The Sahara Marathon 2021, scheduled as every year for the last week of February, will not be held in the usual way due to the global COVID19 pandemic. The solidarity sport event that has brought together thousands of runners for more than twenty years in the Saharawi camps of Tindouf (Algeria) will not be able …
Lehsen Sidahmed repite triunfo en el Sahara Marathon, la prueba solidaria en los campamentos de refugiados de Tindouf EL ATLETISMO SAHARAUI SE REIVINDICA -Vigésima edición de la carrera de apoyo al pueblo saharaui. -Tindouf (Argelia).- Veinte años han pasado desde que un grupo de voluntarios de varios países puso en marcha una de las iniciativas …
Los suecos Fahlen y Edqvist se llevan la victoria en la decimonovena edición de la carrera solidaria EL SAHARA MARATHON CORRE CONTRA EL OLVIDO -Dos españoles en el podio, Leonor Maciá, segunda y Jon Salvador, tercero. -Meritxell Bonet logra el triunfo en el medio maratón. Campamentos Saharauis de Tindouf (Argelia).- La meta de la decimonovena …
For the 19th edition of SaharaMarathon we just launched two crowdfunding campaigns. One is aimed at giving direct help to the most needy families of the Saharawi camps, the other is sport related and is aimed at expanding the already running projects of Boxe gyms for the saharawi kids. Direct help to needy families https://www.migranodearena.org/reto/19730/el-sahara-marathon-con-las-familias-saharauis …
And once again, the adventure begins… February 23rd to March 2nd, registrations are open
The eighteenth edition of the solidarity race finally saw the triumph of a refugee athlete SAHARA MARATHON FOR LOCAL HEROES -Lehsen Sidahmed and Inma Zanoguera, two moving stories of the Saharawi people. -The Mallorcan basketball player triumphs in the desert, searching for her origins. Smara (Saharawi Camps of Tindouf-Algeria) .- The Sahara Marathon is the …
18 years of SaharaMarathon, and 42 years of exile for the Saharawi people. The 2018 edition of SaharaMarathon revolves around a number we all know: 42. The kilometers you need to run to complete a marathon, but also the number of years that the Saharawi spent away from their home, in this inhospitable desert. So …
A brief history of the SaharaMarathon Project The first edition of the Sahara Marathon was born as a simple marathon, to give visibility to the Saharawi cause and express solidarity with this people. It was attended by less than a hundred people, amateur runners, who reached the camps in small groups organized by associations of …
The Algerian desert floods of solidarity with the epic race for the Saharawi people. CALCATERRA, A WORLD CHAMPION IN THE DESERT – The italian won over Vicente Grande Duque and Jon Salvador, in a thrilling race that was decided in the last kilometers – The basque María Elena Frechilla gets a well-deserved triumph in the …
Just two weeks to start our amazing and unforgetable journey. It’s a good time to send you some more information and some basic tips: PROGRAM: In the coming days we will send you the families distribution, the list of projects and the official program of the trip, but we anticipate that this year is scheduled …