Gilberto Jesus Mendoza, president of the World Boxing Association (WBA), will run the New York City Marathon, one of the most important in the world, this Sunday, November 6.

He will run the 42 km and 195 meters in honor of his father Gilberto Mendoza, President Emeritus of the WBA, who died last March 11.

The maximum hierarch of the World Boxing Association already has experience in Ironman and half marathons. This year, he ran the 21 kilometers of the Medellin marathon in Colombia, and wants to run his first 42 km in New York.