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Transvulcania Gender Split

11 May 2023

Transvulcania La Palma on the Spanish Canary Island off the coast of Morocco, Africa happened last week, May 4-6, 2023. Let’s take a look at the gender splits of their various race offerings. And yes, I am late again and only have finisher numbers.

  • Ultra (72km) Starters: 699, DNF: 87, Finishers: 612 – 74 women 12%.
  • Volcanes (46km): Starters: 492, DNF: 39, Finishers: 453 – 85 women 18.8%.
  • El Roque (28km):Starters: 451, DNF: 34, Finishers: 417 – 131 women 31%.
  • Vertical Challenge (1.5km): Starters: 122, DNF: 0, Finishers: 122 – 26 women 21%.

I don’t have the numbers for their youth or kids races, but of the 4 races above there were a total of 1604 finishers and 412 were women, that’s 25.7%.

I don’t have anything smart to say anymore, but I wonder if there any sports were these percentages are reversed? And to the people who say “These numbers are improving and not that bad.” I would ask when they were the last time in a group setting were they were the minority and how they felt about it.

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