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Full name | Ragna Cathelijne Debats | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Dutch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Catalonia | 22 March 1979||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Snowshoe running Trail running Skyrunning | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ragna Debats (born 22 March 1979) is a Spanish-born Dutch female snowshoe runner, trail runner and sky runner. She was European champion in skyrunning (2017) and bronze medal at the world championships in the trail running (2016). In the 34th edition of the Marathon des Sables (2019) she became the first dutch person to win the race. [1] [2]
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Italy's Queen of Snowshoeing, Isabella Morlini, Ph.D, representing Team Baldas won the World Championship in 39:07. Catalonia's Ragna Debats a dozen seconds later seized silver