Pontevedra prepares for Duathlon World Champs

by Erin Greene on 23 May, 2014 10:12 • Español

With just over a week until the 2014 Pontevedra ITU Duathlon World Championships, Pontevedra held the official presentation of this great event, which will bring together more than 1,400 athletes from more than thirty countries between 31st May and 1st June.

In attendance to the press conference was ITU President Marisol Casado; Pontevedra’s mayor, Miguel Fernández Anxo Lords; General Secretary for Sport, José Ramón Lete Lasa; Councillor for Sports, Agustín Fernández; President of the Spanish Federation (FETRI), Jose Hidalgo and the President of the Galician Federation, Paco Villanueva.

Casado, thanked the mayor of Pontevedra for the “generosity that the city of Pontevedra always demonstrates to our sport” and noted the great moment that Spanish triathlon is enduring “both in terms of sporting results, as technical, organizational and managerial”.

Meanwhile, the mayor of Pontevedra referred to the economic impact these events have on the city and its neighboring municipalities: “All hotels in Pontevedra are full, as well as in the towns of Poyo and Sanxenxo. It is also quality tourism, with an average stay of five days, especially those who come from far away”.

He also highlighted the work of all those involved in the event, responsible for making it possible: “Workers of the IMD with the councilman at the helm, all municipal services as local police, civil defense, volunteers… Thanks to all of them this championship will have a successful organization”.

Miguel Fernández Lores Anxo ended his intervention by encouraging citizens to participate in the next World Duathlon Championships, saying, “Come watch the athletes during the races, and actively participating in side events like the farewell party and the Panorama orchestra”.

For his part, José Ramón Lete expressed confidence that “it will be the best World Championship ever held ” and referred to the spectacular moment of triathlon.

“In the Galician Sports Tecnficacion Center we have 23 athletes, eight in the tecnical group and another 15 in the brand new High Performance group, which are athletes like Fernando Alarza or Antonio Serrat”.

The president of the Spanish Triathlon Federation, José Hidalgo, emphasized the great success of the Spanish triathlon (referring to recent successes like those obtained last week in Yokohama) and recalled that “when we began to take the first steps in this project we set ourselves several goals: To achieve a record turnout, which has already been reached, and to make this is the World Championship for the athletes and we believe it will be so, due to all the detail that Pontevedra has brought in and that have not been seen anywhere else. So I am confident that this will be the best Duathlon World Championship event to be held so far”.

Meanwhile the Councillor for Sports of Pontevedra, reviewed the data surrounding this World Championship: “More than 1,400 athletes, 500 volunteers, the deployment of the Local Police, Civil Protection ... They are all necessary for this complex organization and take an important part in assuring it runs smoothly. We started several years ago with the European Cups, European Championships, Spanish Championships, and now the World Championship… I believe we can say that Pontevedra is amongst those European cities organizing high level events”.

Lastly, the president of the Galician Federation of Triathlon, Paco Villanueva, referred to the importance that these events have for the sport: “We use these Championships to continue to draw high-level athletes”.

So far this year the Federation has already met its objectives: “Increasing the number of licenses and qualifying athletes for the Olympic Youth Games to be held in August in China”.

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31 - 01 Jun, 2014 • event page • all results

Results: Elite Men
1.	Benoit Nicolas	FRA	01:50:18
2.	Etienne Diemunsch	FRA	01:50:39
3.	Emilio Antonio Martin Romero	ESP	01:50:57
4.	Philip Wylie	GBR	01:51:05
5.	Alexis Rodriguez	ESP	01:51:41

Results: Elite Women
1.	Sandra Levenez	FRA	02:04:07
2.	Gillian Backhouse	AUS	02:05:26
3.	Sabrina Monmarteau	FRA	02:05:42
4.	Franziska Scheffler	GER	02:06:13
5.	Petra Fasungova	SVK	02:06:33

Results: Junior Men
1.	Jacob Birtwhistle	AUS	00:54:15
2.	Antonio Serrat Seoane	ESP	00:54:32
3.	Gustav Iden	NOR	00:54:36
4.	Max Biewer	LUX	00:54:53
5.	Roberto Sanchez Mantecon	ESP	00:55:20

Results: Junior Women
13.	Jessica Alcock	RSA	01:11:23
5.	Madalena Amaral Almeida	POR	01:05:58
12.	Jodie Berry	RSA	01:07:34
11.	Kate Curran	GBR	01:06:51
DNF.	Carla Bertos	ESP	DNF

Results: U23 Men
1.	David Castro Fajardo	ESP	01:53:06
2.	Fabian Villanueva Moehl	MEX	01:53:40
3.	Alberto Della Pasqua	ITA	01:53:44
4.	Jose Luis Cordova	MEX	01:53:50
5.	João Francisco Ferreira	POR	01:54:06

Results: U23 Women
1.	Gillian Backhouse	AUS	02:05:26
2.	Miriam Casillas García	ESP	02:06:50
3.	Georgina Schwiening	GBR	02:07:22
4.	Giorgia Priarone	ITA	02:08:35
5.	Joselyn Daniely Brea Abreu	TRI	02:08:54

Results: 16-19 Female AG Sprint
1.	Georgina Herrera	MEX	01:10:21
2.	Paula Batlle I Plantada	ESP	01:10:29
3.	Cristina Heywood	RSA	01:10:36
4.	Ana Torres	POR	01:10:51
5.	Rebecca Naughton	USA	01:12:23

Results: 16-19 Male AG Sprint
1.	Tom Stead	GBR	00:58:44
2.	Charlie Passfield	GBR	01:02:33
3.	Oscar Justo Villanueva	ESP	01:02:48
4.	Nikolai Racicot	CAN	01:02:55
5.	Diogo Matias	POR	01:03:43

Results: 20-24 Female AG Sprint
1.	Abigail Bagshaw	GBR	01:04:41
2.	Rita Lopes	POR	01:06:11
3.	Marina Martinez Lopez	ESP	01:11:31
4.	Zoe Levin	GBR	01:12:10
5.	Rocio Garcia Becerril	ESP	01:15:10

Results: 20-24 Male AG Sprint
1.	Ben Cockburn	GBR	00:58:45
2.	Pelayo Menendez Fernandez	ESP	00:58:57
3.	Rubén Velazquez Casto	ESP	00:59:09
4.	Alvaro Navalpotro Rodriguez	ESP	01:00:33
5.	Keith Jackson	USA	01:01:09