Alejandro Santamaría third in the Challenge Madrid

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The Belgian Timothy Van Houten He combines his full-time profession with the Triathlon and has won the first edition of the event. List Roberts gets the victory in the women's event. 7 Spanish in the Top 10

Today the first edition of Challenge Madrid where triathletes like Iván Alvarez, Gustavo Rodríguez, the New Zealand Dylan McNeice , Sofie Goss, Lisa Roberts o Dolca Ollé that debuted in the distance, was some of the favorite professionals for the final victory.

The test started the 7: 50 in the morning in the Madrid town of Buitrago de Lozoya with the 3,8 km of swimming in the Riosequillo reservoir

The first to get out of the water was New Zealander Dylan McNeice with a 5:42 minute lead over Portuguese Jose Estrangeiro, Zoltán Petsuk and David Castro. Mikel Elgezaban started 10 minutes and Alejandro Santamaria and Iván Alvaréz more than 11 from the head of the race.

Once on the bike the triathletes faced the 180 km of cycling with more than 3.000 meters of positive drift, where the New Zealander McNeice maintained the first position followed by the Spanish Mikel Elguezabal, who has once again demonstrated his great capacity in this segment in the pass by Rascafría the third was Timothy Van Houten who was going up time with respect to the duo head.

By passing through the town of El Escorial, Belgian Van Houten reached first position with a 42-second lead over Mikel and 1:50 over McNeice. In T2 located at Puente del Rey (Madrid Rio) Timothy Van Houten arrived in first position followed by Dylan McNeice at 6:19 and by German Chirs Fischerv third after more than 11 minutes. Gustavo Rodríguez was climbing positions to arrive fifth at T2. Javier García was sixth, Alejandro Santamaría seventh and Ramón Ejeda ninth, Mikel who made a mistake in a roundabout lost the options to continue fighting for the test

In the foot race of 42 km the Belgian Timothy Van Houten He was able to maintain the first position until the end getting the victory in the first edition of Challenge Madrid with a final time of 8: 33: 23. The second classified was the German Lukas Krämer (08: 49: 09). Alejandro Santamaría (8: 56: 21) was third completing the first podium of the test. Ramón Ejeda with a great race finished in fifth position while Iván Alvaréz it was seventh, Javier García ninth and Jose Almagro tenth

 

 

The New Zealander Dylan McNeice who was in the top positions had to retire in the second round of the race on foot because of discomfort in the back.

Cmale lasificacion

Pos	Participant	Meta
1	TIMOTHY VAN HOUTEMBEL	8:33:23
2	LUKAS KRÄMER Volllast	8:49:09
3	ALEJANDRO SANTAMARIA PEREZ	8:56:21
4	CHRIS FISCHER Viborg	9:02:21
5	RAMON EJEDA MEDINA	9:09:16
6	JULIAN MUTTERER	9:11:59
7	IVAN ÁLVAREZ GÓMEZ	9:12:44
8	ZOLTÁN PETSUK	9:13:42
9	JAVIER GARCIA GOMEZ	9:15:44
10	JOSE ALMAGRO VALERO	9:25:22

 

Lisa Roberts devastates

As for the women's test, the first to come out of the water was Gabriela Zelinka followed closely by Yvette Grice and Dolca Ollé in third position. The favorite Sofie Goos came out in fourth place to 20 seconds and Lisa Roberts to more than 7 minutes of the head of the race

On the bike, the first to go through Rascaría was Sofie Goos with a 1 minute lead over Gabriela Zelinka and 1:49 over Lisa Roberts who passed third with a spectacular comeback. Dolca was fourth already 15 minutes from Goos. Everything remained the same until the final part of the cycling segment where Lisa Roberts surpassed her competitors reaching T2 with 3:20 on Gabriela Zelinka and 4:34 on Sofie Goos, Dolca finished the segment in fifth position.

In the 42 km of foot race Lisa Roberts he was increasing his advantage to arrive alone to goal and to get the victory in a time of 09: 34: 51. . The second classified was Gabriela Zelinka  followed by Sofie Goos in third final position. Dolca Ollé I finish in a great fifth position in his debut in the distance and María Teresa Martínez Bautista It was ninth.

Women's Classification

Pain	Participant	Meta
1	LISA ROBERTS	9:34:51
2	GABRIELLA ZELINKA	9:53:42
3	SOFIE GOOS	10:12:12
4	ERIKA CSOMOR	10:43:42
5	DOLÇA OLLÉ GATELL	10:54:16
6	YVETTE GRICE	11:00:28
7	CARLA VAN ROOIJEN	11:21:37
8	JANA CANDROVA	11:42:12
9	Mª TERESA MARTÍNEZ BAUTISTA	12:28:19