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Mario Mola logra la victoria en Hamburgo y recupera el liderato de las Series Mundiales
15 julio, 2017 35 Visitas
Nueva victoria española en una prueba de las series mundiales, esta vez en Hamburgo. El balear Mario Mola, gran dominador de la competición, logró la victoria con solvencia, y de nuevo pasa a liderar la clasificación general del mundial. El talaverano Fernando Alarza, que desciende un peldaño hasta la segunda posición de la general, se vio involucrado en una caída en el ecuador del ciclismo y se vio obligado a abandonar. Y de esta forma despejaba el camino de Mario en post del liderato de la general.
El segundo español en meta ha sido nuestra leyenda Javier Gómez Noya, que con su quinto puesto logra mantenerse en la tercera posición de la general, por lo que seguimos contando con los tres primeros clasificados después de cinco pruebas disputadas. Gran carrera del gallego, que sigue luchando con sus cinco títulos mundiales a la espalda y contra triatletas mucho más jóvenes que él.
Vicente Hernández llegó en el puesto 13º, confirmando que está recuperado al 100% de la lesión y que este año ha dado un paso adelante en su progresión en el circuito mundial y haciéndose un hueco entre los mejores.
Por último, el joven triatleta de La Roda David Castro terminó en el puesto 48ª, con flato durante la carrera a pie y sufriendo en los últimos metros del segmento ciclista por no perder el contacto con el grupo. Una experiencia más para él, y que al menos logró terminar la carrera.
Duffy, dominio de principio a fin
La prueba femenina estuvo dominada por la triatleta de Bermuda Flora Duffy. Como viene siendo habitual en las últimas competiciones en las que ha participado, su dominio ha sido incontestable de principio a fin. Salió en los puestos cabeceros de natación, junto con Carolina Routier, y tras escaparse en la bicicleta marcó su ritmo a pie que la permitió lograr la victoria con mucha superioridad. Por detrás, Carolina hacía su mejor carrera en Series Mundiales este año, permaneciendo en el grupo perseguidor sobre las dos ruedas y terminando la carrera a pie en el puesto 19º. En la prueba femenina también se produjo un accidente durante el segmento de ciclismo, que dejó a Anna Godoy e Inés Santiago cortadas después de firmar un gran segmento de natación y permanecer en el grupo perseguidor hasta el ecuador de la prueba. De esta forma ambas perdían contacto y se quedaban en un segundo grupo sin posibilidades de luchar por un mejor puesto. Finalmente Inés terminó la 30ª y Anna Godoy la 34º. Buena carrera de las tres, con buenas sensaciones para las próximas pruebas.
Mañana se celebra la prueba de relevos, que recientemente ha sido incluido dentro del programa olímpico de Tokyo2020, y donde veremos cuál es el equipo español que toma la salida y si estaremos en condiciones de luchar por las medallas. Como resumen, buena actuación de la selección de la Federación Española de Triatlón en tierras alemanas. La próxima prueba de las Series Mundiales será en Canadá. concretamente en Edmonton el fin de semana del 28 y 29 de julio.
Clasificaciòn
1 Mario Mola 1990 ESP 2 00:54:08 00:08:55 00:00:38 00:30:16 00:00:22 00:14:01
2 Jacob Birtwhistle 1995 AUS 16 00:54:20 00:08:50 00:00:41 00:30:17 00:00:20 00:14:15
3 Ryan Sissons 1988 NZL 24 00:54:23 00:09:05 00:00:36 00:30:09 00:00:20 00:14:16
4 Vincent Luis 1989 FRA 8 00:54:26 00:09:00 00:00:38 00:30:13 00:00:21 00:14:18
5 Javier Gomez Noya 1983 ESP 3 00:54:28 00:08:54 00:00:37 00:30:20 00:00:21 00:14:19
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13 Vicente Hernandez 1991 ESP 9 00:54:47 00:08:59 00:00:38 00:30:17 00:00:23 00:14:35
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48 David Castro Fajardo 1993 ESP 52 00:57:51 00:08:58 00:00:37 00:30:37 00:00:24 00:17:18
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Becoming the first man to ever repeat a win at the venue, Spaniard Mola earns first-ever repeat WTS Hamburg win
by Chelsea White on 15 Jul, 2017 03:45
Becoming the first man to ever repeat a win at the venue, Spaniard Mario Mola captured his fifth career sprint distance victory at the 2017 ITU World Triathlon Hamburg.
