Judith Corachán kicks off season at Ironman 70.3 South Africa
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Judith Corachán will be the first Spanish PRO to compete in the Ironman franchise, this coming January 28 on the Ironman 70.3 in South Africa.
A few days ago we announced the first competitions in 2018 of several of the Spanish PROs triathletes, Judith Corachán in the IM 70.3 of South Africa and Emilio Aguayo y Eneko Llanos at IM 70.3 in Dubai next week. This Sunday 27 It's the turn of the Catalan in South Africa, country that will host the Ironman World Championship 70.3 next September.
The competition consists of the classic distances of half ironman, that is to say 1.900m to a return in the Indian Ocean. Later the triathletes will pedal during 90km in a circuit also to a return, the first 45km itch upwards, with false ascending plains and short steep slopes until the turning point that is more than 500m of altitude, where the triathletes will turn and They will return by the same place, so the second part of the cycle segment is favorable. Finally the test will end with the half marathon, 21,1 km of running on foot to two laps of 10,55km with much of the route parallel to the sea.
The main favorites to victory are the British Emma Pallant, current vice-champion of the world of IM 70.3 and the South African Jeanni Syemour, which was 8ª at the Chattanooga World Cup. Other candidates for the podium are Susie Cheetham, Annah Watkinson o Parys Edwadrs. So it refers to Judith Corachán, of all the participants only Pallant and Syemour got better results than her in the world, so they have a great option to fight with the best in South Africa.
As far as men's competition is concerned, a very open race is expected, with several candidates to occupy the podium places: Kenneth Vandendriessche, Domenico Passuello, Kyle Buckingham, Evert Scheltinga o Matt Trautman.
The competition will start the 6: 45 local time (7: 45 Spanish time) with the PRO male output and 5 'after the women will. Later it will be the turn of the age groups, where a massive participation in search of slots for the world is expected, since the IM 70.3 of South Africa has 100 slots, the competition that more quotas distributes for the world-wide one of the specialty.
Photo: Instagram Judith Corachan @jlhourcade
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