Swimming is canceled in the Challenge Salou and shortened in IRONMAN Barcelona

Breaking news. Due to bad weather conditions the swimming sector of the Challenge Salou has been suspended.

Salou has decided to modify the race to leave it in Duathlon format 5-90-21

In the case of IRONMAN and IORNMAN 70.3 Barcelona that is being held today, it has been decided to shorten the swimming to only 900 meters.

This is the statement from Challenge Salou

"For security reasons, we must cancel the swimming sector, which will be replaced by 10k running.
For security reasons, we must cancel the swimming sector, which will be replaced by 10k running.

The competition will be in DUATLON mode: [5km / 90km / 21km] 1/3/4 laps for Middle Distance and in Short Distance [5km / 60km / 10km] 1/2/2 laps."

 

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