MEET OUR TEAM
Race Director - Urtzi Iglesias Mota
Urtzi Iglesias has over 15 years involved in the world of adventure racing, first as a racer and in recent years also as organizer. As Columbia Vidaraid team captain has achieved numerous victories in the World Series tests (Ecomotion, Costa Rica AR, Untamed New England, Gold Rush Mother Lode...) and he came 3th in the last World Cup. Urtzi also a lover of orienteering racing, on foot and mtb, discipline in which has won three championships in Spain in recent years.
He started as organizer 8 years ago with the organization of the first adventure race held in the Basque Country and the subsequent creation of the Columbia Raid Series.
Now comes the opportunity to face a new challenge, designing the course for a world-class race, and its aim is clear: "I want to design a dynamic race, with fast stages followed with others slower and challenging. The Navigation is one of the most important points to be considered by the teams. My commitment is to work to provide quality maps and updated as much as possible. "
General Manager - Gustavo Borgognon
Gustavo Borgognon started running short adventure racing in Paraguay in 2001, in 2008 he participated for the first time in a 4 day expeditizon race and in the year 2011 he participated for the first time in a ARWS race, from that day, he wanted to organize an expedition race in Paraguay: "When I decided to organize a 4 or 5 days race in Paraguay, I realized that I must first gain experience as a runner, to know how they think, and the details that make the success or failure of a race".
So, from February 2013 to August 2014 he participated in 6 expedition races, all of them from ARWS, including the last world championship in Costa Rica, in these races he met Urtzi Iglesias, whom he ran together Itera (Wales 08/2014), reaching the forth position, being the first foreign team to reach the goal, after this experience Urtzi and Gustavo decided to join forces andexperience to organize the first 5 days expedition
race in Paraguay.
"Paraguay is a beautiful country, still very young,but eager to progress, full of extremely helpful people and lots of love for the sport, which commits me to accomplish that the race will be remembered for its beautiful landscapes, but above all for the excellent service you will receive as a runner, which will become the trademark of Expedition Guarani "