Mario Mola wins the World Series of Yokohama. Fernando Alarza third
Mario Mola gets his first win this season and Fernando Alarza climbs for the first time to the podium with a third place. Antonio Serrat with a great career finished in the eleventh position.
After the female test, where Flora Duffy has achieved victory, the men's event has been disputed, where we had the presence of Mario Mola that came out with the number 1, Fernando Alarza y Antonio Serrat.
The test began at 6 in the morning with the 1.500 meters of swimming over two laps, where Richard Varga was the fastest starting in the lead followed by the group with Dmitry Polyanskiv at 1 second and by Matthew Hauser at 2. Mario Mola and Fernando Alarza came out together seconds and Antonio Serrat 15 seconds from the head.
Swimming exit video
End of the swim and a large pack of men will form on the bike! Will we see any breakaways? Only one way to find out! https://t.co/y8dlHRYkwP pic.twitter.com/N6HgyoDlNQ
- World Triathlon (@worldtriathlon) May 12th 2018
In the 40 km of cycling we could see a compact group at all times with all the favorites that arrived next to the T2 with 33 units. The persecuting group entered 1: 06 with Joao Silva and Crisanto Grajales.
T2 entry video
An exciting foot race awaits as nearly 40 men entered T2 together and onto the run! Who will make it to the end for the #WTSYokohama gold? https://t.co/y8dlHRYkwP has the answer NOW! pic.twitter.com/NUzew4zHER
- World Triathlon (@worldtriathlon) May 12th 2018
At the start of the 10 race kilometers Mario Mola, proved to be the fastest placing himself at the head of the race, where he was opening little by little differences with Fernando Alarza and Antonio Serrat, the Spaniards who were occupying the first positions of the race.
Mario Mola with the best career sector getting his third victory in Yokohama achieved with a time of 1: 44: 59.
In the fight for the second place we could see a duel between Fernando Alarza and the Australian Jacob Birtwistle who were together until the final km of the race where finally Jacob Birtwistle (1: 45: 50) surpassed him in the last meters getting second place while Fernando Alarza (1: 45: 51) came in third position. Antonio Serrat has finished the test in eleventh place
Classification
1 #1 Mario Mola ESP 01: 44: 59
2 #9 Jacob Birtwhistle AUS 01: 45: 40
3 #4 Fernando Alarza ESP 01: 45: 51
4 #11 Tyler Mislawchuk CAN 01: 46: 10
5 #35 Bence Bicsák HUN 01: 46: 11
6 #25 Rostislav Pevtsov AZE 01: 46: 13
7 #15 Ryan Bailie AUS 01: 46: 15
8 #38 Sam Ward NZL 01: 46: 18
9 #46 Luke Willian AUS 01: 46: 22
10 #7 Vincent Luis FRA 01: 46: 23With this victory Mario Mola consolidates as leader of the world circuit in the test where the olympic path begins to Tokyo 2020. The next stop of the circuit will be in Leeds (Uk) on June 9 and 10
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