Volcano Triathlon

Virginia Berasategui competes in Gernika

Three of the greatest European duathlon figures and one of the leaders of the women's long-distance triathlon Virginia Berasategi will take part next Saturday in the Gernika Duathlon, the star test of the Basque season.

Urdaitri Triatloi Taldea, organizing group of the event, will have on the starting line the 2009 world champion and 2010 world runner-up, the Belgian Rob Woestenborghs, and the current European champion and runner-up, the Russian Serguei Yakovlev and the Spanish Víctor del Corral.

The fight for the top positions will be joined by Australians Ralf Baugh and James Attad and José Manuel Tovar, the Spaniard who became Spanish triathlon champion in 2009.

 

Among the women's entries, Virginia Berasategi stands out, European and Spanish champion in long triathlon and fourth in the famous Ironman from Hawaii, but since Gernika is a short race, it will have direct competition from Inmaculada Pereiro.

 

The promoters limit the registration to 400 participants for a good control of the test, which will have two sections of foot race of 5,2 and 2,5 kilometers and, between one and the other, a cycling segment of 23 kilometers.

While the foot race will take place in urban areas of Gernika, participants will do on the bike a route along paved routes in the Urdaibai reserve, which includes passing through Kortezubi and Arteaga and a turn at Laida beach to return to the chartered town of Gernika, a route with plenty of speed bumps and the climb to Labakoa, just 3 kilometres from the entrance to the pits for the last stretch on foot.

This Biscayan event, which includes an exhibition of duathlon and triathlon materials throughout the day on Saturday, will precede the 2011 Spanish championship in Soria by a week.

 

Source www.abc.es

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