Rubén Ruzafa and Roger Serrano dispute the XTERRA of Switzerland

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The Malaga player is looking for his sixth victory this season

Tomorrow, Saturday, a new edition of the XTERRA Switzerland, first test of "maximum category" of XTERRA European Tour with 15.000 dollars in prizes and 100 points in the European ranking for winners.

Rubén Ruzafa is the main favorite to victory in a "perfect" season with five wins in the five XTERRA competitions he has played XTERRA Meeting, XTERRA Greece, XTERRA Spain, XTERRA Portugal y XTERRA Bégica. For its part Roger Serrano also has options to the podium, comes to be proclaimed last week runners-up of Spain of Triathlon Cros in Aguilar de Campo and will try to remove the spit from a few weeks ago when he could not finish the race XTERRA Bégica.

In addition to the Andalusian and Catalan, the rest of the favorites are the French Arthur Serrieres y Fracois Carloni, the New Zealander Sam Osborne and the South African Bradley Weiss. A third Spanish will also be present in the elite event, Xavier Jové Riart.

In the female category the Czech Helena Erbenová is the main candidate for victory along with the Hungarian Brigitta Poór, the swiss Angela Niklaus y Ladina Buss and the Dutch SAnne Van Paassen.

The competition will be held next Saturday 24 June will start the 14: 00 hours. The distances are 1500m of swimming in the lake of Joux, following with 26km of BTT, divided in 2 turns of 13km by a fast and technical circuit of "only" 200m of slope by turn. Finally, they will finish with 10km of running race around Lake Brenet.

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