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Marta Dominguez, third at the Jean Bouin

The broker Moroccan Ilias Fifa, FC Barcelona and settled in Santa Coloma de Gramanet, and Ethiopian Frehiwat Goshu have won the 88 th Jean Bouin, held today in Park Montjuic, with the participation of 12,500 runners and where Marta Dominguez was third .

In the men jumped in surprise, as the young athlete Ilias Fifa 21 years has passed in a great sprint to the big favorite, Josphat Kiprono Menjo Kenyan, who won in 2007, 2009 and 2010 and holder of the world’s fourth-best all times when on the road 10 km (27:04) achieved in the April 28, 2010, in the Cursa dels Bombers de Barcelona.

In the first round of the three that comprised the course of 9,800 meters in the Montjuïc Park, marched in front a group of seven runners who were Jordi Comas Barca, Nacho and Pol Guillen Caceres, the Kenyan Kiprono Menjo and Jospath Ilias Fifa Moroccans, and Omar Driss Lakhouaja ​​Oughzif,
In the second round, the change of pace from Lakhouaja, Fifa, and Oughzif Menjo has completely broken the race and would be in the middle of the third and final round when Menjo Fifa and left behind the other two Moroccan runners to give a spectacular flip and go ahead.

At the entrance of the stretch, leaving behind a Menjo Fifa, who could not achieve his fourth victory in the test and was overcome by the Moroccan for only three seconds. The winner had already won the Jean Bouin Category Promise (2009 and 2010).

In the women, a young Ethiopian runner 21, Frehiwat Goshu, winner of the Madrid Half Marathon bronze medal in the 3,000 meters at the 2008 Junior World, has been leading the tour of 6635 meters keeping a close pulse with Denboba Aminba fellow, with a devastating pace of both.
Only Marta Dominguez, 36, has managed to keep them at bay in the first round, but in the second and last, African women have gone ahead and Goshu, a great change of pace down the stretch, has left behind Denboba to overcome in 43 seconds.

Marta came third with a time of 22:53, Denboba thirteen seconds, while Tarragona Natalia Rodriguez, who stayed behind in the first round, could not achieve its third consecutive victory in the race, being fourth with 23:56 , almost two minutes of the winner.


Natalia Rodriguez ficha por Nike Running

The Tarragona athlete Natalia Rodriguez has left his current club Gimnastic Tarragona, and has signed for Nike Running for incompatibilities with your current position as Councillor for Sports in Tarragona.

As explained by the very Rodriguez, the decision is a result of their political commitment, it is responsible for assigning the departure of sponsorship received 40,000 per year, to compete with the club grana.

“There was compatible continuing payment of public funds,” said Rodriguez, who has made this determination ethics.

“In assuming the office of councilman was planning to keep my career outside of politics, but does not support continuing payment of the agreement, which comes from public funds, with my position,” added Rodriguez, who has also been suggested that produced a series of cuts in this game of sponsorship that have particularly affected.

Rodriguez, recently nominated for best Spanish athlete in 2011, Nike had raced from 1997 to 2001 and, with this addition, joins a group of athletes of this club as Marta Dominguez and Chema Martinez, among others.