Vitoria welcomes this Sunday the Spanish Middle Distance Triathlon Championship

Last year, Vitoria was the venue for the European Triathlon Championship and this year, the best triathletes in the state will be the ones who will meet in the capital of Álava to compete in the national middle distance test, in which more than 470 athletes will take part. .

The event will be this Sunday, July 24, and attendees will play for the title on a route very similar to that of 2010, which will also be the same one that the followers of this practice who decide to participate in the World Long Distance Championships will have to face in 2012. making this city a reference for triathlon.

«It is a type of route Ironman. Triathlon has a relatively recent history, everyone links it to its beginnings in France, but the real push came in Hawaii to determine whether one activity was better than another and gathered 15 volunteers to see which was the toughest," explained Julio Iglesias, president of the Alava Triathlon Federation, yesterday.

1.900 meters swimming, 91 kilometers in bike and 21 metres of running distance will be the distance that participants will have to cover this weekend, among whom are prominent figures such as Peru Alfaro and Alejandro Santamaría.

The triathletic event will start at 9.00:XNUMX a.m. with the swimming test, which will take place in the Ullibarri-Gamboa reservoir, in the Landa Provincial Park, and will continue with the cyclist, which will consist of doing two laps of an attractive and safe circuit which will run along secondary, practically flat roads that border the Llanada, and will take the runners through different towns in the province.

The foot race, for its part, will be based on doing three laps of a 7-kilometer itinerary basically through the interior of the Salburua park wetlands until reaching the finish line, located at the Betoño municipal sports facilities.

And along with the elite event, the Age Group and Open events will also be held, the latter with the same distances. In addition, as an attractive prelude to the state championships, the Virgen Blanca Sprint Triathlon will also take place, which features 750 meters of swimming, 21 kilometers of cycling and 5 kilometers of running, for which registration is already closed with 259 triathletes, Between both competitions, there were more than 730 registered participants, including federated members and amateurs.

Of course, on the occasion of the event there will be temporary traffic restrictions in different parts of the city and the province, and from 7.30:10.00 a.m. to 18.30:XNUMX a.m. there will be road closures between Landa and Marieta and on the wetlands promenade until XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Furthermore, the organization urges people not to go to Landa with a private vehicle and to use public transportation that will depart from the Betoño parking lot.

Source: diariovasco.com