the winners in all categories and highlighted that “we have once again enjoyed a great morning of top-level athletics and everyone has had the chance to see that Jaén is a city perfectly suited to host top competitions at national and international levels.” “The capital is San Antón, it is the night race and it is, of course, the mile, a fixture of such importance and scale that only a few races of this distance can boast in Spain and beyond,” she added, concluding by thanking Caja Rural de Jaén, represented by its Deputy General Director, Álvaro Martínez, “for their firm and continued support and their commitment to the Municipal Sports Board and this event.”
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The traditional athletics festival—the 38th Manuel Pancorbo Autumn International Mile—that perfectly blends elite athletes with recreational runners began at 10:30 a.m. The program, in addition to the two international races, also included ten other races: sub-12, sub-14 and sub-16 for both boys and girls; sub-18 and sub-20 for men; sub-18, sub-20, sub-23, senior and master women; master men and sub-23 and senior men. In total, nearly 300 runners participated. The organizers awarded trophies to the top three finishers in each category.
The mile could be viewed live, via streaming, on the official YouTube channel of “Jaén, City of Athletics” and, from 12:55 p.m., on RTVE Play, the free streaming service of Radio Televisión Española. Teledeporte will broadcast it tomorrow, Tuesday, October 13, in a delayed broadcast at 12:15 p.m. Canal Sur TV, for its part, will do so on Saturday, October 17, at 5:30 p.m., on the Andalucía Televisión channel.
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