Saturday, June 3, La Coruna will host the last leg of the IAAF Challenge 2017 in category B.
The Challenge will end with a category A race (London World Championships) and a C category race (African Championships in Durban in South Africa) at the end of August 2017.
For the local organizers headed by the volcanic general secretary of the Federacion Gallega de Atletismo, Dolores Rojas, this will be the XXXI edition of which remains the memory of the 2015 edition when Liu Hong (CHN) with a race in the head from first meter established the new world record for 20km women with a time of 1:24.38.
This year's edition has ensured their presence at the following international level athletes:
20km men
- for Spain: Miguel Angel Lopez, Alvaro Martin and Diego Garcia
- for Brazil: Caio de Sena Bonfim and Moacir Zimmerman
- for Ecuador: Andres Chocho
- for China: Yu Wei and Wang Rui
- for Japan: Eiki Takahashi, Daisuke Matsunaga, Kai Kobayashi, Toshikazu Yamanishi and Takumi Saito
- for Kazakhstan: Georgiy Shaiko and Vitaly Terekhn
- For Mexico: Jose Luis Doctor Morales, Omar Pineda, Eder Sanchez, Brandon Bernardo Segura and Young Noel Ali Chama Almazan
- for Norway: Harvard Haukenes
- for Poland: David Tomala, Jakub Jelonek
- for Sweden: Perseus Karlstrom
- for Tunisia: Hassanine Sbei
- for Ukraine: Ivan Losev
20km women
- for Spain: Lidia Sanchez-Puebla, Maria Perez, Laura Garcia-Caro, Amanda Cano and Ainhoa Pinedo
- for Portugal: Ana Cabecinha and Ines Henriques
- for China: But Zhenxia and Wang Yingliu
- for Hungary: Viktoria Madarasz
- for Brazil: Erica Rocha de Sena and Eliana Pereira
- for Australia: Rachel Tallent
- for New Zealand: Alana Barber
- for Japan: Rena Goto and Chiaki Asada
- for Kazakhstan: Diana Aydosova and Dana Aydosova
- for Mexico: Andrea Martinez Rivera and Yanelli Caballero Garcia
- for Poland: Katarzyna Golba