Uxío Abuín, Antonio Serrat, Inés Santiago and Camila Alonso lead the 27 triathletes competing in the European Cup in Melilla

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The city hosts a new European Cup, the third of the year after Gran Canaria and Quarteira, this coming Sunday, 15 in April. Melilla will be an important competition for many triathletes with options to get a place in next world cups.

Melilla hosts for the fourth consecutive year a test of the European Cup. The race is done under Olympic distance, swimming consists of 2 turns of 750m in the Mediterranean Sea next to the harbor. Later the triathletes will cover the 38 km of cycling, giving 8 and half a circuit of 4,4 km. Finally the competition will end with 10km of the race on foot, divided into 4 laps of 2,5km.

In the women's competition there will be 13 triathletes, being Inés Santiago, Cecilia Santamaría, Sara Pézez y Camila Alonso the main tricks of the TRIarmada The favorites to win are the Italian Verena Steinhauser and the Dutch Kirsten Nuyes.

Female start list

As regards the men's competition, the Galicians Uxío Abuín y Antonio Serrat head a selection of 14 men where they also stand out Antonio Benito, Kevin Viñuela, Roberto Sánchez, David Castro y Cesc Godoy, that is, Spain will have a participation at the level of a national championship. Abuín and Serrat start with the numbers 1 and 2 with options of everything, and next to them, they are also favorites the Hungarian Márk Dévay, the Dutch Van Der Stel And French Heuber-Moosbrugger

Male start list

As we have previously mentioned, European Cup of Melilla It is an important test for Spanish triathletes, since according to the FETRI criteria the best Spanish in each category whenever it is top10 has insured place in the World Cups of Cagliari, Antwerp y Tiszaujvaros, and if it is also top5 he will also have a place for Glasgow Triathlon European Championship. 

The competitions will take place on Sunday 15, the 9: 00 will start the European Junior Women's Cup and the 10: 15 the male with a large Spanish participation. After the 15: 00 will be the turn for the female elite and the 18: 00 the male elite.

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