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Alex Yee 2024 Triathlon World Champion

Haiden Wilde wins the Grand Final.

After the women's event held yesterday, where the Frenchwoman Cassandre Beaugrand he took the victory and the world title, today it was the turn of the men's event.

The British Alex Yee He arrived at the event with three consecutive victories in Olympic distance, including the Paris Olympic Games, and started as the big favorite. Yee All he needed to do was finish in the top six to become this year's World Champion.

The competition, which was held over Olympic distance (1.500 metres of swimming, 40 km of cycling and 10 km of running), was held under perfect temperature conditions.

In the swimming segment, the first to get out of the water was the Portuguese Basque Vilaça, followed 5 seconds behind by a stretched group with all the favorites.

During cycling, at the end of the first lap a small group consisting of Leo Bergere, Tayler Reid, Haiden Wilde, and Vincent Luis, who were gradually increasing the distance from the chasing group where they were Alex Yee.

On the second lap, the gap was 29 seconds and increasing further. On the fifth lap it was already over a minute, and they finally reached T2 with a lead of 1:38 over the chasing group. Yee.

During the running race, Savage y Bergère They left the rest of the escapees behind, while Yee was gaining ground. As he passed kilometre 1, Yee He had already placed sixth and was closing the gap on the podium positions, although Savage y Bergère They were running at the same pace during that stretch of the race.

Savage He went solo on the second lap, passing with a lead of 28 seconds over Bergère. Vincent Luis He moved into third position at 1:12, while Yee He was still in sixth position, 1:42 behind the New Zealander, but now only 30 seconds away from the podium positions.

On the third lap Wilde was still in first place with 53 seconds over Bergere and 1:35 over Yee who was third.

Finally, the victory went to Hayden Wilde with a time of 1:42:22. The Frenchman Leo Bergere managed to maintain second place by reaching 1:02 while Alex Yee, finished third at 1:28 behind the New Zealander.

As for the Spanish, the best classified was Sergio Baxter  13º, Antonio Serrat finished in 17th place, Alberto Gonzalez 19º, Roberto Sánchez Mantecón 32º and Vicente Hernández 40 º

Top 10 men Grand Final Torremolinos 2024

Job title Athlete Final time
1 Hayden Wilde 01:42:22
2 Léo Bergere 01:43:24
3 Alex Yee 01:43:50
4 Dorian Coninx 01:44:03
5 Pierre Le Corre 01:44:04
6 Csongor Lehmann 01:44:08
7 Tayler Reid 01:44:12
8 Vincent Luis 01:44:22
9 Tyler Mislawchuk 01:44:26
10 Hugo Milner 01:44:31

Complete classifications 

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