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In the homestretch of the 73km Transvulcania by UTMB race on Saturday afternoon on the island of Santa Cruz de La Palma, Abby Hall was greeted with a hero’s welcome. But her day wouldn’t be complete until she gave her own rousing finish line greeting to another runner in the field.
After running a strong final 5km climb from the beach at the seaside village of Tazacorte, Hall, a 32-year-old runner from Flagstaff, Arizona, was met with boisterous cheers and a festival atmosphere as a police escort led her to the finish line in the town center of Los Llanos de Aridane. It was both a celebration of Hall’s commanding victory—Sweden’s Petter Engdahl was the overall winner and received a similar treatment about 80 minutes earlier—as well as part of a raucous return of the iconic event after a three-year absence due to COVID-19 and a devastating volcanic eruption last fall.
The race, which is now part of the UTMB…
