The fourth edition of Desafío Doñana will be held next September 28

El Doñana Challenge, one of the most demanding resistance tests of those held in Andalusia, already has a date for its fourth edition, the Saturday 28 2013 September. The event, which will once again be organized by the Ministry of Culture and Sports together with the Andalusian Triathlon Federation, will feature important new features along the way.

After the parenthesis in its celebration in 2012 the Challenge Doñana becomes stronger if possible, with the aim of achieving greater participation of athletes in the competition, which will help the new route that is shaping the organization, very attractive, and that will present important news in front of the three previous editions.

What will not suffer any change in the test, indicated in the press release, is the order of the three disciplines that make up the Doñana Challenge, different from the traditional triathlon tests. First the bicycle segment, for later cross to swim the Guadalquivir at its mouth and finish with the run on foot

Desafío Doñana has held three editions to date, the first of them at 2009, becoming one of the competitions with greater participation in this type of endurance tests, especially for the attractiveness and hardness of its route, when traveling by bicycle places of great beauty of the province of Cádiz, swim across the Guadalquivir at the height of Sanlúcar de Barrameda, and run on foot along the beach of the Doñana National Park.

The last edition broke its record of participation and had a great impact on the tourism sector, as hotels in municipalities in the provinces through which the competition ran registered high occupancy figures, and had an economic return of 1,5 million euros.

In the three previous editions the Desafío Doñana ran between the provinces of Cádiz and Huelva, crossing the Doñana National Park. The race was played in three categories on a total distance of 200 kilometers (169 kilometers on a bicycle, one kilometer on a swim -2,8 kilometers in the relay category- and 30 kilometers on foot). The test was accompanied by activities of animation directed to families and other spectators, as well as a 'Minidesafío' for minors, with the aim of promoting triathlon among the little ones.

Source: 20minutos.es