Miquel Blanchart eighth in the Ironman 70.3 Dubai

Jan Frodeno and Daniela Ryf take the victory

 

Today was the first important race of the season where the best triathletes in the world have not disappointed and have won.

Jan Frodeno, Iroman 70.3 World Champion and Ironman in 2015 took the victory with a final time of 3: 34: 48 followed in second position by Josh Amberger (3: 41: 42) and for Bart Aernouts (3: 43: 58) in third position. The Catalan Miquel Blanchart has achieved a magnificent position reaching the eighth final position with a time of 3: 49'54 "

Miquel has been telling us his first impressions after the test

"The race was a bit strange, since in the swim there have finally been 2 laps of swimming inside the port, which has made it a bit chaotic.

During the swim, you dismissed me a bit and I was a little behind. I tried to reach the first group, but I stayed in no man's land,

When we got out of the water, we found a link of 600-700 very hard meters running down the beach, I left the T1 in 9ª position. Already on the bike, I have been in the top group until km 45 with the group of Bart Arneauts, until they went ahead and I was alone the last 35 km with a very hard face wind,

The T2 arrived at the 12ª position, once in the race I did not feel well until the 1º lap, since I had a cramp in the abductor, but little by little I was finding myself better and I was climbing positions until I reached the eighth position final to only 5 seconds of the seventh.

I am very happy, I have taken some 180 points, which will be very good for me in the classification of Hawaii, since I have to get as many points as possible and I have to do 2 Ironman 70.3"

 

Top 10 Men

1 3: 34: 48 Jan Frodeno 
2 3: 41: 42 6: 54 Josh Amberger 
3 3: 43: 58 9: 10 Bart Aernouts 
4 3: 44: 01 9: 13 Terenzo Bozzone 
5 3: 44: 35 9: 47 Jaroslav Kovacic 
6 3: 49: 20 14: 32 Nick Baldwin 
7 3: 49: 48 15: 00 Brad Williams 
8 3: 49: 54 15: 06 Miquel Blanchart Tint 
9 3: 51: 20 16: 33 Andrej Vistica 
10 3: 53: 19 18: 31 Olivier Godart 

 

In the female category, Daniela Ryf He has not disappointed and has taken the victory with a 4 time: 01: 09 followed by his compatriot Caroline Steffen (4:05:01) and from the Findan Kaisa Lehtonen (4: 05: 03) in third final position.

Both have taken the step to get the triple crown, a prize that consists of winning the tests of the Ironman 70.3 Dubai the January 29, the Ironman World Championship 70.3 in Mooloolaba (Australia) on September 4 and in the Ironman 70.3 Bahrain the 10 December.

 

Top 10 Feminine

1 4: 01: 09 Daniela Ryf 
2 4: 05: 01 3: 53 Caroline Steffen 
3 4: 05: 03 3: 55 Kaisa Lehtonen 
4 4: 09: 27 8: 19 Jocelyn McCauley 
5 4: 10: 51 9: 42 Andrea Forrest 
6 4: 14: 13 13: 05 Tine Deckers 
7 4: 19: 13 18: 05 Corinne Abraham 
8 4: 22: 12 21: 03 Annah Watkinson 
9 4: 24: 21 23: 13 Celine Schaerer 
10 4: 26: 13 25: 04 Renee Baker

 

Photo: FB Miquel Blanchart / @minchalar