Mon July 7 · First run
Fuente Ymbro
2:32Gored: 0
A clean opening. The ranch’s ninth straight year with no horn injuries, a 21st-century record no other ranch can match.
July 6 to 14, 2025. Every encierro, every ganadería, every video, and the stories the numbers leave out.
Overall it was a very clean year. When you look at the gorings, La Palmosilla on the 13th was the aberration. Cebada Gago and Álvaro Núñez had gorings too, but the rest of the runs were fairly clean, and we’re grateful for that.
The calendar drove the crowds. The 6th fell on a Sunday, so the chupinazo was packed, and with Bastille Day on the Monday the 14th, the French came in for the long weekend, so the 12th, 13th and 14th were heavy. And there was still real danger out there: Caminante, the Cebada Gago bull on the 8th, caused a lot of trouble along the route.
The danger never left the streets. On the second morning the bull Caminante broke from the Cebada Gago herd and ran half the route loose, and on the 13th the La Palmosilla run produced the most gorings in a single run since 2016, four runners caught from a ranch known as clean. And yet, by the count that matters most, the other runs were largely clean, with six gored across the eight mornings, the highest since 2022 but still a year most runners walked away from. Read the full archive year by year, or the 2024 recap, to see where 2025 sits.
Six runners gored across eight mornings, and yet, in the runners’ own reckoning, a clean year with one hard Sunday.
Each run with its ganadería, time, horn injuries, and the official video. The route runs about 849 meters from Santo Domingo to the ring; see the route map.
A clean opening. The ranch’s ninth straight year with no horn injuries, a 21st-century record no other ranch can match.
The slowest run since 2016. The bull Caminante fell behind and ran half the course alone, the most tense moments of the fiesta; one runner gored.
A fast, trampling debut by the only new ranch of the year; one runner gored after being knocked down on Estafeta.
Vertiginous and clean; all six bulls stayed together the whole route, on the morning of the Jimeno tribute.
Under 2:25 for the seventh straight year, the only ranch with that record; the bulls didn’t even throw a hook.
The Albaserrada bulls flew through, arriving well ahead of the steers; three straight years clean, the best in the ranch’s history.
The most gorings in one run since 2016. Four runners caught, the most serious a 22-year-old gored in the abdomen at the Mercaderes curve, from a ranch with a clean reputation.
The fastest run of 2025. Clean: Miura’s 42nd encierro and a third straight year closing the fiesta with no gorings.
Before the fourth run, on July 10, the 16th anniversary of the death of Daniel Jimeno Romero, his family laid flowers at the fence at post 66 on Telefónica, the exact spot where their 27-year-old son was caught in 2009, together with a San Fermín neckerchief bearing the names of every runner who has died in the encierro.
Daniel Jimeno remains the last person killed in the Pamplona run. Sixteen runners have died across more than a century, and despite its hard Sunday, 2025 added no name to that list.
The chupinazo opened the fiesta at noon on Sunday, July 6, fired from the Town Hall balcony by representatives of the Yala Nafarroa platform. The year’s poster, “Hogar pamplonica” by Sandra Nadal Vital, broke with tradition, the first San Fermín cartel built around hanging launfry, drawn from a real balcony in the Milagrosa neighborhood. Nine days later the fiesta closed with the candlelit Pobre de Mí at midnight on the 14th.
A sample of the international coverage of the 2025 running of the bulls.
The Pamplona photographers and the Navarra press shoot every morning. These links go straight to the 2025 galleries.
The planning and key dates, kept on the record.
The poster “Hogar pamplonica” by Sandra Nadal Vital won the public vote, the first San Fermín poster centered on hanging laundry.
Assembly of the vallado began, roughly 900 posts and 2,700 planks, built by the Aldaz Remiro carpenters.
Eight ranches were set, with Álvaro Núñez the only debutant and Miura running its 42nd encierro.
The chupinazo opened the fiesta; nine days later Pobre de Mí closed it at midnight.
Six, the most since 2022. Four came in one run, La Palmosilla on July 13, with one each from Cebada Gago and Alvaro Nunez.
Fuente Ymbro, Cebada Gago, Alvaro Nunez (debut), Victoriano del Rio, Jandilla, Jose Escolar, La Palmosilla, and Miura, in that order from July 7 to 14.
Miura on July 14, at 2 minutes 15 seconds. The slowest was Cebada Gago at 5:22, the slowest since 2016.
No. The last death in the Pamplona encierro was Daniel Jimeno in 2009.
Alvaro Nunez, the only new ranch of the fiesta, which ran on July 9.
2025 is the record. For the upcoming fiesta and how to prepare, see San Fermín 2026 or learn(the route with the runners who teach it.