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The athlete Abel Ant\u00f3n<\/b>, two-time marathon world champion and the 1997 Prince of Asturias Award for Sports, will run the final marathon of his career in Berlin in 2027 alongside the Aural Team<\/b>, as announced this Friday at the congress commemorating the 60th anniversary of Aural Hearing Centers<\/b> being held this weekend in Valencia.<\/p>\n
The choice of the German capital<\/b> by the Soriano long-distance runner, world champion in Athens in 1997 and Seville in 1999, for his farewell is not accidental<\/b>, as it is one of the great cities where he achieved long-distance success in 1996, with a time of 2:09:15<\/b>. It was also the stage where in 2005 he began his association as an Ambassador of Aural<\/b> and where the Aural Team<\/b> and @auralsuperaci\u00f3n were born, an initiative created to give visibility to untreated hearing loss<\/b>, to combat the stigma associated with this condition and to transmit a message of overcoming<\/b>: that limits are set by each person, both in sport and in life.<\/p>\n
As part of this final athletic challenge, Abel Ant\u00f3n will also lead the preparation of a group of runners linked to Aural<\/b> who will participate in the Berlin Marathon under the motto \u201cThat untreated hearing loss should not limit you.\u201d Through a training and mentoring program, the athlete will share with the team his experience and the values of effort, perseverance, and overcoming that have marked his career<\/b>, turning the event into a new awareness-raising platform<\/b> to raise awareness about untreated hearing loss and to demonstrate that this condition should not prevent anyone from achieving their goals.<\/p>\n
With this announcement, Ant\u00f3n will crown one of the most brilliant careers in Spanish athletics<\/b>\u00a0Spanish<\/strong>, in which he was also the European champion in the 10,000 meters in Helsinki in 1994 and, after retiring from professional competition, has become one of the main promoters of popular races in Spain.<\/p>\n \u201cCompeting again in Berlin in 2027 holds a double meaning for me. There I won in 1996 the first major marathon of my life and there too began my union and commitment with Aural. Returning to run those streets more than three decades later, surrounded by the support of the great family of Aural Hearing Centers and the Aural Team, is the best way to bid farewell to the distance that gave me everything. It is a pride to take on this final challenge hand in hand with those who have trusted in me for so long,\u201d commented Abel Ant\u00f3n<\/b>.<\/p>\n Por su parte, Juan Ignacio Mart\u00ednez, CEO de Aural<\/b>, manifest\u00f3 que para la compa\u00f1\u00eda es un \u201caut\u00e9ntico honor haber caminado junto a un deportista y una persona de la talla de Abel Ant\u00f3n durante m\u00e1s de dos d\u00e9cadas\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cAbel encarna a la perfecci\u00f3n los valores de esfuerzo, superaci\u00f3n y constancia que forman parte del ADN de Aural.<\/b>\u00a0Junto a \u00e9l hemos demostrado durante m\u00e1s de veinte a\u00f1os que el deporte es una extraordinaria herramienta para sensibilizar a la sociedad. El Equipo Aural naci\u00f3 precisamente para visibilizar la p\u00e9rdida auditiva no tratada, luchar contra los prejuicios que todav\u00eda existen y recordar que una p\u00e9rdida auditiva no debe marcar ni limitar los proyectos, los sue\u00f1os o las metas de una persona\u201d, se\u00f1al\u00f3.<\/p>\n \u201cEstaremos a su lado en cada paso hacia esa meta tan especial y acompa\u00f1\u00e1ndole en este \u00faltimo gran reto deportivo que simboliza todo lo que hemos construido juntos durante estos a\u00f1os. Adem\u00e1s, nos hace especial ilusi\u00f3n que Abel vaya a liderar la preparaci\u00f3n de un equipo que correr\u00e1 en Berl\u00edn bajo el lema \u2018Que la p\u00e9rdida auditiva no te limite\u2019,<\/b>\u00a0porque representa perfectamente nuestro prop\u00f3sito de derribar barreras y demostrar que escuchar bien ayuda a vivir plenamente y a perseguir cualquier objetivo<\/b>\u201d, apunt\u00f3.<\/p>\n The announcement by Abel Ant\u00f3n was made in the Valencian capital, where the Soriano-born athlete will participate in a program of activities organized by Aural that includes hiking, running routes and cycling through the Albufera Natural Park with the aim of making hearing loss more visible.<\/p>\n Abel Ant\u00f3n<\/b>\u00a0(Ojuel, Soria, 1962) counts among the best palmar\u00e8s in Spanish athletics<\/b>. A two-time world marathon champion in Athens 1997 and Seville 1999, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Sports, now the Princess of Asturias Award, in 1997 and received the Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sporting Merit a year earlier.<\/p>\n In addition to his major track victories, including wins at the Berlin Marathon in 1996, Kyongju (Korea) in 1997 and London in 1998, as well as the European gold in the 10,000 meters in Helsinki 1994, he has also been a promoter of awareness about hearing loss. In 2024 he participated alongside the Aural Team in the \u0160koda Titan Desert Morocco<\/b>, one of the world\u2019s most demanding mountain biking events, to contribute to this awareness effort.<\/p>\n The participation of Ant\u00f3n in the Berlin Marathon 2027 will crown more than twenty years of uninterrupted partnership between the athlete and Aural Hearing Centers<\/b> through the Aural Team. Created to give visibility to untreated hearing loss and to help break the stigma associated with this condition, the project has promoted for two decades a philosophy shared by Aural and Abel Ant\u00f3n: to show that barriers are meant to be overcome and that, in sport as in life, the limits are set by each person.<\/p>\n As part of this legacy, Aural will also promote the participation of a team of runners in the Berlin Marathon, coached by Abel Ant\u00f3n and united under the slogan \u201cThat untreated hearing loss should not limit you,\u201d with the aim of continuing to raise society\u2019s awareness of the consequences of not treating hearing loss and demonstrating that, with proper support, no person should give up on their goals.<\/b> This initiative will be accompanied by a program of activities and awareness actions that the company will announce in the coming months on the road to Berlin 2027.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n