Bilbao Triathlon will play the 26 of May with new measures of safety in the water

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Bilbao Triathlon is a consolidated appointment in the sport calendar of the city and is disputed in the Half and Olympic distances.

Last Monday 8 in January, at 12: 00 hours, registrations were opened for the eighth edition of the Bilbao Triathlon, proof that the 26 May 2018 Saturday in the heart of the Biscayan capital.

The proof will keep its main identity, such as swimming in the estuary, the bicycle ride to the Alto del Vivero and the circuit of running on foot through several of the most representative places of the 'new Bilbao', such as the Abandoibarra promenade, the Guggenheim Museum and the Town Hall, to finish in El Arenal.

Last year, 1.200 participated in triathletes from more than fifteen countries and gathered several thousand amateur people, who witnessed the event throughout the course.

The Measure Distance or Half consists of 1.800 meters of swimming, 90 kilometers in bicycle and other 21 more of race; while the Olympic Distance establishes for the same tests a distance of 1.500 meters, 45 and 10 kilometers.

NEW MEASURES FOR SECURITY IN WATER

As part of the safety and quality policy that the Bilbao Triathlon has been developing since its first edition, this yeare will carry out additional water quality controls, added to those already carried out by the Water Consortium. The results will be announced publicly and periodically both on the website www.bilbaotriathlon and on the event's social networks, and in an individualized, detailed and permanent manner for each triathlete.

Also, as complementary measures, a broker's bag will be included in the antibacterial gel for hands and face and the obligatory use of neoprene will be imposed in both distances. As usual in the test, at the exit of the swimming sector, the triathletes will have several points of fresh water to clear up before starting the cycling segment.

All this is added to the usual device of more than two hundred soldiers between Fire, Municipal Police, Ertzaintza, Red Cross Civil Protection and volunteers who watch over the safety of triathletes and spectators.

INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATION AND FEMALE POTENTIAL

In the absence of official confirmation of professional triathletes who will take part in the test, the objectives will continue to promote high level foreign participation, personalized in recent years in Olympic triathletes in the Rio de Janeiro Games, as Ryan Bailie o Bárbara Riveros, plus European champions like the Croatian Denis Sketako or the Germanic JEnny Schulz

In the edition of 2018 the main attractions of the Half test will be to check whether the current state champion, Gustavo Rodríguez, achieves his fifth triumph in the Arenal goal or if Judith Corachán it is done with the double after its success last year. The same happens with the Olympic test, in which in 2017 the Australian Charlotte McShane and the Venezuelan Luis Miguel Velasquez.

In addition, another objective remains to enhance the participation of women, whose presence in the event has been significantly increased since the introduction of Olympic distance in 2016.

More information: www.bilbaotriathlon