Gurutze Frades fifth in the Ironman of South Africa. Ben Hoffman and Daniela Ryf devastate and take the victory

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The victory has been for Ben Hoffman and Daniela Ryf falling by 8 and 9 hours respectively 

A spectacular race has been lived in the first KPR 4000 of the season, with Two men going down from 8h and reaching the finish line separated by only 50”. Eneko Llanos has achieved a meritorious 14ª position, while in the female category the winner has been the intractable Daniela Ryf dominating the test from beginning to end achieving download 9 hours in the test where a great Gurutze Frades he has achieved the fifth final position.

Male career

With the first rays of the sun at 6:30 o'clock, the start of a new edition of the Ironman in South Africa was given. The swimming was one lap and with wetsuit. Josh Amberger was the first to get out of the water with a time of 48:01 and next to him just a few seconds out was Harry Wiltshire. A minute behind them was a large group with almost all the favorites, led by Ben Hoffman and Van Lierde, while Eneko closed the group in T1 in 18th position. Three minutes later, Victor del Corral arrived who was forced to leave the cycling sector in the middle of a puncture in his front wheel that made him lose a lot of time and finally all the decision to leave.

Eneko Llanos climbed up positions and reached T12 2th in a group with several triathletes and with options to fight for the top 5. The Basque got off the bike 8 ′ behind the surprising leader in T2, the Australian Cameron Wurf, second was the German Niks Frommhold 2 ′ from the head of the race and third Ben Hoffman 1 ′ from the German.

The marathon was going to be the judge of the competition, soon the Australian lost the advantage and was surpassed by Frommhold and Hoffman. At km 15,6 Hoffman was the leader, followed 40" behind Frommhold, David McNamee was in third place, 4' behind, and Kyle Buckingham and James Cunnama by more than 7'.

Finally Ben Hoffman He takes the victory and the direct pass to Kona with a time of 7:58:40 and becomes the first sub 8h triathlete on the African continent. Second at 50” was the German Nils Frommhold and third the British David McNamme to 8 'from the German. For his part Eneko reached the finish line in the 14º position with a time of 8: 34: 15

Video of arrival to goal

Top 10 male:

1 Ben HOFFMAN (# 1) 07: 58: 39 
2 Nils FROMMHOLD (#3) 07: 59: 29 + 00: 50 
3 David MCNAMEE (# 10) 08: 07: 30 + 08: 51 
4 Kyle BUCKINGHAM (#6) 08: 08: 57 + 10: 18 
5 Jan Van Berkel (# 38) 08: 12: 34 + 13: 55 
6 Boris STEIN (# 4) 08: 16: 11 + 17: 32 
7 Frederik VAN LIERDE (#2) 08: 19: 09 + 20: 30
8 Giulio MOLINARI (# 28) 08: 21: 08 + 22: 29 
9 Andrej VISTICA (#40) 08: 23: 20 + 24: 41 
10 James CUNNAMA (#7) 08: 24: 41 + 26: 02

Female career

Daniela Ryf She was the dominator of the test from start to finish, coming out of the water first, leaving alone in the cycling sector to reach T2 with more than 3 minutes of advantage and get the victory with a spectacular time of 8:47: 02 followed by the Finnish Kaisa Lehtonen (8:52:26) in second position and by Susie Cheetham (9:04:48) in third position.

Video of arrival to goal

Regarding the Spanish participants Gurutze Frades has managed to finish the test in fifth position, achieving his best partial in swimming, completing the 3,8 km of swimming in 1:00:37, in the 180 km of cycling he reached T2 in 13th position and in a great race at Pie was climbing positions to get the fifth place with a time of 9:24:58. Helena Herreno I did not complete the cyclist sector of the test.

 

Top 10 Feminine:

1 Daniela RYF (#43) 08: 47: 01 
2 Kaisa LEHTONEN (#42) 08: 52: 25 + 05: 23 
3 Susie CHEETHAM (#45) 09: 04: 48 + 17: 47 
4 Astrid STIENEN (#47) 09: 24: 36 + 37: 35 
5 Gurutze FRADES (#50) 09:24:58 +37:56 
6 Katja KONSCHAK (#65) 09: 25: 39 + 38: 37 
7 Alexandra TONDEUR (#72) 09: 26: 28 + 39: 26
8 Jeanne COLLONGE (#56) 09: 27: 18 + 40: 16 
9 Nikki BARTLETT (#54) 09: 27: 49 + 40: 47 
10 Katharina Grohmann (# 51) 09: 29: 20 + 42: 18

 

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