Rubén Ruzafa wins the Xterra Belgium

10 June, 2017Updated on January 31, 2024

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Today the sixth stage of the European circuit Xterra was held, where we had two Spaniards on the professional start list.

On the one hand, the malagueño Rubén Ruzafa, which achieves its fifth consecutive victory this 2017 and its 28ª in XTERRA tests, and the Catalan Roger Serrano that this year he has achieved a victory in the European circuit in the Xterra Malta has not been able to finish the race.

The swimming took place in the river Meuse with a distance of 1.500m surrounding the fluvial island of the city. Later the triathletes covered 33 kilometers of cycling in a very complete route, with hard climbs (1100m of vertical drop in total), technical descents, sectors with mud as well as fast and flat areas. Finally the triathletes swe faced 10km taking two laps a circuit of 5km in the historic Ciudadella de Namur.

Rubén Ruzafa got the victory in a time of 2: 45: 42, followed by the Swiss Xavier Dafflon (2:46:34) and by the Belgian Yeray Luxem (2: 48: 27) in third position.

Classification:

Pos	Name, NAT	Time
1	Ruben Ruzafa, ESP	2:45:42
2	Xavier Dafflon, SUI	2:46:34
3	Yeray Luxem, BEL	2:48:27

With this victory, the fourth in a row on the circuit, Rubén continues to lead the European Ranking with 37 points of advantage over the second. Roger Serrano falls to fifth position

As for the women's event, the victory has been for the favorite Helena Erbenova completing the test in a time of 3: 14: 59, followed in second position by the Austrian Carina Wasle (3: 19: 49) and by the French Morgane Riou (3: 23: 5) occupying the third final position.

Female classification