George Goodwin and Judith Corachan win the Half Triathlon Vitoria-Gasteiz
The Scottish 21 years old, gives the surprise getting the victory and Judith gets her second consecutive victory in the test
Today the twelfth edition of the Half Triathon Vitoria-Gasteiz was held, with more than 2.500 participants, achieving the record number of participation in the entire history of the event.
As usual, we found many of the best triathletes in the specialty such as Miguel Ángel Fidalgo, Erik Merino, Helene Alberdi, Maria Pujol, Judith Corachan, last year's winner or Dolça Ollé among others.
The young British Goodwin of 21 years gets the victory with a great comeback
The test began at 8:30 in the morning with the 1.900 meters of swimming in the Ullíbarri-Gambia reservoir where the first to get out of the water was Guillem Rojas, surpassing Miguel Ángel Fidalgo and Fernando Barroso by more than 2 minutes who started in third position with almost 3 minutes behind the leader.
In the 90 km of cycling, George Goodwin went back to place himself as a leader passing in the first checkpoint with 1: 40 advantage over Fidalgo and 5: 40 over Andújar.
Goodwin continued to increase the advantage over his pursuers passing through kilometer 70 of the circuit with a 3:50 advantage over Miguel Ángel Fidalgo and 6:35 over Pedro Andújar to finally reach T2 in first position. Finally Goodwin arrived first at T2 with more than 11 minutes over Fidalgo and a little further behind Andújar entered in third position.
In the 21 km of running the Scottish George Goodwin he knew how to maintain his advantage to get the victory in the test with a time of 3: 53: 17. the second has been Miguel Ángel Fidalgo (4: 02: 30) followed by Eric Merino (4: 06: 59) occupying the third final position. Pedro Andújar, who was third has been disqualified for an offense on the bike
George Goodwin @teamGoodwinTri of 21 years wins the #half @TriVitoriahttps://t.co/61rojbddyv pic.twitter.com/XpZXQSIQ60
- Triathlon News (@triatlonnoticia) July 8, 2018
Goodwin is having a great season where he has achieved victory in the Scottish Duathlon Championship, a second place in the Ironman 70.3 UK and a third place in the Challenge Salou
TOP 5 Male
1 George Goodwin 3:53:18 2 Miguel Ángel Fidalgo 4:02:29 3 Erik Merino 4:06:57 4 Ryan Waddington 4:08:06 5 Julen Díez 4:10:02
Judith Corachan repeats victory, dominating the test practically from the beginning
Judith @KORAXAN He wins #HALF @TriVitoria !! ??https://t.co/61rojaVCGX pic.twitter.com/S0EokwxAbW
- Triathlon News (@triatlonnoticia) July 8, 2018
The first to get out of the water was Helene Alberdi with 12 seconds ahead of Judith Corachan and María Pujol.
In the 90 km of cycling Judith Corachan demonstrated her quality by going to the head of the race and leaving alone to go through the first checkpoint with 3: 30 advantage over a group formed by Dolça Ollé, Helene Alberdi and Maria Pujol. Finally Corachan arrived first at the T2 followed by Sarah Bonner and Helene Alberdi and more than 5 minutes
In the race on foot, Judith Corachan he knew how to maintain his advantage to get his second victory in Vitoria with a time of 4:23:53 The second to enter the finish line was Helene Alberdi (4: 31: 48) followed by Sarah Bonner (4: 33: 46) occupying the third final position
Top 5 female
1 Judit Corachan 4:23:53 2 Helene Alberdi 4:31:48 3 Sarah Bonner 4:33:46 4 Dolle Olle 4:37:39 5 Maria Pujol 4:39:06
Photos: Triatlon News
