Judith Corachán and Vicente Hernández for the Challenge Sardinia

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The Italian island of Sardinia hosts the last great mid-season triathlon in Europe of the season, with an impressive level of professionals in both men's and women's categories.

El Challenge Forte Village Sardinia it is disputed next Sunday 29 in October with the presence of four Spaniards in the PRO category, two of them top 20 worldwide in their respective specialties. Judith Corachán was 20ª in the Ironman 70.3 World Championship of Chatanooga and Vicente Hernández 13º in the ITU World Cup, who will make his debut in middle distance as he already told in a interview that he awarded to Triathlon News a few weeks ago. They will also compete Iñaki Baldellou, triathlete who has shone in several competitions of the Challenge circuit, highlighting the victory in Salou last year y Ricardo Hernández, 3º in the past Cto. of Spain Olympic distance.

As we have previously mentioned, the Challenge Forte Village Sardinia presents an exit list that could well be classified as the "MD European Championship". In the men's category, the presence of two winners of the Ironman of Lanzarote stands out. Alexander Degasperi and the Belgian Bart Aernouts, in addition to Italian Giulio Molinari (the last triathlete to win Frodeno in MD) and the German Andreas Dreitz top10 in 70.3 world.

As far as the women's competition is concerned, the current champion of Ironman Lanzarote and 2º stands out in the Hawaii World Championship, the young Briton Lucy Charles, as well as the winner of the Ironman Barcelona the Dutch Yvonne Van Vlerken. Other favorites to win are the Belgians Sofie Goss y Tine Deckers along with the German Natascha Smith.

Male and female start list

The competition will start on Sunday at the 8: 00 in the morning, under the typical distances 1,9 km of swimming, 90km of cycling and 21,1 km of running.

Photo: Challenge Sardinia