Gustavo Rodríguez and Judith Corachán get their third victory in 3 weeks

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The Galician Gustavo Rodríguez and the Catalan Judith Corachán have won the second edition of the La Rioja Triathlon, the fourth round of the Spanish Cup of Triathlon MD and LD

This afternoon the second edition of the Triathlon La Rioja with the victory of Gustavo Rodríguez y Judith Corachán, who chain their peculiar "tripe-double" since both have won 3 big triathlons in the past 21 days

. Last week both won the victory in the Triathlon of Zarautz and the weekend of the 26 and 27 of May, Gustavo won the Cto de España de MD de Guadalajara and Judith the Challenge Salou.

The test began at 14:00 p.m. with the female start where the trio formed by Sara Bonilla, Maria Pujol and Judith Corachán arrived outstanding at T1. At that time you could see a beautiful image with three Spanish champions (of various distances and modalities: Sprint, Duathlon, Medium Distance and Long Distance) together. After the 90km of cycling Judith came to T2 outstanding with a big difference over Maria Pujol. The 21 km of running was going to be the consolidation of Judith, who took the victory with a time of 4:34:20. in second position at almost 20 ′ he reached María Pujol and the third place was for Sara Bonilla

The men took the exit 10 'after the women and Javier Cardona was the first to complete the 1900m swimming along the Ebro river. After 1' a stretched group arrived where Gustavo Rodriguez and Cristóbal Dios were, the two main favorites . The 90km of cycling were going to be for Gustavo, who soon became the solo leader and was increasing the advantage until he reached T2 in first position with a 7 ′ advantage over Cristóbal. Third in T2 was Alex Aguirretxe.

Finally, the victory was for Gustavo Rodríguez with a time of 4:08:33, who in the final 21km of the race on foot was dedicated to managing the advantage. Second with a spectacular comeback on foot has been Alejandro Santamaría, one of the mythical of the Spanish triathlon to 10 'of Gustavo and third closing the podium Cristobal Dios to 12 '.

Photos: Facebook Triathlon Rioja