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Spanish cyclists Alejandro Montalvo and Alba Riera, world trial champions

MADRID, 21 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Spanish cycling team has achieved five medals this Saturday on the final day of the World Trial Championship, thanks to the triplet signed by Alejandro Montalvo, Borja Conejos and Eloi Palau in the elite 20″ and the double achieved in the women’s category by Alba Riera and Vera Baron.

Under the shelter of the Urban Cycling World Championship, held this week in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), the elite finals of the Trial World Championship were held on Saturday. It all started with the fight for the medals among women, with Riera and Barón starting as favorites along with the German Nina Reichenbach, defending champion.

The fight to win between the three of them was exciting throughout the final, with multiple alternatives in the lead. Barón commanded in the first two races, but in the third and fourth Reichenbach managed to turn it around and take first position.

In the decisive last round, the German scored a zero, a circumstance that Riera and Barón took advantage of to take the lead and compete between them for the gold. Finally, success went to Riera with 210 points, proclaiming herself world champion at 16 years old. Meanwhile, Barón took silver for the third consecutive year with 200 points; Meanwhile, Reichenbach finished in third place with 180 points.

In the men’s 20″ elite, Montalvo, Conejos and Palau once again demonstrated that they are the dominators of international trials. They took the three steps of the podium in a World Championship for the third time in their career. Montalvo, defending champion, was intractable from start to finish. end to win clearly with 270 points and add their second consecutive title.

The others competed far from that level and the battle focused on second and third place between Conejos, Palau and the Austrian Thomas Pechhacker, who nailed their harvest at the end of the test with 200 points. The tiebreaker criteria gave silver to Conejos and bronze to Palau to complete a new triplet for the Spanish team.

In elite 26″, Spain touched the medals with Julen Sáenz de Ormijana, Daniel Barón and Martí Vayreda finishing fourth (190 pts.), fifth (190 pts.) and sixth (160 pts.), respectively. The British Jack Carthy, favorite In this modality, he obtained his seventh world champion title with 270 points; his compatriots Charlie Rolls (250 pts.) and Oliver Weightman; (230 pts.) The silver and bronze were hung in that order.

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