Spain’s Sergio Baxter hangs bronze at the World Cup in Tongyeong

MADRID, 30 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Spanish triathlete Sergio Baxter Cabrera won this Saturday the bronze medal in the World Cup event held in Tongyeong (South Korea), in which the Moroccan Jawad Abdelmoula won and in which the Italian Alessio Crociani won has hung the silver.

In this way, the 21-year-old from Murcia, who a couple of years ago headed to Leeds to study and train with the Brownlee brothers, thus gets his first medal at a World Cup event.

“I came to this race after some hesitation, especially after last weekend at Haeundae. I really wanted to finish my season with a strong race. I’m in heaven with this podium, it’s my first in a World Cup and I It has given confidence for the next season and the next Olympic cycle, “said Totana.

During the test, in which 48 triathletes participated, Crociani and the Australian Max Stapley were the first to get out of the water, but in the cycling section a group of about twenty runners was soon formed that was reduced by half after the equator of the distance on the bike.

Finally, Abdelmoula launched his attack at the beginning of the foot race to outrun all his opponents to win in his fifth world race in the discipline of triathlon.