Judith Corachán fourth in the IRONMAN 70.3 Dubai

The favorite Kristian Blummenfelt He had to retire due to gastric problems shortly after starting the cycling sector.

Today, the first of the Triple Crown events, the HOMBRE DE HIERRO 70.3 Dubai, where at first we were going to see the duel of Alistair Brownlee and Kristian Blummenfelt although finally it could not be.

The race began with a 1.900-meter swim where Adam Bowden and Eric Watson were the first to come out of the water. Blummenfelt came out seventh, 15 seconds behind the leader.

In the first kilometers of the cycling sector, the Norwegian was forced to retire, due to stomach discomfort, leaving the test open. In the passage through the 90 kilometer the French Sebastien Fraysee was leading with an advantage of 52 seconds over the persecuting group headed by the German Johan Ackermann but where Adam Bowden, Patrick Nilson or Eric Watson were among others.

Finally, in T2 Ackermann was the first to arrive with a 12 second difference over Fraysee, Bowden, Nilson and Watson. In the 21 km of the run we saw a clear dominator, Adam Bowden who gradually imposed his pace to pass the 13 km of the race with a 1:38 advantage over Patric Nilson and almost 4 over Fraysee.

Finally the victory was for the British Adam Bowden with a time of 3: 40: 11 followed by Swedish Patrick Nilson (3: 42: 50) and French Sebastien Fraysee (3: 47: 05) occupying the third final position.

Men's 10 Top

1 3: 40: 11 Adam Bowden
2 3: 42: 05 Patrik Nilsson
3 3: 47: 05 6: 55 Sebastien Fraysse
4 3: 47: 32 7: 22 Johann Ackermann
5 3: 48: 47 8: 36 Filipe Azevedo
6 3: 49: 00 8: 49 Milosz Sowinski
7 3: 50: 00 9: 50 Eric Watson
8 3: 50: 58 10: 48 Arnaud Guilloux
9 3: 52: 24 12: 14 Ronnie Schildknecht
10 3: 52: 57 12: 46 Guillaume Doree

Holly Lawrence dominates the test from start to finish

Regarding female participation, we had a Spanish representative, Judith Corachán, which began the season in this test.

The first to come out of the water was the British Holly Lawrence with a 1:24 advantage over her compatriot Frenella Langridge and 2:20 over the German Anne Haug.

In the bicycle sector Lawrence continued to increase its advantage to arrive in lonely and almost 6 minutes ahead to the T2 over Haug. Judith got off the bike in sixth position to little more than 1 minute of the podium.

In the race 21 km Holly Lawrence he was managing his advantage and although he was losing time he got the victory with a 4 time: 00: 27 followed by Anne Haug (4: 01: 42) and by Sarah Lewis (4: 09: 39) who got the third final position. Judith Corachán that was tracing positions finally was fourth with a time of 4: 14: 34

Top 8 female

1 4: 00: 04 Holly Lawrence
2 4: 01: 42 1: 39 Anne Haug
3 4: 09: 39 9: 36 Sarah Lewis
4 4: 14: 34 14: 31 Judith Corachan Vaquera
5 4: 16: 18 16: 15 Fenella Langridge
6 4: 17: 17 17: 14 Sara Van De Vel
7 4: 18: 46 18: 43 Anna Watkinson
8 4: 31: 04 31: 01 Karen Steurs

With this fourth place Judith has slot for the World Championship The event will be held in Nice, as the top three in the event were already qualified. Holly Laurence qualified last year by becoming World Champion in the event, Sara Lewis did it in Bahrain and Anne Haug only needed to finish a 3 event this year after her podium finish at the World Championships.

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