Today 14 years ago Ivan Raña won the Triathlon World Championship.
Today 9 November is a historic date for the Spanish triathlon, at 2002 in the city of Cancun, a young Galician 23 years, Ivan Raña, achieved the first world title for Spain.
Iván is also the youngest Spanish world champion, then followed by the 5 titles of Javier Gómez Noya and that of Mario Mola.
Raña came as number one favorite, after chaining 4 consecutive victories in ITU tests: The European Championship in Gyor in July, the European Cup in Madrid in September, the Madeira World Cup and the Palermo European Cup both in October .
The competition was resolved in the race on foot where Ivan was the fastest, his total time in goal was 1: 50: 40, second was the Australian Peter Robertson with 1: 51: 06 and third the British Andrew Johns with 1: 51: 17.
In addition to Raña, there were three more Spaniards competing in Cancun: Eneko Llanos, Hektor Llanos and José Merchán.
Fourteen years later Ivan Raña He is one of the greatest in Spanish triathlon, he has never stopped competing with the best in his sport, as evidenced by his great 9th position a few weeks ago in the World Cup. Hawaii Ironman.
Video summary of the race:
Photo: ITU
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