Vicente Hernández wins the IRONMAN 70.3 Perú

The triathlete from Tenerife has achieved victory in the IM 70.3 Peru that has been held today.

Vicente Hernández he was the first to get out of the water, with 7 seconds ahead of the North American Andy Potts, on the bike Chente was always in the top group until the km 56 where Potts surpassed him and the German Marcus Herbst, who came from behind very strong , Finally the duet arrived next to the T2 with 2: 33 of advantage over Vicente,

In the race on foot Herbst tried to leave the American attacking from the beginning he left in but Potts, little by little he was cutting distance to surpass him again and go forward. However, Chente with a great half marathon was going up time in each kilometer to reach the first position on km 13 to leave alone towards victory

Finally Vicente Hernández got the victory in a time of 3: 43: 40 second by Andy Potts (3:45:24) and by Kevin Collington (3: 46: 59) in third position.

Chente's times have been 22:56 in doing the 1.900 meters of swimming, 2:03: 38 in completing the 90km of cycling (at an average of 43,79 km / h) and 1:13:53 in doing the average marathon to win

Classification IM 70.3 Peru

With this position he gets the direct pass for the IRONMAN World Championship 70.3 which will be held in Nice in September, where he will be with Javier Gómez Noya, Fernando Alarza and Judith Corachán.

Chente, he told us in a interview that your goal of participating in this test was to go one step further in their workouts for the World Series.

It is second performance in medium distance tests with level, where he already achieved victory in the Challenge Sardinia last year, although has shown that it can perform at the highest level in this type of tests.

Your next objective will be the WTS of Bermuda, where he will compete with Mola and Noya, returning to see our "gold" Triarmada in an ITU event.

Regarding his recovery for this test he told us “There are two weeks of difference between the tests, I think it's enough time to recover. My trainings are still for Olympic distance, which I have concentrated more volume and specific training in the goat "

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