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Every year between 200 and 300 people are injured during the run although most injuries are contusions due to falls and are not serious. Since 1910, 15 people have been killed in Pamplona.
Deaths since 1910 in the bull run of Pamplona
Year Name Age Origin Location Cause of death
1924 Esteban Domeño 22 Navarre, Spain Telefónica
1927 Santiago Zufía 34 Navarre, Spain Bullring
1935 Gonzalo Bustinduy 29 Mexico Bullring
1947 Casimiro Heredia 37 Navarre, Spain Estafeta
1947 Julián Zabalza 23 Navarre, Spain Bullring
1961 Vicente Urrizola 32 Navarre, Spain Santo Domingo
1969 Hilario Pardo 45 Navarre, Spain Santo Domingo
1974 Juan Ignacio Eraso 18 Navarre, Spain Telefónica
1975 Gregorio Gorriz 41 Navarre, Spain Bullring
1977 José Joaquín Esparza 17 Navarre, Spain Bullring Suffocated in a pile-up at the entrance to the Bullring.
1980 José Antonio Sánchez 26 Navarre, Spain Town Hall Square
1980 Vicente Risco 29 Badajoz, Spain Bullring
1995 Matthew Peter Tassio 22 Illinois, USA Town Hall Square Goring
2003 Fermín Etxeberria 63 Navarre, Spain Mercaderes Hit by the horn of a bull
2009 Daniel Jimeno Romero 27 Alcalá de Henares, Spain Telefónica Goring
Deaths since 1910 in the bull run of Pamplona
Year Name Age Origin Location Cause of death
1924 Esteban Domeño 22 Navarre, Spain Telefónica
1927 Santiago Zufía 34 Navarre, Spain Bullring
1935 Gonzalo Bustinduy 29 Mexico Bullring
1947 Casimiro Heredia 37 Navarre, Spain Estafeta
1947 Julián Zabalza 23 Navarre, Spain Bullring
1961 Vicente Urrizola 32 Navarre, Spain Santo Domingo
1969 Hilario Pardo 45 Navarre, Spain Santo Domingo
1974 Juan Ignacio Eraso 18 Navarre, Spain Telefónica
1975 Gregorio Gorriz 41 Navarre, Spain Bullring
1977 José Joaquín Esparza 17 Navarre, Spain Bullring Suffocated in a pile-up at the entrance to the Bullring.
1980 José Antonio Sánchez 26 Navarre, Spain Town Hall Square
1980 Vicente Risco 29 Badajoz, Spain Bullring
1995 Matthew Peter Tassio 22 Illinois, USA Town Hall Square Goring
2003 Fermín Etxeberria 63 Navarre, Spain Mercaderes Hit by the horn of a bull
2009 Daniel Jimeno Romero 27 Alcalá de Henares, Spain Telefónica Goring
Before the running of the bulls, a set of wooden or iron barricades is erected to direct the bulls along the route and to block off sidestreets. There may be a double row of barricades along the route to allow runners to quickly exit in case of danger. The gaps in the barricades are wide enough for a person to slip through, but narrow enough to block a bull.
A group of large oxen are released at the end of the run to pick up any stragglers then a run is considered good if the bulls flow swiftly.Whenever a bull gets separated from the herd, it can be very dangerous because it becomes disoriented and often attacks anything, or anyone who attracts its attention
The event begins with runners singing three times "A San Fermín pedimos, por ser nuestro patrón, nos guíe en el encierro dándonos su bendición" ("We ask Saint Fermín, as our Patron, to guide us through the encierro and give us his blessing"), a prayer to a statue of Saint Fermin, patron of the festival and the city, to ask his protection. The singing finishes shouting “Viva San Fermín!, Gora San Fermín!” (Long live San Fermin, in Spanish and Basque). Runners dress in the traditional clothing of the festival which consists of white shirt and trousers with a red waistband and neckerchief. In one hand, they hold the day's newspaper rolled to draw the bulls' attention from them if necessary. A first rocket is set off to alert the runners that the corral gate is open. A second rocket signals that all six bulls and six steers have been released. The third and forth rockets are signals of all the herd entering the bullring and its corral respectively, marking the end of the event. The average duration between the first rocket and the end of the encierro is around four minutes.
