Saturday of glory of the Spanish triathletes

Sara Loehr wins in the Half Challenge of Paguera-Mallorca and Míriam Casillas 3ª in the World Cup in Alanya (Turkey)

 

Great Saturday of Spanish triathlon and duathlon, we woke up with the joy of the world title of Emilio Martín in the World Duathlon of Adelaide (Australia), hours later the girls took over from Emilio getting great results.

 

 

Half Challenge Paguera-Mallorca

At 9 in the morning, the Half Challenge Paguera-Mallorca proof that it was the debut in middle distance of the double runner-up of the world triathlon Mario Mola, who was one of the favorites to win at home, before his audience ... but a puncture left him out of the race in the cycling sector.

 

In the men's competition the Czech won Filip Ospalý, a veteran of 39 years, European champion in 2001. After the sensational ones Miguel Ángel Fidalgo y Marcel Zamora completed the podium in 2ª and 3ª position respectively.

The great triumph of the Spanish delegation was to come from the current champion of Spain MD. The British Catherine Jameson one of the ambassadors of the test was the first to finish the swim, after her in second place more than 1 'Dolça Ollé came out of the water.

After the T1 Jameson got the bike directly and was quickly increasing the advantage over the other rivals. As he passed by the KM 20 he took more than 5 'to a group where Verena Walter, Sara Loehr and Dolça Ollé were going. The British Jameson was the first to arrive at the T2, behind her was Verena Walter and later a group with 8 triathletes where the Spanish Sara and Dolça were.

At the beginning of the foot race Sara imposes a very strong pace and begins to close the gap with the two leading, first hunting the German Walter and finally the British Jameson. Sara took the lead but without slowing down. Behind her from behind other triathletes were climbing positions such as Maja Stage Nielsen and Anna Noguera. For his part, Dolça Ollé remained in the top 10 positions.

Finally Sara Loehr he won one of the best victories of his career, winning in the Half Challengue of Paguera-Mallorca, in second position to 2 'of Sara came the Danish Maja Stage Nielse and the German podium closed Verena Walter. Also highlight the results of the other two Spanish ELITE competitions, Anna Noguera 5ª and Dolça Ollé ª 8

World Cup Turkey

Minutes after the victory of Sara began the penultimate world cup, in the Turkish city of Alanya, with Spanish 6 in liza.

The American Summer Cook led the swimming with a group of units where as always the Catalan Carolina Routier was. Almost a minute and a half from them, a large group where they were Anna Godoy, Tamara Gómez and Míriam Casillas.

The four heads were hunted by the main group during cycling, where stood out Míriam Casillas, one of the most worked for the hunt and who made the best partial of all competitors. Everything was decided in the race on foot where they dropped some 20 triathletes run together.

The victory was for the Ukrainian Yuliya Yelistratova, the second position was obtained by the American Summer Cook and the third place on the podium for a sensational Míriam Casillas who obtained one of the best results of his sporting career in addition to adding valuable points for the Olympic ranking. For its part Carolina Routier it was 25ª, Anna Godoy 34ª and Anna Flaquer 45ª. Bad luck for Tamara Gómez y Laura Gomez that they had to leave.

(Photos Challengue Paguera and ITU)

Juan José Martí Ship