Previous Championships of Duathlon Europe: Mavi Garcia and Emilio Martín lead the "DUARMADA

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The world medalists, the Balearic Mavi Garcia (bronze) and the Andalusian Emilio Martín (silver), lead the Spanish team with clear possibilities for the two to fight for victory.

The next weekend will be held in the city of Soria el Duathlon European Championship. It will be the fifth major championship to be played in Spain in the last seven seasons, in 2016 was the World Cup in Avilés, in 2015 the European of Alcobendas, in 2014 the World Cup in Pontevedra and in 2011 the World Cup in Gijón.

The competition will be held under standard distance (10km of race on foot, 40km of cycling and 5km of running race) twice the Spanish championship. The first 10km are divided into four laps of 2,5km with several turns of 180º, then the duatletas will 6 returns to a hard circuit of 6,6km until totaling the 40km of cycling to finish running two laps to the same circuit of the first segment until covering the 5km.

In the male category Emilio Martín is one of the main favorites, along with the trio of French formed by Benoit Nicolas, Yohan Le Berre and Benjamín Choquert. The rest of Spaniards in competition will be Sergio Lorenzo, Luis Miguel Martín Berlanas, Cristobal Garcia y Marcos Yaniz, in addition to the sub23 Javier Martín, Diego Dobles, Ovidi Albert and Urko Herran.

Emilio Martín and Mavi Garcia

In the women Mavi Garcia is one of the candidates for victory, along with the Austrian Sandrina Illes and the French Julie Chuberre and Sandra Levenez. The other Spaniards in competition will be Davinia Albinyana, Sonia Bejarano, Sara Bonilla y Maria Varo, while in sub23 they will be Noelia Juan, Laura Gómez, Irene Loizate and Claudia Montagut.

Throughout the weekend Soria will be the European epicenter of the duathlon, with age group tests (sprint and standard), Junior competitions and Queens tests. The elite women's race will start on 29 on Saturday at 15: 15 and the men will be at 18: 00.

Photo @Yeray Menéndez

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