The favorites meet the forecast in Gijón
The athletes of the Cidade de Lugo-Fluvial Triathlon club Gustavo Rodríguez and Beatriz Tenreiro won the “Villa de Gijón, Daniel Guzmán Memorial” Duathlon, which was held on Friday morning near Poniente beach in Gijón with a participation close to 200 athletes. There were no surprises, since the two winners started out as favorites and met the predictions.
The test was developed in the sprint modality, that is, 5 kilometers of running, 20 in bike and 2,5 again for the running race and the first to take off were the athletes in the elite category, both male and female, on a fairly cool morning with a light drizzle for some moments of the race. Beatriz Tenreiro made the most of her status as favourite and won with a time of 1 hour, 6 minutes and 38 seconds followed by Sonia Juliá (Igualada) with 1.07.05, Verónica Montes (Fogar) in 1.07.08, Elena Barlabe (Igualada) in 1.07.34 and Beatriz Álvarez (Academia Civil-El Musel) in 1.09.38 and the first Asturian in the category. In the men's event, Gustavo Rodríguez won with complete authority, as he was almost two minutes ahead of the second-place finisher, Alberto González (Valdemoro), as the winner took 53 minutes and 22 seconds to complete the event, compared to 55.13 seconds for the second-place finisher.
In third position finished the Asturian Emilio Suárez (Castrillón), who entered just two seconds behind González, after starring in a beautiful duel throughout the entire race, while fourth was Francisco González (Diabillos Rivas) in 55.49, and fifth Gustavo Platas (Cidade de Lugo-Fluvial) in 58.11.
In the team classification, the event's organizing club Academia Civil-El Musel won the women's category and Cidade de Lugo-Fluvial won the men's category.
This test was a qualifier for the Spanish Duathlon Championship that will be held on May 5 and 6 in the Murcian town of Águilas, which hosts this competition after Segovia resigned from organizing it, when it was the city that had been initially granted. This last-minute resignation was on the verge of canceling the Spanish Championship, but finally Águilas decided to organize it, although not on the dates initially planned, which will cause some damage, since it will now coincide with other events in different points of Spain. In addition to the elite competition there were classifications in age groups.
Source: .lne.es