Surviving and conquering a mass pack that lasted throughout the race, Mola earned his win on the run, where he eased on by his competition on the five-kilometre course. The win not only put Mola in a tied position for most sprint distance victories in a career (with Jonathan Brownlee), but also pushed him to the position of most WTS sprint distance podiums in ITU history with eight.Mola said of his performance, “It might be, I feel really good today. Since the beginning of the race I think I swam pretty good, was able to stay quite close to the front in order to avoid possible crashes, I just heard that Fernando (Alarza) crashed so I hope he is okay, but then I felt really good on the run so I haven’t seen any times yet but I am very happy with the result.”
“I am very happy when I am able to do a good swim and perform well. It does not always happen, unless you are one of those five or six guys you are going to be in a fight, but today I ended up successfully out of the fight and I am pleased with that.”For the second year in a row, the silver medal went to Aussie Jacob Birtwhistle, who similar to 2016 put forth a last second effort in the final metres to bypass the competition and get the second place. The bronze medal then went to Kiwi Ryan Sissons, who earned his first WTS podium of his career. With the silver and bronze going to Birtwhistle and Sissons, it became the first time that two elites from Oceania were on the WTS podium together since 2010.
“I don’t know really, but I always seem to have that little something there I guess from my history as a runner before I made that switch to triathlon. I would rather not put myself in that position to not have to chase like that in the last 500 metres, but when it comes to days like today I am glad that it is there,” Birtwhistle said. “I love Hamburg, it is hands down my favourite race on the circuit. The fans are awesome, the crowds are awesome. Thankfully I have managed to have a couple of good races here as well, so really I am happy to be back and I hope it continues.”
As one of the longest-standing races on the WTS circuit, Hamburg is always an electric and thrilling race for fans and athletes. With thousands of people lining the streets to cheer on the elites, the men’s start list was stock full of talent looking to perform in front of the alive crowd.Diving into the water for the short swim, the field did not have the distance to spread out. While Aussie Matt Hauser exited the waters first in only his second ever WTS race, he was not alone. The busy first transition followed out into the bike course and the pack reached well over 30 men, including all the top names.Unfortunately the tightly-packed bunch had its effects and a bike crash occurred early in the first lap that forced the number one ranked Fernado Alarza (ESP) to pull out of the race.
The remainder of the bike leg was pretty consistent without much change. The large pack did not separate and as busy as the first transition was, the second was just as occupied.That meant that the podium would be left to the run.Right out of the gate a group of five men bunched up with Mola, Birtwhistle, Sissons, Javier Gomez Noya (ESP) and Kristian Blummenfelt (NOR) getting the early advantage.
It was just a matter of moments however that Mola broke ahead and he never slowed down once. His push was enough to get the distance that he needed to head into the finish line without any pressure from the field behind him. He collected the Hamburg gold medal for the second consecutive year in a row.
The silver and bronze medal contenders changed multiple times. While Gomez had a small breakaway that put him into the second-place position, Sissons then caught up to him and for a while it looked like he would take the silver.
All the while, Richard Murray (RSA) who was left towards the back of the bike pack after the swim, came blowing by athlete after athlete and at one point was in fourth place.
It wasn’t until the final 500 metres that out of the woodwork Birtwhistle came blasting by and headed into the finish chute to claim the silver. Sissons followed shortly after to get the bronze, a historic medal for the Kiwi.
“I could not be happier really, this is one of my favourite races and I have always wanted to get on the podium. I just felt good today, I put myself in a good position the whole time and just believed in myself and have had a pretty good season so far, so my confidence is growing. I am just so happy, I can’t believe it,” said Sissons.
http://www.triathlon.org/news/article/mola_earns_first_ever_repeat_wts_hamburg_win
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