After the doublet achieved by Mario Mola and Fernando Alarza in the men's race, the 13 women's test came to 00, which also ran on sprint distance.
In this test all eyes were on Vicky Holland (33 years), world champion last year and Katie Zaferes second, in a test where we had 4 Spanish triathletes where Carolina Routier, he returned to compete in the World Series after his accident, although he already reappeared in competition in the World Cup in Cape Town. The rest of Spanish in the test were Miriam Casillas, Sara Perez y Anna Godoy.
The test began with the 750-meter swim, without the use of wetsuits, where the first to get out of the water was Jessica Leartmonth followed by Summer Rappaport, Katie Zaferes and Taylor Spivey. Carolina Routier started in fifth position at 6 seconds, Sara Pérez started 11th, Anna Godoy 12th and Miriam Casillas in 35th position. Reigning champion Vicky Holland finished the segment 16 seconds behind the head of the race.
In the cycling segment, we could also see that in the male test, falls in the same place, the first exit curve of the pits, making the athletes when passing through this point were much more nervous.
In the first kilometers of the cycling segment, a leading group of 7 units was formed with Katie Zaferes, Taylor Knibb, Jessica Lermonth, Emma Jeffcoat, Lotte Miller, Maya Kingma and Taylor Spivey s with 20 seconds of advantage over the chasing group where Vicky were Holland in addition to all the Spanish.
Little by little they expanded the advantage to go through the second lap to 27 seconds, by the third to 44 and in the fourth to 58 seconds. Finally the group of 6 units (Emma Jeffcoat was left off the hook) arrived with a 1:14 advantage over the chasing group of Holland, Gentle or Stanford among others. In this group the Spanish came except for Anna Godoy who suffered some incident in the test since she left the bike at 2:44 from the head of the race.
After a quick transition, Katie Zaferes took the lead by leaving alone, leaving her fellow runaways behind. In the passage through the first lap, Zaferes was still in the lead with 5 seconds ahead of his compatriot Spivey and 10 over Leathmont and Knibb.
Finally Katie Zaferes He again distanced his pursuers to reach the goal alone and achieve victory with a time of 55:31. The second classified has been Taylor Spivey (55: 57) followed by Taylor knibb (55:58). Vicky Holland It has been eighth
As for the Spanish Carolina Routier It has been 27º, Sara Perez 28º and Miriam Casillas 34º. Anna Godoy was 41ª.
Currently Spain has 2 places for the Olympic Games of Tokyo 2020,.
