Fernando Alarza silver in the ITU Pan American Cup of Viña del Mar
Magnificent debut for Spanish Fernando Alarza that with the second place in this race has obtained the first silver medal of the season. 2012 will be an intense year as all the triathletes are going to play the qualification for the Olympic games.
The British Ritchie Nicholls won the Pan American Triathlon Cup, in the elite men's category, held in Viña del Mar and which included the participation of athletes from 23 countries.
The athlete British He used a time of 1 hour, 43 minutes and 53 seconds to finish the competition. In second position came the Spanish Fernando Alarza just 30 seconds behind and the Argentine Rodrigo Nogueras finished third, 50 seconds behind the winner.
Alarza came out of the water very well, together with the Slovakian Richard Vargas and they tried to take advantage in the cycling stage, attempting a breakaway that was achieved by the secondary group which included Nicholls, the Brazilian Sclebin, the Argentine Tellechea, the North American Brown, the Mexican Garza and among them the Chilean Felipe Van de Wyngard.
The group only separated in the last kilometer before the transition of the race section. It was at that moment when Nicholls and Alarza escaped from the group and with a sustained pace they began to run without looking back. Nicholls sac
He had a few meters advantage in the last two laps to Alarza who began to feel the wear and tear of a performance in the water and of the cycling breakaway, so he could not get closer to the Briton who arrived with a lead of half a minute.
Nicholls, I did not expect a result like the one obtained: we are in the middle of winter, I have not worked in the best way and I did not plan to win in Chile, but I felt good and I am very happy with the result, I also really liked this country and I hope return next year to defend this title, commented the winner of the event.
The Spanish Miguel ÁNgel Fidalgo finished the competition in 17th place.
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