Half a thousand registered in the Doñana Challenge VII
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The Doñana challenge is a special test within the national calendar, since the order of the segments is different from the rest of the triathlons since the race starts with 100 km of cycling, it continues with 1 km of swimming and ends with 15 km of running on the beach of Doñana
Today the VIII edition of the Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz) has been presented Doñana Challenge, which is disputed next Saturday 30 with 483 participants (319 individual and the rest distributed in 55 teams).
During the neutralized exit, the cyclist squad It will roll along several kilometers until the official start of the race in which 100 kilometers will be completed, passing through Trebujena, Jerez de la Frontera, El Puerto de Santa Maria, Rota, Chipiona and Sanlúcar de Barrameda again.
Once the bicycle section is finished, the participants must cross the mouth and swim 1 kilometer -2,8 km. for the teams- and swim across the Guadalquivir River to Punta de Malandar. The complexity of this test lies in the tides, especially in the case of relays.
La Foot race runs through the virgin beach of Doñana, a straight line of 15 kilometers (round trip) with dunes, sand and vegetation on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other.
Among the professionals who compete in the test, highlight Emilio Martín, Duathlon World Champion and Yessica Pérez, winners of the last edition, as well as the Sevillian Sergio Cruz, winner in 2014 and 2015, and Huelva Juan Bautista Castilla 'Chamba', ultrafondista and long-distance triathlete. The swimmer from Jerez Conchi Badillo - Olympics in London 2012 - returns to the competition after his retirement, in a women's team.
'Minidesafío'
The 'Desafío Doñana' will count one more year with a parallel activity for the promotion of triathlon, the 'MiniDesafío', a aquathlon in which minors from 7 and 17 will participate, with categories of age groups from pre-benjamines to cadets and very affordable distances with the races in Bajo Guía and swimming in the waters of the beach itself, starting at 10.00 hours.
There are no previous results.
