Alejandro Santamaría and Sonja Skevin win the Full Triathlon Vitoria-Gasteiz 2018
The triathlete has achieved his second victory in the race after the 2014. Ruth Brito third is the best Spanish
Today the twelfth edition of the Vitoria-Gasteiz Triathon was held, where as usual we found many of the best triathletes in the specialty such as the winners of the test Brooke Brown, Iván Álvarez, Julia Mai, Alejandro Santamaría, Pedro Gomes or Diego Paredes .
Comeback and second victory in the Santamaría race
The test began at 8: 30 in the morning with the 3.800 meters swimming in the swamp of Landa where the first to leave the water was Pakillo Fernández Cortes followed closely by Mattew Leeman. To 1: 20 of the head was a group of 4 with Xavier Torrades and Dani Múgica
Really, Daniel Marín was the first to get out of the water but he did not compete as a professional, but in age groups 35-39 years.
In the cycling sector, in the first 100 kilometers of the race, Pakillo Fernández was leading, followed by Pedro Gomes, and by Daniel Múgica, who passed third at that point.
Little by little Dani Múgica, bronze in the past MD Spain Championship, was climbing to be the leader of the test to reach the T2 with 1 minute advantage over Raúl Tejada and 1: 30 over Pedro Gomes who left the bike in third position.
In the 42 km of running, we could see how Alejandro Santamaria was climbing positions to reach the lead with 10 kilometers remaining, followed by Xavier Torrades and Raul Tejada in third position at that point.
Finally Alejandro Santamaría got his second victory in the test with a time of 8: 17: 05 followed by Xavier Torrades (8: 19: 00) and for Raúl Tejada (8: 22: 23) occupying the third final position
Alejandro Santamaría @trientrenos He wins #full @TriVitoria #TriVitoria2018 https://t.co/7wNPDsTecX pic.twitter.com/t9AagQqfrJ
- Triathlon News (@triatlonnoticia) July 8, 2018
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1 ALEJANDRO SANTAMARIA PEREZ 8:17:05 2 XAVIER TORRADES SABATA 8:19:00 3 RAUL TEJADA 8:22:23 4 VICTOR ARROYO 8:25:23 5 QUIQUE MARTINEZ 8:28:52 6 DIEGO PAREDES 8:30:21 7 MOISES VIDAL 8:31:25 8 SERGE MARQUES 8:33:01 9 AMAURY DEHEZ 8:34:27 10 MATIJA AVIROVIĆ 8:38:32 Female test
In the female category, the first to complete the swimming segment was Emma Deary, with more than 8 minutes on Sonja Skevin and Carmen Macheriotou. Almost ten minutes away, the first Spanish, Ruth Brito, second classified in 2017 Julia Mai, winner last year and one of the favorites left the swimming sector, leaving a very open test.
In the cycling segment we could see a great comeback from Ruth who placed second in the 120 km of the race just 3 minutes from Emma Deary who was still leading the test. Brooke Brown was in third position at that point, 4 minutes behind the race leader.
Finally, Emma Deary was the first to leave the bike, followed by Vanessa Pererira and Ruth Brito who was third in T2. Both very close to the leader of the race.
In the running race, Emma Deary was gradually losing distance over Sonja Skevin who at kilometer 17 was just over 1 minute from the head of the race. The Portuguese Pereira, who was third, did so a minute later, while Brito was fourth at almost 4 minutes.
Sonja Skevin reached the head of the race at kilometer 25 and went solo for victory, but we were able to experience an exciting fight for second place between Pereira, Brito and Deary
Finally the Croatian Sonja Skevin got the final victory in a time of 9: 29: 04. The second to enter the goal was Vanessa Pereira (9: 33: 36) and the third was Ruth Brito (9: 34: 14)
Sonja Skevin wins the #FULL @TriVitoria #TRIVITORIA2018 https://t.co/7wNPDsTecX pic.twitter.com/usRKYrUD76
- Triathlon News (@triatlonnoticia) July 8, 2018
Women's Classification
1 SONJA ŠKEVIN 9:29:04 2 VANESSA PEREIRA 9:33:36 3 RUTH BRITO CURBELO 9:34:14 4 EMMA DEARY 9:42:13 5 ALBA REGUILLO 9:45:13
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