Emilio Martín the great favorite for the Duathlon World Championship

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The Duathlon World Championship will be the first major event in the world of Multipurpose Penticton in Canada.

From the 18 to the 27 in August in the Canadian city of Penticton the first edition of the Multideporte, where the world championships of Duathlon, Aquatlon, Cross Triathlon, LD Triathlon and also Aquabike will be played (this modality only in GGEE).

As we advanced a few days ago in Triathlon news The Spanish team will be formed by Emilio Martín, Javier Marín, Sonia Bejarano y Mavi Garcia

The ITU has decided to host several of its World Championships in a single event, so during the next days the city of Penticton will be a party with elite competitions and age groups from all over the world to compete in different disciplines of the federation. international triathlon. In total there will be 200.000 dollars in prizes to be distributed among the four races with elite category.

The competition will be held under standard distance (10km of running, 40km of cycling and 5km of running race). The first 10km are divided into four laps of 2,5km in a round trip circuit by Lake Okanagan, in a straight circuit with two turns of 180º, then the duatletas will give 5 laps to a broken 8km cycle circuit until totaling the 40km of cycling to finish running two laps on the same circuit of the first segment to cover the 5km.

Spanish World Duathlon Championship 2017

The male category Emilio Martín is the main favorite, current champion of Europe and part with number 1. A priori the three French Choquert, Nicolas y Le Only will be the main rivals of Emilio in his attempt to be triple world champion. For its part Javier Marín You will have options to shine in the sub23 category, which runs alongside the elites.

As far as the feminine category is concerned, don are the gold favorites, the British Emma Pallant and the French Sandra Levenez. You also have to take into account the Italian Sara Dossera, a great athlete, who if he endures on a bike will be dangerous in the final 5k. On the Spanish side Mavi Garcia it is the current world bronze and in Penticton it aspires to fight also for the medals. Sonia Bejarano 8ª in the European in Soria and 8ª in the world championship in Pontevedra here in Canada has options to improve those results.

On Sunday 19 the competition will be held, the women will be the first to the 11: 15 in the morning (local time) and the 14: 00 will do the men.

Photos: Mavi García, Emilio Martín and Sonia Bejarano → ITU / Javier Martín → Facebook Javier Martín

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