Year after year, Grupo Bimbo organizes the Bimbo Global Race with a cause, in which the company commits to donating 20 slices of bread for each person registered in the competition. In 2022, more than 341,000 runners participated, for which Grupo Bimbo will donate 6.8 million slices of bread to people who live in vulnerable communities.
Through this action, Grupo Bimbo joins the fight towards “Zero Hunger”, one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations Organization (UN), and with this, in food banks it helps those who they need it most in the communities where the company has a presence.
People who attended in person, as well as others who participated virtually, registered for this race. In its face-to-face format, the event was held in 15 cities in 10 countries, while in the virtual format, competitors in more than 100 nations could register.
The countries where more people registered virtually or in person are: China with 162,873, Mexico with 28,734, Peru with 22,465, India with more than 20,000, and Spain with more than 18,000. In addition, in its digital format there were runners from countries such as Greenland, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.
In Mexico, the host cities were: Monterrey, Puebla, Guadalajara and Mexico City. These are the absolute winners in the 10 kilometer category, in our country:
• Women’s branch: Yuliana Navarro Rosales, ran in Guadalajara, with a time of 37:30 minutes.
• Men’s branch: Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Morales, ran in Mexico City, with a time of 32:03 minutes.
The winners will be awarded a trip, to which they can bring a companion, to participate in next year’s Bimbo Global Race, which will take place in Los Angeles, California.
In this way, the race has been adapted to the different modalities to allow more people of all ages to join the initiative, regardless of the country in which they are. Thus, it is the sports movement with the greatest impact and importance of the baking company that has a presence in 33 countries in America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Through this race, for six years, it has donated more than 23.7 million slices of bread to vulnerable communities through food banks.
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