US EditionAt Pamplona's San Fermín Festival, a Tiny Minority of Those Who Run with Bulls Are Women
PAMPLONA, NORTHERN SPAIN, JUL 13 – Despite thousands running annually, women remain a small minority due to fears and past abuses, with up to 4,000 runners participating each event, organizers said.
- The San Fermín Festival in Pamplona, Spain, features the running of the bulls, with up to 4,000 runners participating annually on a 846-meter course.
- Women were barred from bull runs by a decree repealed in 1974, allowing participation starting in 1975, though female runners remain rare.
- This week, women like Yomara Martínez and Sara Puñal took part in the dangerous runs, dressed in traditional garb amid large crowds watching from balconies and barricades.
- Paula López, a 32-year-old shop assistant, described the experience as challenging yet quite thrilling, while Martínez emphasized that the bull pays no attention to factors like gender, age, or body type.
- The 2016 rape case involving five men led to a 2019 Supreme Court 15-year imprisonment, prompting increased security after complaints of harassment affected the event's reputation.
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Women Slowly Join Bull Run
Dressed in the traditional bull runner's garb of a white shirt and red neck scarf, Yomara Martínez, 30, sprinted in the death-defying morning run, or "encierros," in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona. Yet despite being in a crowd of thousands, Martínez was among only a handful of female daredevils...
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