{"id":264891,"date":"2026-09-28T18:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/39th-panes-potes-foot-race-the-asphalt-classic-of-the-picos-de-europa-athletics-news\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T18:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:28:27","slug":"39th-panes-potes-foot-race-the-asphalt-classic-of-the-picos-de-europa-athletics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/39th-panes-potes-foot-race-the-asphalt-classic-of-the-picos-de-europa-athletics-news\/","title":{"rendered":"39th Panes\u2013Potes Foot Race: The Asphalt Classic of the Picos de Europa &#8211; Athletics News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It is very difficult to maintain a career at the top of the national standings for four decades, and even harder when the career is not the usual one, when it is not about the typical race of the usual distance, in a big city that makes it easy for fans to access the start and finish lines; and even more so when it is neither a pure asphalt race nor a pure mountain one\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Pan\u00e9s \u2013 Potes is a test that, as it approaches its fortieth edition, still retains a purist race DNA, with a start in the Asturian town of Panes and a finish in the Cantabrian capital of the Li\u00e9bana region, covering 28.5 km with a positive elevation gain of 300 meters. It is one of the few races we know in Spain that runs across two Autonomous Communities. Back in the late 80s and early 90s, some bold members of the <strong>Asociaci\u00f3n Cultural Deportiva Li\u00e9bana<\/strong> managed to create and raise a road race that attracted international-level athletes such as <strong>C\u00e1ndido<\/strong> and <strong>Javier Alario<\/strong>, <strong>Paco Villameriel<\/strong>, <strong>Pablo Mart\u00edn<\/strong>, <strong>Nobel Lado<\/strong>, <strong>Pilar Rom\u00e1n<\/strong>, <strong>M\u00aa Carmen Su\u00e1rez<\/strong>, <strong>Irene Pelayo<\/strong> or <strong>Fabi\u00e1n Roncero<\/strong>, among many other illustrious names of the international peloton.<\/p>\n<p>Este 2026 la Subida Pedestre estrenaba trazado y no lo hac\u00eda variando punto de inicio o de final ni tampoco a la organizaci\u00f3n se le ocurri\u00f3 la idea de abandonar el fondo del Desfiladero para recorrer las cumbres del Macizo Oriental de Picos de Europa. Despu\u00e9s de 7 a\u00f1os de obras, el Desfiladero de La Hermida estrenaba firme y anchura del recorrido con nuevos puentes que hacen m\u00e1s f\u00e1cil el d\u00eda a d\u00eda de los habitantes del Valle de Li\u00e9bana en sus desplazamientos.<\/p>\n<p>Comme il est devenu habituel, \u00e0 9 heures du matin, le d\u00e9part \u00e9tait donn\u00e9 depuis le pont de Panes \u00e0 plus de 300 participantes cette fois-ci. La temp\u00e9rature, juste en dessous de 20 \u00b0C, \u00e9tait l\u2019id\u00e9ale pour courir, ciel nuageux et un invit\u00e9 inattendu, le vent qui, pour contrarier, cette ann\u00e9e a souffl\u00e9 de face tout du long \u00e0 travers le Desfiladero, une influence notable surtout dans les derniers kilom\u00e8tres, apr\u00e8s Lebe\u00f1a, pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment dans la section du parcours o\u00f9 s\u2019accumule la plus forte pente et o\u00f9 dispara\u00eet l\u2019abri naturel des parois calcaires du Massif d\u2019\u00c1ndara, celui qui d\u00e9limite les bassins des rivi\u00e8res Duje et Deva; ce dernier est celui que les coureurs ont toujours \u00e0 leurs c\u00f4t\u00e9s tout au long du parcours.<\/p>\n<p>Sportivement, la course f\u00e9minine a \u00e9t\u00e9 domin\u00e9e en tout temps par la coureuse originaire d\u2019Almer\u00eda et r\u00e9sidant dans le joli village d\u2019Espinama, <strong>Ana Cristina Portillo<\/strong>, qui n\u2019a pas pu se rel\u00e2cher puisqu\u2019elle a constamment \u00e9t\u00e9 suivie par la tenante du titre de 2025, <strong>Vanesa del R\u00edo<\/strong>. Les deux athl\u00e8tes sont arriv\u00e9es au dernier kilom\u00e8tre s\u00e9par\u00e9es par \u00e0 peine une centaine de m\u00e8tres, mais au final c\u2019est la Lebaniega d\u2019adoption qui, \u00e0 coup d\u2019un dernier rel\u00e2ch\u00e9, a su faire d\u00e9coller l\u2019adversaire du Pi\u00e9lagos, arriv\u00e9e \u00e0 seulement 33 secondes de la gagnante. Le podium a \u00e9t\u00e9 compl\u00e9t\u00e9 par <strong>Natalia Gonz\u00e1lez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-mainarticle__main-media\" data-ck-asset-wrapper=\"\">\n<figure class=\"c-mainarticle__fig\"><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Entre ellas se jug\u00f3 la victoria en un mano a mano. Hasta la salida del Desfiladero, el l\u00edder fue el atleta de Torrelavega, <strong>David G\u00f3mez<\/strong>, que parec\u00eda que este a\u00f1o s\u00ed que iba a llevarse el gato al agua, \u00e9l mismo lo ve\u00eda claro pensando que este a\u00f1o s\u00ed que romper\u00eda con la maldici\u00f3n de la Subida en la que nunca ha conseguido hasta el momento imponerse, pero de nuevo el desnivel al paso de la carrera por Castro de Cillorigo se le hizo bola, circunstancia esta muy bien aprovechada por su rival m\u00e1s fuerte, <strong>Adri\u00e1n Briz<\/strong>, que fue el que tuvo el honor de levantar los brazos y la cinta bajo el arco de meta. El tercer hombre en meta fue el atleta local, de Turieno, en pleno valle de Li\u00e9bana, <strong>Rub\u00e9n Galnares.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>La edici\u00f3n del 2027 ser\u00e1 la que cumpla con un n\u00famero redondo, el 40, esperamos que se mantenga el valioso apoyo del Gobierno de Cantabria, del Ayuntamiento de Potes, as\u00ed como de la Fundaci\u00f3n Camino Lebaniego, siempre apoyando eventos deportivos y culturales para que el pr\u00f3ximo a\u00f1o estemos hablando de una edici\u00f3n de cumplea\u00f1os a la altura de una de las Cl\u00e1sicas del calendario nacional. <\/p>\n<h4>Complete Classifications<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.athletics.co.ke\/39th-panes-potes-foot-race-the-asphalt-classic-of-the-picos-de-europa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is very difficult to maintain a career at the top of the national standings for four decades, and even harder when the career is not the usual one, when it is not about the typical race of the usual distance, in a big city that makes it easy for fans to access the start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6802],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athetics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}