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Mario Mola and Jodie Stimpson win the Garmin Barcelona Triathlon

The Spaniard closes in Barcelona a spectacular season in which he has established himself as one of the best international triathletes

 

Mario Mola He closed his sensational 2013 season this morning for the first time in his career the victory in the Garmin Barcelona Triathlon, In the female category, the British Jodie Stimpson, current Sub-World Champion, won the test with authority

 

 

After occupying the second position in the last two editions of the event, the Mallorcan won his status as favorite in a year in which he managed to be third classified both in the World Championships in London and in the European Championship.

 

At 8.10 in the morning the elite took the start at the Platja de la Nova Mar Bella and the great candidates for victory came out with little difference from the water, with Mario Mola and Cesc Godoy establishing a better set with 17:06 followed by Fernando Alarza, winner of the last edition, and the Italian Alessandro Fabian.

 

These four competitors were the ones who managed to form a leading group in the cycling sector that little by little was expanding advantage over its competitors. The result of the good understanding they had was the arrival to the second transition with an advantage of 30 seconds over the rest of the competitors that had formed a second group led by the British Matt Sharp.

 

The great surprise of the section of race on foot was the retirement of FernandoAlarza, winner of the last edition and defender of the title, who had to leave by indisposition. Alarza, current Sub-Champion of the World sub-23 category, was who he himself announced to his racing teammates, at the end of the cycling section, which he would surely abandon.

 

This incident made it clear that Mola, Godoy and Fabian were going to play in lacarrera on foot the final victory and the Mallorcan, one of the best international triathletes in precisely this stage of the competition, did not fail. Mario completed this third sector in 30: 18, taking the Italian in the partial 49 seconds walk and Godoy 1: 05.

 

Mola, in this way, crossed solo on the finish line with a total race time of 1: 46: 59. "It's a pleasure to have won this competition after two years being second. I felt comfortable in the swim section even though it is not the strongest of my disciplines "he explained after his arrival at the finish line. "In the race on foot I pushed hard at the beginning to try to leave behind my rivals and when I achieved that I tried to dose to maintain the advantage." "It has been a pleasure to enjoy Barcelona for the fourth year in a row." * Jodie Stimpson is not surprised *

 

In the women's category, the British Jodie Stimpson, current World Sub-Champion, won the race with authority although it was not until the last kilometer of the race on foot when she delivered the final blow. Until then it had been Catalonian Carolina Routier, current Sub-Champion of Spain Sub-23, who had been in the lead thanks to a sensational swimming stretch, her great specialty, in which she excelled Stimpson in 1: 03.

 

The advantage achieved in it could even extend it in the cycling sector, and departed with an advantage of almost three minutes over the British at the start of the race on foot. But in this third sector, Stimpson, who had already won the Garmin Barcelona Triathlon in the 2009 and 2010 editions, showed why his sensational season in the World Triathlon Series and managed to catch the young Spanish just one km from the finish line, setting a total time of 1: 54: 29

 

“I am very happy to get my third victory in Barcelona. I had to use myself to the maximum in the walking sector to catch Carolina, whom I congratulate for the sensational run she has done ”, explained the British. "After two years without being in this event, I have enjoyed the experience again, with different courses on which I won in 2010 and which have improved in every way".

 

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