Fernando Alarza wins everyone in the World Series in Cape Town
Awesome career of Alarza getting his first victory in a World Series, Mario Mola fourth and Vicente Hernández eighth
At the 14: 00 it was the girls' turn, where Non Standford has achieved the victory and the Spanish Ainhoa Murua finished 11th; Miriam Casillas 23rd, Carolina Routier 27th and at 16:30 the men's competition started
High level triathlon we have been able to see where Mario Mola he was the big favorite for the victory and for the first time he came out with number 1 and Fernando Alarza with number 2. Javier Gómez Noya, Alistair Brownlee and Richard Murray were the great absences of the test
The first to leave the water was Richard Varga; Fernando Alarza went to 6 seconds and Vicente Hernández to 11 ''. Mario Mola came out with 29 seconds behind in the water,
The first ones in the T1 to catch the bike to face the 20 km of route were Fernando Alarza, Aurelian Raphael and Jonathan Brownlee among others. The group of 14 imposed a strong rhythm from the beginning that served them to obtain an advantage of 28 "in the first round on the pursuer group where Mario Mola was.
During the rest of laps the advantage was maintained on the 27 '' seconds. Finally, the 14 group with Alarza, Brownlee, Raphael or Connix arrived at the T2 with 23 seconds ahead of the group of Mario Mola and Vicente Hernández.
The first to start running were Jonathan Brownlee and Connix, followed closely by Fernando Alarza where the 3 practically in a series of 1.000 took the lead by leaving alone.
This group of 3 went together until the last kilometer where Fernando and Jonathan picked up the French, from there offering a beautiful fight, we could see the Spanish who was little by little taking a slight advantage to reach the goal alone, getting his first victory in a World Series as a professional with a time of 54:11. The second to arrive was Jonathan Brownnlee 5 seconds more tearde followed by French Dorian Connix in third final position
Mario Mola in an impressive run on foot entered in fourth final position, Vicente Hernández eighth. Nan Oliveras I finish the test in the 55 position
Provisional Classification
1 |
Fernando Alarza |
ESP |
00:54:11 |
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2 |
Jonathan Brownlee |
GBR |
00:05 |
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3 |
Dorian Coninx |
FRA |
00:11 |
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4 |
Mario Mola |
ESP |
00:20 |
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5 |
Pierre Le Corre |
FRA |
00:25 |
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6 |
Henri Schoeman |
RSA |
00:28 |
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7 |
Aurelien Raphael |
FRA |
00:36 |
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8 |
Vicente Hernandez |
ESP |
00:40 |
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9 |
Richard Varga |
SVK |
00:40 |
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10 |
Andrea Salvisberg |
SUI |
00:43
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After this race the world ranking is as follows:
1º Mario Mola 2233
2º Fernando Alarza 2173
3º Jonathan Brownlee (GBR) 1425
5º Vicente Hernández 1026
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