The triathlon world returns to Cagliari. Saturday May 25th, from the Poetto beach, the Italian stage of the World Triathlon Championship Series on Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling, 10 km running), test valid for the circuit that will award the world title and last appointment to collect points for the qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
towards games
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At the third edition of the Cagliari race, which is part of the top world series, they will be at the start eight blues: Gianluca PozzattiMichele SarzillaNicholas AzzanoAlexei CrocianiAlice BettoVerena SteinhauserWhite Seregni and Ilaria Zane, who with the recent fifth place in the World Cup in Samarkand consolidated the top 30 ranking which would allow Italy to acquire the third women’s Olympic card. Games for Paris they will be closed only after the finish line but, to date, the Italian national team would boast five individual race places (2 men and 3 women) to which is added the pass for the Mixed Relayresults that would equal the numerical record obtained by the Italian triathlon a Tokyo 2020.
the participants
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Big names at the start from the magnificent Poetto beach. In the men’s competition there will be the reigning Olympic champion, the Norwegian Kristian Blummenfelt, and the two Olympic medalists, the British Alex Yee and New Zealander Hayden Wilde. They will return to compete on home soil, but will have to fend off attacks from athletes like the two former Transalpine world champions Bergère (trained by the Italian coach Rastelli) and Luis, the American Pearson, the Australian Willian and the young Brazilian Hidalgo.
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SUPER STAR
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Big names also among the women, with the Olympic champion from Bermuda Flora Duffy at the start together with the reigning world champion Beth Potter and to her British compatriots, always fearsome, as Taylor-Brown, Waught, Coldwell. Then the Americans compete Knibb (who will also compete in cycling in Paris), Zaferes, Spivey, Rappaport and Kasper, the French Periault, Lombardi and Beaugrand and the always competitive Lindemann (Ger), Godoy Contreras (Spa) and Lopes (Bra).
