The Madrid KM0 Triathlon opens the doors of its Expo Zone in Madrid Río

Alejandro Santamaría, Gustavo Rodríguez, Julia Bohn and Kathrin Anna Walther collect the first elite numbers

 

 

 

In the absence of only 48h for the start of the first long distance triathlon Madrid KM0 that will host the Community, the registered 354 have gradually begun to collect their bibs, bag-bags for transitions and accreditation bracelets in the tent that the organization has located on the Explanada del Puente del Rey in Madrid Río. They still have time all day tomorrow although the agenda for Saturday is loaded for them with the delivery of competition material in the 2 transition of Madrid River except for the bikes that together with the technical meeting and the well-known "pasta-party "It will be done in Buitrago de Lozoya.

Five are the athletes who, due to their state of form and experience in this type of competition, stand out a priori as candidates for the triumph of this first edition of the Triathlon Madrid KM0: Alejandro Santamaría y Diego Paredes, in male elite category, and Spanish Helena Herrero next to the two German representatives Julia Bohn y Kathrin Anna Walther, in elite females.

The first ones to jump into the water on Sunday at the Reservoir of Riosequillo de Buitrago de Lozoya will be the female elite girls (7: 51h), followed by the male elite and the rest of the sections by age. At the end of the 3,8 km of swimming they will make the first transition to the side of the reservoir and take the bikes to crown the ports of Miraflores, Rascafría, Cotos, Navacerrada, Guadarrama in a long journey through the Sierra Norte de Madrid of 171 km.

Finally, the marathon that begins in the transition of the Explanada del Puente del Rey will begin with a four laps tour of Madrid Río which has the finish line in the very heart of the capital, the famous KM0 of the Puerta del Sol .

"KM0 is a project whose objective is to consolidatein the medium-long term among the best tests of its specialty within the national and international calendar ", according to words from test director, Alfonso Rodríguez de Sadia.

The participants are disappointed in compliments about this test, "Km0 is one of the most ambitious projects I've seen in triathlon", says Diego Paredes, from Extremadura "It is the first time that a sporting event has the end in the Puerta del Sol and only for that reason we have to feel privileged", points out his partner Alejandro Santamaría.

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