The current European cross country champion will attack the 5 km continental record at the Cursa dels Nassos

The current European cross country champion will attack the 5 km continental record at the Cursa dels Nassos
The Norwegian Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal will be on December 31 in the great race with which the Barcelona runners will bid farewell to 2022.
Another talent that comes from the north. Another golden notch for a test that is running for one of the best 5K ever held in Europe. The Norwegian trident of the Ingebrigtsen brothers, with the Olympic champion Jakob, is now joined by Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal, from the Adidas team, continental cross-country champion.
Such is the confidence of the queen of mud (since 2015 she has been on the podium in all editions of the European Cross Country: gold, silver and four bronzes) in the very flat Catalan track that she does not hide her intentions in a discipline, the route, which He also solves with solvency (he has personal records of 15:00 in 5 km and 30:32 in 10 km): attacking the Old Continent record of 14'44” of Sifan Hassan, double Olympic and world champion.
Her preparation is not on the wrong track, since more than two months before the Cursa dels Nassos, on October 22, she triumphed in a 10K run in her country after 31:00 minutes of effort.
In addition to the aforementioned achievements, Grøvdal took fifth place in the 5000 meters at the Tokyo Games, a distance in which she holds a best time of 14:31.07. She is one of the most versatile runners in the history of European athletics, capable of performing competently between the 1,500 and the half marathon, going through the 3,000 meters obstacles.
Like so many other great names in athletics, she has been seduced by Barcelona and its frenetic route and a special night, for a career that is clearly rising to the Olympus of the great sports organizations.
Will he give Barcelona a new record? Maybe yes, maybe not; but just seeing it advance through the streets of the city will warm the hearts of great lovers of the most ancient and democratic of sports.