Vicent Luis and Gary Hall European Champions Sprint Triathlon. Inés Santiago 7ª best Spanish

The French Vicent Luis one of the candidates for medal at the Rio Olympic Games took the victory in the men's event while the British Lucy Hall did the same in the women's competition

 

 

The women gave the starting signal to the Sprint Triathlon European Championship from Châteauroux in France, promptly at 13:00 p.m. After a quick swim the British Learmounth and Hall were the first to complete the 750m swim, followed by the Dutch Kingma, the Russian Abrosimova and the Brazilian Oliveira. Anna Godoy She was the first of the Spanish in T1 at 20 '' from the leaders.

From the first meters of cycling, the two Britons left alone as they did in the European Cup of Quarteira. Behind a group of 20 units is formed, where the French shyly pull. We could see Marta Sánchez always well placed in the top positions of the group and the rest of Spanish also well positioned. Hall and Learmounth arrive at the T2 with more than 1'30 '' of advantage, so the victory would be between them. After completing the whole competition together in the sprint final Gary Hall Victory is won ahead of Learmounth. The third position was for the French Cessandre Beaugrand with the best partial on foot.

As regards the Spanish companies, Inés Santiago He led the "TriArmadita" achieving the 7ª position after a great race on foot (4º best partial). Anna Godoy (15ª) and Cecilia Santamaria (20ª) were the other top20. On the other hand Marta Sánchez finished in 23ª position.

 

After the 15: 45 was the turn of men, where the French from the first strokes take the control of the test coming to break in swimming. Vicent Luis, was the first to arrive at the T1, with his compatriots Anthony Pujadres and Aurelien Raphael and the Russian Dimitry Polyanskiy. This quartet arrives with 5 '' to the T1, enough so that after making a very fast transition the 4 will escape just getting on the bike.

The weight of the escape was always borne by the French who never stopped relieving themselves. Behind David Castro was well placed from the T1 in a second group of about 15 units. A little more behind did the juniors Javier Lluch and Alberto Gonzalez During the first kilometers of cycling the quartet head opened gap, while behind the group was selected based on jerks and accelerations. David Castro requested the wheel of this second group and was hunted by the third of the rest of Spaniards. In the last kilometers of cycling the second group hunted down the 4 leaders by taking down 15 triathletes to run together.

After the 5km of running, the victory was for Vicent Luis, followed by Azerbaijani Rostislav Pevtsov and the British podium closed Grant Sheldon.

As regards the Spanish performance, the best was the junior European champion Javier Lluch in 22ª position. After the in the 29ª plaza arrived Alberto González The new European champion sub23 David Castro he finished in the 45ª, something that honors him, he did not retire (when it had been "easy") before a race that was not going well.

Final female classification

Final male classification

Photo Inés Santiago FETRI. Vicent Luis FFTRI photos.

 

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