Tim Don seeks to seal his qualification for Kona in the Copenhagen IM

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The Clemente and Michael Alonso brothers compete in the Danish event. 

Next Sunday, 19 will contest the Ironman de Copenhagen, el last European that closes the classification for the Kona World Cup. In this test there will only be male PROs triathletes. The PROs women have their last IM in Europe the day before in the Kalmar in Sweden. 

Tim Don It is the greatstrella on the list of departure, where he signed up a few days ago after deciding what would be in this Danish test where would try to close his classification for the Ironman World Cup after not being able to do it in the IM of Hamburg, where the test had to be played as a duathlon (6 km of running on foot + 180 of cycling + 42 km of running on foot) when the swimming stopped, something that hurt the Briton, where it could only be 9º.

Recall in the British suffered a hard accident in the days before the Hawaii World Cup last year when suffering an accident that produced the fracture of the vertex C2. After a long and hard recovery Don returned the competition in the Boston Marathon.

Subsequently, the IM 70.3 of Costa Rica and the IM of Hamburg ran. Today Tim Don has 31.60 KPR points thanks to its results, the 70.3 IM World Championship last year where 3 was, the 70.3 triumph in Costa Rica and the 9 plaza in Hamburg. In Copenhagen I would need an 6 position to be in Kona.

clement Alonso part with number 1 and his brother Michael with the 12, being the Spanish PROs in the list of exit. In addition to Don other triathletes looking in the Danish capital to seal their pass to Kona: Boris Stein, Nick Baldwin, Giulio Molinari, Jesper Svenson, Cyril Viennot, Johan Ackermann, Sefan Schild and Danil Sapunov. All of them together with Tim Don y clement Alonso They are the favorites to fight for the podium.

Photos: On running UK, Trimexio and IM 703 Costa Rica