Eneko Llanos and Víctor del Corral to all in the Ironman of Nice

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El Nice Ironman It is one of the oldest and most important triathlons in the world

This Sunday a new edition of the Ironman of France is held, in the city of Nice, where the Catalan Víctor del Corral defends the title obtained last year, while Eneko Llanos arrives strong after being second a few days ago in the Ironman of Austria, aspires to fight for the first positions and get points for Kona.

El Nice Ironman (former Nice International Triathlon) is one of the oldest and most important triathlons in the world as defined in an article, one of the "5 triathlon monuments". The test was born in 1982 and until 2004 was a long distance triathlon, distance C (4 + 120 + 30), and among its winners stand out Mark Allen with 10 wins and Paula Newby-Fraser with 4.

 

They also won in Nice some of the greatest triathletes in history as Luc Van Lierde, Rob Barel, Simon Lessing or Mirinda Carfrae. Later in the year 2015 was renamed Ironman Nice and played under the mythical distance 3,8 + 180 + 42. Nice is the test of the Ironman circuit with more triumphs of Spanish triathletes (in male category) thanks above all to the 5 victories of Marcel Zamora and the one Víctor del Corral last year. The Catalans count in addition to their triumphs with two more podios each and another Spanish that has achieved podium was Clemente Alonso

In this edition of 2017 the main favorites with Víctor del Corral winner last year, the Belgian Frederik Van Lierde triple winner in Nice, the Italian Alexander Degasperi, the Ukrainian Viktor Zyemtser and also Eneko Llanos aspire to everything. There will be another Spanish in the PRO category Dominique Wymmersh.

As regards the female category, the main favorite is the Swiss Emma Bilham together with the American Lisa Roberts, the australian Annabel Luxford and Carrie Lester and French Camille Deligny

Male and female start list

The test will start the 6: 25 next Sunday 23 with the PRO male output, one minute later turn to the start of the female PRO competition and then the age groups, where there will be more than Spanish 150.

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