Luis Barbancho and Nuria García win Trail de Buñol 2026

Luis Barbancho Palmer and Nuria García Rodríguez won the 21-kilometre race at the Trail de Buñol 2026, held on Sunday 1 November with the start and finish in Parque de San Luis. Barbancho crossed the finish line alongside Miguel Ibáñez Tejedor, although the official timing separated them by one second.

Pau Verd Canet and Carmen Llobell Martínez won the 12-kilometre Sprint Trail. The 11th edition, organised by C.A. Correores Buñol, also included a non-competitive walk and took place in good weather conditions.

A joint finish in the Trail

Barbancho, of C.A. Correores Buñol, and Ibáñez, of Cárnicas Serrano, completed the entire course together and decided to cross the finish line at the same time. The results placed Barbancho first in 2:07:03, ahead of Ibáñez, who recorded 2:07:04.

Rafael Martorell Boix, of C.A. Senglars Favara, took third place in 2:10:45. The race, with approximately 1,100 metres of elevation gain, had 178 finishers: 32 women and 146 men.

Nuria García claims a double victory

In the women’s classification, Nuria García Rodríguez won in 2:42:59. Rocío Villa Gómez was second in 2:49:15 and Paulina Mazurek completed the podium in 2:52:46.

García also won alongside Christian Campos in the mixed pairs classification, which the Trail included for the second consecutive year. Nieves Carrascosa and Manolo Marzo, both of C.A. Correores Buñol, were second; Patri Juan and José Luis Agut finished third.

The winner also received the prize for the Trail’s Strava segment, while Marcos García, of the organising club, took the men’s prize. Nieves Carrascosa was the women’s masters champion.

Verd and Llobell win the Sprint

Pau Verd Canet, of Club Atletisme Andratx, won the Sprint in 1:00:30. He was followed by José Carrascosa Fuertes, in 1:01:48, and Víctor Martínez, in 1:04:16, both of C.A. Correores Buñol.

Carmen Llobell Martínez topped the women’s classification in 1:23:28, ahead of Lorena Guillén Sayas, second in 1:26:05, and Pilar García Piqueras, third in 1:28:37. Llobell and Carrascosa won the Sprint’s Strava segments.

The shorter race, with around 500 metres of elevation change, had 343 finishers: 92 women and 251 men.

Volunteers and trophies for local categories

Volunteers staffed the aid stations, marked the routes and helped coordinate the checkpoints. The overall and category winners received handcrafted and personalised trophies; those for the local categories were made by Centro Ocupacional Vía Libre.