Emilio Aguayo and Lucy Charles win the Volcano Triathlon

It is the oldest triathlon in Spain that this year has completed the XXXV edition.

Emilio Aguayo of the club CDM CL AVANT Moncada and the British Lucy Charles from Club Team CB have registered their names on the list of winners of the XXXV today Volcano Triathlon, the oldest in Spain, and they have done so brilliantly.

The test had about 470 participants, with a large presence of many canaries followed by peninsular and foreigners. The day was cloudy with a good temperature, and without the dreaded wind, a circumstance that greatly helped the evolution of the participants, as reflected by the marks achieved.

Excellent performance of the Spanish Emilio Aguayo

The swimming test took place in the Laguna de la Santa at 10 o'clock. The first to come out of the water would be the Tenerife Disa HPS, Ricardo Hernández, followed a single second by the current leader of the Canarias Triathlon series, Raúl Lecuona, and then Emilio Aguayo.

In the second segment, 40 km. On the road that goes to Famara passing through Soo, the Spanish Aguayo completed an excellent route making the best partial, taking the lead through Caleta Caballo shortly after starting with the excellent time of 56 minutes 51 seconds.

It would reach the third and final segment of 10 km. in the direction of the town of La Santa with several turns, and here the Spanish Emilio Aguayo was untreatable, with the best part-time of 32 minutes 31 seconds, entering in goal to the champion with a total time of 1 hour 52 minutes 27 seconds, followed by German Stefan Schmid with 1 h. 55.34 and from Tenerife Raúl Lecuona with 1 h. 55.46, strengthened its dominance in the Canary Series of Triathlon. The two best Canarians behind Lecuona were Ricardo Hernández (6º) and Juan Luis Díaz Barroso (9º).

Lucy Charles intractable

 In the feminine section, the British Lucy Charles She said days before that she was going to take the competition as a training session and she did so, but her level is so great that she came out of the water first in 18 minutes 8 seconds, she made the second best partial on the bike that would correspond to the Dutch based in Lanzarote Tessa Kortekaas with 1 h. 03.20, but in the race on foot he would regain the advantage of his rival, setting the best time with 38 minutes 11 seconds.

His final triumph was unappealable with a total time trial of 2 h. 05.12, followed by Kortekaas with 2 h.10.43 and the Belgian Amber Rombaut (ITZU Triteam) with 2h. 14.12. The best Canarian would be the Tenerife Raquel Arostegui in the fourth place with 2 h. 16.28. In this way, the Canary Islands achieved some great results in their first competition in the Canary Series, since they had been in the Peninsula participating in the Spanish Championship with their current team the Imps of Rivas.

Excellent organization of the La Santa Club, with a large audience witnessing the event, especially swimming and running, since the cycling circuit was outside the facilities of the aforementioned club. At night the awards ceremony of the best in their respective categories is scheduled

There are no previous results.

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