Frederik Van Lierde wins his fifth victory at the Ironman in Nice

{wbamp-meta name"image" url"images/stories/noticias_08/frederick-van-lierde-ironman-nizaJPG.JPG" width"300" height"150"} The Belgian has equaled Marcel Zamora as the top winners of the test (both with five) achieving victory in the years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017 and 2018 The Ironman of Nice is one of the oldest and most important triathlons in the world as we define in an article, one of the "5 triathlon monuments ”. The test was born in 1982 and until 2004 it was a long distance triathlon, distance C (4+120+30), and among its winners are Mark Allen with 10 wins and Paula Newby-Fraser with 4. Nice is the event of the Ironman circuit with the most victories of Spanish triathletes (in the men's category) thanks above all to the 5 victories of Marcel Zamora and that of Víctor del Corral in 2016. In addition to their victories, the Catalans have two more podiums each and another Spaniard who has achieved a podium was Clemente Alonso. In the test we had the presence of Eneko Llanos, Víctor del Corral and Albert Moreno Ironman Nice start The moment of the start #IRONMANFrance - the race is on! pic.twitter.com/9dj3dtpcHG - IRONMANLive (@IRONMANLive) June 24, 2018 The test began at 6:30 in the morning with the 3.800-meter swim, where the fastest was the French Robin Pasteur leaving with 1:30 ahead of Mattew Leeman, Frederick Van Lierde, Romain Guillaume. Eneko Llanos started ninth at 1:41 and Albert Moreno tenth at 6:32. In the 180 km of cycling, a group of 6 was formed in the lead in the first kilometers with Van Lierde, Llanos, Guillaume where little by little Cameron Wurf was climbing positions to reach the leadership of the test on the 100 kilometer of race, where He was already 34 seconds ahead of the group of Van Lierde and Eneko Llanos. The Australian, with a spectacular segment sometimes running at 50 km/h, completing it in 4:32:20, gradually increased his lead to reach T2 with a 6-minute advantage over Van Lierde and Antony Costes. Eneko Llanos completed the sixth sector at 6:30 from the head of the race. Albert Moreno was tenth. Victor del Corral abandoned the test at km 120 of the cycling sector. Cameron Wurf in the cycling segment In 6th place we have @cameronwurf making up ground, he is 2:39 behind the lead group #IRONMANFrance pic.twitter.com/aKugIwitLw — IRONMANLive (@IRONMANLive) June 24, 2018 In the race to foot Van Lierde was cutting Wurf's time going through kilometer 15 of the race to just 1 minute. The Belgian continued with a great pace, reaching the leadership of the test and passing with a 2-minute advantage for kilometer 21 of the race. Finally, Frederick Van Lierde achieved victory with a time of 8:25:22, being his fifth victory in the Test. The Belgian holds the test record achieved in 2013 with a time of 8:08:59. The second classified was the Frenchman Antony Costes (8:35:42) followed by Cameron Wurf (8:39:51) who came from behind in the final part to reach third place. The only Spaniard who has finished the test has been Vicenc Castella in 12th position. Eneko Llanos, Alber Moreno and Víctor del Corral have not finished Top 10 Men:1 VAN LIERDE, Frederik (BEL) 08:25:222 COSTES, Antony (FRA) +10:20 08:35:423 WURF, Cameron (AUS) +13:52 08:39:144 GUILLAUME, Romain (FRA) +14:29 08:39:515 MOLINARI, Giulio (ITA) +21:55 08:47:176 VAN HOUTEM, Timothy (BEL) +29:25 08:54:477 VISTICA, Andrej (CRO) +30:51 08:56:138 DIEMUNSCH, Etienne (FRA) +31:03 08:56:259 DEFILIPPIS, Scott (USA) +32:11 08:57:3310 GOMES, Pedro (POR) +41:08 09:06:30 Arrival of Frederick Van Lierde The winning splits @fvanlierde - 50:54 swim / 4:43:42 bike / 2:44:45 run - great performance # IronmanFrance pic.twitter.com/pc43yYhTby — IRONMANLive (@IRONMANLive) June 24, 2018 As for the women's event, we did not have a Spanish presence, the victory went to the British Corinne Abraham, with a time of 9:11: 39, The second classified has been Carrie Lester (9:27:30), winner of last year followed by , Manon Genet (9:32:34) occupying the third position final. Corrine and Manon arrived practically together at the T2 but the Briton showed her quality in the race on foot to get the final victory.

Frederik Van Lierde wins his fifth victory at the Ironman in Nice

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