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The Fitness Race Lanzarote 2026: 650 in Puerto del Carmen
The hybrid race left the sports ground for a square on the promenade, with record turnout. The official classification, published after this report, hands out 519 individual places and fourteen teams.
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The 5th The Fitness Race Lanzarote drew more than 650 participants on Saturday 11 April 2026 to the Plaza de las Naciones in Puerto del Carmen. It is the biggest turnout in its history and the first time the hybrid race has been staged in the tourist centre of Tías. The 650 figure is the one given by Tías town council and counts entries; the official classification hands out 519 individual places and fourteen teams.
(Updated on 28 September 2026. This report was published on 6 September saying the organisers had not released any classifications. That was true then and stopped being true: there are ten official classifications on Sportmaniacs, read on 28 September, and here are the ten podiums. They carry no names, and further down we explain why.)
The format was 6 kilometres split into eight 700-metre laps, with a strength station between each one. There were individual, pairs and mixed team categories. It is run by Club Deportivo The Fitness Hybrid together with the Paleotraining Tías, The Jungle Box and Hybrid Box Siroco gyms, with the support of Tías town council.
Competitors came from Lanzarote, the rest of the Canaries, mainland Spain and abroad. The figure marks the trajectory of a race that has kept changing venue: it started in Costa Teguise, moved to Tías in 2024, was held in February 2025 at the Agapito Viera municipal ground in Arrecife with around 500 participants, and returned in August 2025 to the Tías municipal ground. The fifth edition took it out of a sports ground and into a public square.
The mayor of Tías, José Juan Cruz, said the race “once again shows our municipality’s commitment to sport and to promoting healthy habits”. The sports councillor, Ismael Cruz, said “this event has become a much-anticipated date that combines physical demand, fun and community”.
The ten podiums, and why they carry no names
The classifications are published on Sportmaniacs: ten of them, one per category, all complete. Not one entrant with a place was left without a time. These are the winning times, read on 28 September 2026:
| Category | Classified | Winning time |
|---|---|---|
| PRO men’s doubles | 24 | 43:12 |
| PRO women’s doubles | 20 | 51:03 |
| PRO individual men | 13 | 47:22 |
| Individual men | 38 | 48:06 |
| Individual women | 20 | 59:16 |
| Men’s pairs | 140 | 43:54 |
| Women’s pairs | 138 | 50:26 |
| Mixed pairs | 126 | 45:41 |
| Mixed relay teams | 5 teams | 51:09 |
| Battle teams | 9 teams | 43:49 |
The two teams that won: Comando Guanche in the mixed relay and 928 Hybrid Club in the battle.
And now the part that has to be explained, because it is a decision and not an oversight: we are not publishing the podium names here.
This race’s classification is ordered by level and by sex, and publishes no ages and no age categories. There is no children’s, cadet or junior category: everyone runs together. Cross-checking the podium names against the ones we had already identified at other races on the island, two of them are under age, and one of them won their category. If there are more, this classification gives no way of knowing.
You do not name a minor in a race report. Since we cannot tell one from another with what the timing publishes, we name no one. The times and the places are above. The official classification is published by the organisers on their own platform, and the link is on the race’s event page.
It is fixed simply by the organisers publishing the age or the age category, as the other races on the calendar do. If they do, we will come back and put the podiums up with full names.
One more detail pointing the same way: the men’s pairs event had a team entered under a junior category name.
How to read these tables, if you are going to look at them
Worth knowing before you draw conclusions: in the pairs events the platform numbers each athlete separately, not each pair. Places 1 and 2 are almost always the two members of the same team, on the same time or a second apart. Anyone reading place 2 as “the runner-up” is presenting the winner’s own partner as their rival.
There is also a teams tab inside each pairs event that is not the pairs podium: it only gathers those who entered a team name, and it gives different times.
The venue, and what it changes
A 700-metre lap in a square has a practical consequence: your supporter sees everything from one spot and you pass your own bag eight times. The Plaza de las Naciones also put the race on the Puerto del Carmen promenade, with the shops and restaurants around it, something the council highlighted afterwards.
No date has been announced for the sixth edition, checked on 28 September 2026, and the history warns it can fall at any time of year: there have been editions in February, in April and in August. Everything coming up is in the Lanzarote sports events calendar.