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The 2025 Running of the Bulls is held annually in Pamplona, Spain and it went off last weekend/today with 1 man being gored by a bull and 7 others being bruised by the massive bovines. There were others that tempted fate and won, however.
The annual Running of the Bulls is held during Pamplona’s 9-day festival of Sanfermines which is held in honor of Saint Fermin who was the first bishop of Pamplona back in the 3rd century. He was a martyr and remains celebrated for his missionary work and martyrdom.
The Running of the Bulls dates back centuries to 1591 when the first record of the event appears, according to RunningoftheBulls.com. For those keeping score at home, that is 434 years of gentlemen dressed up in white pants, a white shirt, and a red neckerchief trying to evade angry bulls who run in groups of 6 over a 957-yard course across four streets in the old part of Pamplona.
2025 Running of the Bulls
This year, the Pamplona Running of the Bulls went off without any fatalities. There have been 15 fatalities during the running since 1924 with the most recent death occurring in 2009.
Not everyone made it through this year unscathed though. According to Reuters, one man was gored while 7 others were bruised.
A spokesmen for the City of Pamplona identified the gored individual as being “older than 25” and stipulated that he was “injured by a bull horn under his right armpit.” This seems as good of a time as any to remind that there is no good place on the body to get gored by a bull.
Pushing the limits
Some individuals keen on seeing how far they could tempt fate set up just outside a closed door. When the bull came roaring through it had two options: jump or gore and plow through the crowd.
The hope, of course, was the bull would leap over them. If it landed on top of them they would almost certainly have suffered major injuries.
This video from TikTok user Zac Chisholm has been viewed over 2.8 million times in the past 48 hours. Millions are astonished that anyone would put themselves in harm’s way like this:
What people are saying about Pamplona 2025
The top comment on the video comes from u/RatPoo46 who wrote “50/50 chance bro wouldn’t of posted this.” The implication there is, of course, if the bull took him out the clip never would have seen the light of day.
Right behind that comment is user pce who chimed in with something we were all thinking. They wrote “that’s for sure an angle of a bull I thought I’d never see.”
A second angle of that video above emerged from TikTok user @spunky_shovel. This vantage point shows just how close those guys on the ground were to being trampled:
Hitting the mainstream
While there are countless festivals around the world with ancient traditions we might find fascinating the annual Pamplona Running of the Bulls remains world famous due to Ernest Hemingway.
It was Hemingway’s books, The Sun Also Rises and Death in the Afternoon, that are often credited with making the running world famous and taking to the so-called ‘mainstream.’
He first visited Pamplona during the San Fermin Festival back in 1923 and was hooked from day 1, returning over multiple years to partake in the annual festival himself.
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