Xavi Llobet, winner of the Valencia Triathlon

This morning, the Catalan triathlete

Today's winner, a team champion in 2010 and an Olympian in Athens, demonstrated his dominance in the running leg after experiencing a problem during the final transition as he left his bike to begin the third leg. This mishap cost him valuable seconds and led to a protest. For this reason, Llobet's time is not yet official. He collapsed to the ground exhausted after finishing the race and received treatment for severe muscle strains.

In second place has finished the manisero Víctor Candel, one of the revelations of the Valencia Olympic triathlon, since he has surpassed the other top favorite, the Antella triathlete Jordi Pascual, third in the national ranking of this sport.

A total of 2.200 athletes have participated between yesterday and today in the different modalities of the Valencia Triathlon, which this year has managed to double the number of registered triathletes.

At eight in the morning, when dozens of young people were leaving the nightclubs in the Port area and the beach, the Olympic category triathletes were already in the water to cover 1.500 meters in the dock. In this first part of the competition, the swimmer from Burjassot has stood out Emilio Aguayo, who in the end was left off the podium due to plantar fasciitis. Then they did the 40 km by bike and finished with the 10 km run on foot.

Source: lasprovincias.es