Eneko Llanos fourth and Víctor del Corral fifth in Ironman France
Today was held in the town of Nice (France) one of the most important appointments of the Ironman world calendar, the Ironman France, where were two Spaniards on the starting line Eneko Llanos and Victor del Corral.
Eneko Llanos who came from being second in the Ironman from Austria, was aiming for the “virtual” qualification for Kona before July 31st when the first cut will be made, and Victor del Corral, who was feeling good, wanted to try again in an Ironman race.
The test began at 6:30 in the morning, where the first to complete the 3,8 km of swimming was the French Denis Chervot, followed by Etienne Diemunch at 10 seconds and by Frederick Van Lierde at 16 in third position. Eneko Llanos with a large sector came out 1:39 from the head of the race.
In the 180 km of cycling we saw how the Ironman World Champion in 2013 Frederick Van Lierde took the head of the race and was increasing the distance on his pursuers to get to the T2 in the lead with 26 seconds ahead of the Australian Cameron Wurf.
Behind the Spanish Eneko Llanos remained in first positions in the entire segment to reach the T2 in third place with a difference of 10 minutes on Van Lierde, for his part victor del Corral, with a spectacular segment of cycling, was climbing positions to get to the Transition in eighth position.
In the race on foot, the Belgian Frederick Van Lierde He knew how to maintain the advantage to achieve the final victory in a time of 8: 31: 31.
Goal video
. @fvanlierde takes his 4th in Nice win to these splits: 49: 21 swim / 4: 39: 00 bike / 2: 57: 19 run #IMFrance pic.twitter.com/IsIJqFBcdm
- IronmanLIVE.com (@IRONMANLive) July 23, 2017
In the fight for the podium positions, a great Eneko Llanos reached the second place in the 20 km test, although the Italian Alessandro Desgasperri, it happened in km 26 climbing to the second place of the podium with a final time of 08: 36: 18. In the last kilometers of the test the French Denis Chervotm (08: 39: 42) also surpassed Eneko Llanos (08: 40: 54) which was finally fourth in the test.
Victor del Corral, with a great comeback in the cycling sector, showed his great moment of form by climbing positions to finally finish fifth in the race with a time of 08: 53: 37
TOP 5
1 VAN LIERDE, Frederik (BEL) 8:31:31 2 DEGASPERI, Alessandro (ITA) 8:36:18 3 CHEVROT, Denis (FRA) 8:39:42 4 LLANOS, Eneko (ESP) 8:40:54 5 DEL CORRAL, Victor (ESP) 8:53:37
Eneko Llanos published in his social networks the following statement, explaining that he will no longer fight for his classification for Kona
What a torture day, everything looked good when I was second in the marathon but until then I arrived, from the half marathon it was pure survival to reach the finish line. It is a pity to lose the podium finally and it is a pity not to get the necessary positions for Kona, but it will not be bad for me to have a different October.
First of all rest, that after 4 IM this year it's my turn.Thank you all for the encouragement, messages and well wishes, very grateful for your support! “
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