Melody Ramirez (MEX) was the winner at Veracruz

With more than 2,400 athletes, from 9 year old kids to 70+ years, the 2007 Veracruz Triathlon is the favorite competition of Latin America. In the men’s race there were 28 athletes from Argentina, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, United States, Guatemala, Ireland, Sweden and Mexico, and the winner was Leonardo Chacón (CRC-1:57:06), followed by Francisco Serrano (MEX-1:58:34) and Crisanto Grajales (MEX-1:59:02). In the women’s race the gold medal was for Melody Ramírez (MEX-2:14:01), the silver medal was for Dunia Gómez (2:14:02) and the bronze medal was for Kelly Cook (2:15:56).