The herd is composed by the six bulls to be fought in the afternoon and six steers, which run with the bulls and three more leave the corral two minutes later. The function of the oxen is to guide the herd and all the days of the festival are the same. The average speed of the herd is 24 km/h (15 mph).
The length of the run is around 840 meters and goes through 4 streets of the old part of the village (Santo Domingo, Town Hall Square, Mercaderes and Estafeta) and a section called "Telefónica" before entering into the bullring. The fastest part of the route is up Santo Domingo and across the Town Hall Square, but the bulls often became separated at the entrance to Estafeta Street as they slow down. One or more would slip going into the turn at Estafeta, but with the use of the new anti-slip surfacing, most of the bulls negotiate the turn onto Estafeta and are often ahead of the steers. This has resulted in a quicker, but not safer run as the bulls are usually out ahead of the steers as they reach the lane
A group of large oxen are released at the end of the run to pick up any stragglers then a run is considered good if the bulls flow swiftly.Whenever a bull gets separated from the herd, it can be very dangerous because it becomes disoriented and often attacks anything, or anyone who attracts its attention
The event begins with runners singing three times "A San Fermín pedimos, por ser nuestro patrón, nos guíe en el encierro dándonos su bendición" ("We ask Saint Fermín, as our Patron, to guide us through the encierro and give us his blessing"), a prayer to a statue of Saint Fermin, patron of the festival and the city, to ask his protection. The singing finishes shouting “Viva San Fermín!, Gora San Fermín!” (Long live San Fermin, in Spanish and Basque). Runners dress in the traditional clothing of the festival which consists of white shirt and trousers with a red waistband and neckerchief. In one hand, they hold the day's newspaper rolled to draw the bulls' attention from them if necessary. A first rocket is set off to alert the runners that the corral gate is open. A second rocket signals that all six bulls and six steers have been released. The third and forth rockets are signals of all the herd entering the bullring and its corral respectively, marking the end of the event. The average duration between the first rocket and the end of the encierro is around four minutes.
The herd is composed by the six bulls to be fought in the afternoon and six steers, which run with the bulls and three more leave the corral two minutes later. The function of the oxen is to guide the herd and all the days of the festival are the same. The average speed of the herd is 24 km/h (15 mph).
The length of the run is around 840 meters and goes through 4 streets of the old part of the village (Santo Domingo, Town Hall Square, Mercaderes and Estafeta) and a section called "Telefónica" before entering into the bullring. The fastest part of the route is up Santo Domingo and across the Town Hall Square, but the bulls often became separated at the entrance to Estafeta Street as they slow down. One or more would slip going into the turn at Estafeta, but with the use of the new anti-slip surfacing, most of the bulls negotiate the turn onto Estafeta and are often ahead of the steers. This has resulted in a quicker, but not safer run as the bulls are usually out ahead of the steers as they reach the lane
The Running of the Bulls (in Spanish encierro, from the verb encerrar, to lock/shut up, to pen) is a practice that involves running in front of bulls that have been let loose on a course of a sectioned-off subset of a town's streets. The most famous running of the bulls is that of the nine-day festival of San Fermín in Pamplona,although they are held in towns and villages across Spain and in some cities in Mexico and southern France, during the summer. Unlike bullfights, which are performed by professionals, anyone may participate in an encierro.
The purpose of this event is the transport of the bulls from the off-site corrals where they had spent the night, to the bullring where they would be killed in the evening. Youngsters would jump among them to show off their bravado.
Injuries are common to the participants who may be gored or trampled, and to the bulls, whose hooves grip poorly on the paved or cobbled street surfaces.
When is this going to end? Everybody is talking about the death of another partisepent What about the bulls? All of them die every year.
This page is what it is all about how and why.
This page is what it is all about how and why.
Bull Running in Spain
