Emilio Martín silver in the Duathlon World Championship

The South African Richard Murray has achieved victory

After the great third place of Mavi García in the women's event, it was the turn of the men's competition, where Emilio Martín, twice Duathlon World Champion, defended the title won last year.

At 19:00 the test started where the French Benoit Nicolas, Yohan Le Berre, the British Philip Wylie or Richard Murray who is preparing for the Rio Olympics started as favorites.

The first 10 km of the race were very fast, where a leading group of 11 units was formed with Emilio Martín, Richard Murray, Beonit Nicolas among others. This group reached T1 50 seconds ahead of their pursuers.

Already in the cycling sector of 40 km, the leading group could see a battle between its components where in the end they left alone Van Egdom, Richard Murray, Emilio Martin, Yohan Le Berre and Setnh Totten who arrived with about 1 minute of advantage over the rest of the group and near 3 on the platoon pursuer to the T2.

Finally in the race on foot, the South African Richard Murray showed his quality getting the victory with a time of 1: 42: 18 followed by Emilio Martín (1:42:35) in second position and for Jorik Van Egdom (1: 42: 41) occupying the third final place.

Provisional classification

As for the rest of the Spanish participation Sergio Lorenzo ended in a great 11ª plaza, Luis Miguel Martín Berlanas in 16ª, Cristobal García 17ª e Iván Caceres in 23ª position

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