Fernando Alarza and Vicente Hernández aspire to everything in the European Championship of Kitzbühel

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Fernando Alarza is the big favorite after having obtained the third position in the WTS of Leeds, with the best career sector and having climbed to the first place in the World Ranking

 Once again one of the oldest appointments on the international calendar arrives, the Triathlon European Championship that celebrates its XXXIII edition. Javier Gómez Noya is current champion with the title achieved last year in Lisbon where he got his fourth continental winding equaling the Dutchman Robert Barel.

Next weekend in the Austrian city of Kitzbüehel The European Triathlon Championship is held. This city has already hosted it in the 2014 where Alistair Bornwlee got his third continental title and Vicente Hernández the bronze medal and Fernando Alarza the fourth place.

The test consists of 1.500m of swimming (the triathletes will give 2 turns to small lake of Schwarsee, later they will pedal during 40k of cycling (8 turns to a circuit of 5km) to finish with the 10km of race on foot (4 turns to a circuit of 2,5km)

In the male category Fernando Alarza is the main favorite, as he demonstrated a week ago in the WTS of Leeds where he was third, with the best partial race on foot what served him to be the current leader of the WTS. It also comes at a good time Vicente Hernández that was 9ª in Leeds and the top10 of the world ranking was placed. In addition to these two, the Spanish representation will be composed of Antonio Serrat y Uxío Abuín. In addition to the Spanish, Russians are also favorites with medals Dmitry e Igor Polyanskiand and the Portuguese Joao Pereida y Joao Silva.

Male start list

While in the female category the Spanish representation will be in charge of Anna Godoy y Sara Perez, who hopefully has been able to recover from the gastroenteritis that prevented him from running in the WTS of Leeds. The British India Lee y Non Standford are the favorites along with the Austrians Sara Vilic y Lisa Pertener

Female start list

Cycling sector in kitzbüehel

Also the Junior European Championship with the presence of Javier Lluch current European champion in the category, Alberto González y Javier Romowhile in women Lucia Salafranca e Iria Rodríguez will be the Spanish representatives.

For its part the "Paratriarmada"Will be represented by Héctor Catalá, Jose Luis García, Susana Rodríguez, Mabel Gallardo, Lionel Morales, Dani Molina, Kini Carrasco, Alejando Sanchez, Jairo Ruiz, José Vicente Arzo and Eva Moral, each of them and them in their respective categories.

The competition schedule will be Friday 16 at the 14: 00 the junior women's competition and the 16: 00 the female elite. Men will compete on Saturday, juniors at 13: 30 and elite at 16: 00. Finally on Sunday will be the relays, the 14: 00 the juniors and the 16: 30 the elite.

Photos: ITU / Jano. M Schmidh

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