Leo Bergere and Laura Madsen have actually simply taped excellent success at Ironman 70.3 Valencia. The very first edition of the race therefore had good and specifically strong winners.
In the guys’s race it was a so-called ‘one-man program’ in which Bergere brought in all the attention. Throughout the swim he remained in a prominent group of 10 guys, however in the very first couple of kilometers of the bike leg he escaped everybody and after that he never ever saw anybody once again up until the surface. Behind Bergere there was a fantastic fight for the silver and bronze, however the Frenchman didn’t saw anything of that.
When Bergere went back to T2 to begin his half marathon, the fight for gold was currently chosen and he was nearly 5 minutes ahead of a chasing group of 5 males: Joshua Lewis, Jan Stratmann, Jannik Schaufler, Sven Thalmann and Johannes Vogel. Those 21 kilometers of running for that reason ended up being unexciting regarding who was going to win the race: that was Bergere in a time of 3:40:24. Behind him there was a continuous modification in positions, however in the end it was the German Stratmann who ended up second in 3:43:25. This needed a last sprint, as his compatriot Schaufler ended up third in 3:43:26.
More enjoyment in the ladies’s race
There was more enjoyment in the females’s race. After the swim, there was a prominent group of 4 ladies, led by Caroline Pohle. She was instantly followed by Lena Meissner, Sara Perez Sala and Luisa Logna Prat, while leading preferred Laura Philipp came out of the water in sixteenth location, 2:40 minutes behind. None of these females would control the bike however, as Denmark’s Laura Madsen showed to be the very best rider of the day.
Madsen had actually prior to come out of the water in 6th location, tracking by 47 seconds. On the bike, Madsen rode rapidly to the front, as she frequently does, and offered the other females no possibility to capture up either. Gradually however definitely her lead grew larger and larger, lastly hanging her bike back in T2 with a margin of 1:24 minute on Pohle and 1:54 minute on Meissner. The next females behind followed at 5 minutes or more.
Throughout the very first kilometers of the half marathon, it appeared like Madsen would split and both Pohle and Meissner came better. Meissner in turn passed Pohle and after 10 kilometers of running– midway through, that is– she was just sixteen seconds behind the Danish leader. Pohle stuck with Meissner for the time being and followed simply a 2nd later on, so the leading 3 females were running within twenty seconds of each other at this moment of the race.
In the kilometers that followed, nevertheless, it depended on Madsen who handled to restore herself and extend her lead significantly once again. As an outcome, she showed strong enough to run to triumph. In a time of 4:09:58, the Danish professional athlete ultimately thrived,