Rodríguez Uribes: “Spain is one of the best places in the world for mountain sports”
Inauguration of the Mountain World Championships and trail running of Canfranc-Pyrenees
- The president of the Superior Sports Council spoke on Wednesday at the opening ceremony of the Mountain World Championships and trail running of Canfranc-Pyrenees.
- José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes has assured that this event, which will be held from September 25 to 28 in the Aragonese Pyrenees and which will bring together 1,700 athletes from more than 70 countries, “will leave a social and sporting legacy” and will be a “unique opportunity to project the image of our country as an organizer of major international events”.
Canfranc, September 24, 2025.- The president of the Superior Sports Council (CSD), José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, spoke on Wednesday at the opening ceremony of the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships of Canfranc-Pyrenees, an event that from September 25 to 28 will make Spain the epicenter of this discipline.
After the previous editions, played in Chiang Mai (Thailand) and Innsbruck Stubai (Austria), the Aragonese Pyrenees will this week bring together the world elite of trail running. In particular, some 1,700 athletes from 70 countries will compete in the absolute men’s and women’s uphill vertical, short trail, long trail and mountain classic races, as well as in two under-20 races of the classic modality.
“After months of quiet work and shared illusions, Canfranc has become the setting for one of the most exciting events in the international sports calendar”, said José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes during the opening ceremony of this event, to which the CSD contributes by a grant of 400,000 euros to the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation (RFEA).
“This World Cup is not just a competition. It is also a unique opportunity to project the image of our country as the venue for major international sporting events,” said the Secretary of State for Sport. In this case, through a sports specialty that Rodríguez Uribes considers “the maximum expression of effort and discipline, of the resilience of athletes against the hardness of the mountain” and that allows “a unique connection with nature, makes necessary companionship and turns sport into the common language of all participants”.
Rodríguez Uribes stressed that, with the celebration of these World Championships, “Spain consolidates itself as one of the great natural scenarios of mountain sport”, capable of combining “sporting excellence, sustainability and promotion of the rural environment”.
“In addition, these World Cups will leave a social and sporting legacy,” said the president of the CSD, who has positively valued the impact of the event in this area, which will serve as a “transformative tool to generate health and promote new economic opportunities through sustainable tourism.”
Rodríguez Uribes ended his speech wishing the greatest success to the athletes and technicians of the Spanish delegation. A team made up of 45 athletes -22 men and 23 women- from the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation, which will make its debut this Thursday from 10 a.m. on the vertical climb.
