Athletes to hit the tracks for the Cross Triathlon World Championships

by Courtney Akrigg on 29 Apr, 2019 10:49 • Español

Cross triathlon is an off-road triathlon discipline that typically features a 1km swim, 20-30km mountain bike and 6-10km off-road run. After four years of Continental Championships, the International Triathlon Union (ITU) held its first Cross Triathlon World Championship in April 2011 in Extremadura, Spain, at the ‘Ring’ complex. Since then, world champions have included Bermuda’s Flora Duffy and Mexico’s Francisco Serrano, who won the title at the opening World Multisport Championships event in Penticton, Canada in 2017.
2018, Ruben Ruzafa of Spain and Britain’s Lesley Paterson were crowned World Champions in Denmark.

2019 ITU Cross Triathlon World Championships will be staged in Pontevedra, Spain. Streaming live on the new-look TriathlonLIVE platform.
Junior race start 13.30 (local time)
Paratriathlon race start 13.40 (local time)
Elite | U23 race start 15.30 (local time)
Age-group race start 15:45 (local time)

Spain’s Ruben Ruzafa headlines the elite men’s field:
“The water is going to be so cool so we might get out of the water a little blocked. So on the bike we are all going to suffer to maintain a good speed and rhythm because is too flat and with 1km and a half of cross is going to be so fast. That is going to help the people that comes from ITU racing, that are faster. So it is going to be a race that is not going to be solved until the last moment.”

Australia’s Leela Hancox is a top contender in the elite women’s field:
“The key part for this race is the bike, my most favourite leg. I think the swim will be a little fresh coming from Australia. The bike course is beautiful, it’s got some technical parts and some climbing but nothing too crazy. It will be a fast bike. That will be my strongest leg and I plan to do well in that. If I can do well in that and hold everyone off in the run, I should be able to finish in a good position.”

View the course maps online.

Review the elite men’s start list

Review the elite women’s start list

Review all category start lists

Photo credit: Wagner Araujo

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Related Event: 2019 Pontevedra ITU Cross Triathlon World Championships

30 Apr, 2019 • event page • all results

Results: Elite Men
1.	Arthur Forissier	FRA	01:48:21
2.	Ruben Ruzafa	ESP	01:48:54
3.	Lukas Kocar	CZE	01:49:05
4.	Josiah Middaugh	USA	01:49:24
5.	Brice Daubord	FRA	01:50:52

Results: Elite Women
1.	Eleonora Peroncini	ITA	02:10:17
2.	Jacqueline Slack	GBR	02:11:20
3.	Nicole Walters	GBR	02:12:14
4.	Loanne Duvoisin	SUI	02:12:30
5.	Lesley Paterson	GBR	02:13:38

Results: U23 Men
1.	Maxim Chane	FRA	01:55:58
2.	Ruan Van Zyl	RSA	01:56:35
3.	Victor Goené	NED	01:56:52
4.	Mathurin Boutte	FRA	01:57:33
5.	Lucas Van Deynze	BEL	01:57:57

Results: U23 Women
1.	Loanne Duvoisin	SUI	02:12:30
2.	Sofiya Pryyma	UKR	02:13:54
3.	Marta Menditto	ITA	02:15:12
4.	Matilde Bolzan	ITA	02:15:46
5.	Hayley Preen	RSA	02:17:59

Results: Junior Men
1.	Oscar Gladney Rundqvist	DEN	00:58:05
2.	Jose Ignacio Galvez Ponce	ESP	00:58:35
3.	Manuel Menéndez Valledor	ESP	00:58:55
4.	Ander Ganzabal Bilbao	ESP	00:59:26
5.	Timo Spitzhorn	GER	01:00:04

Results: Junior Women
1.	Willemijn Fuite	NED	01:12:24
2.	Zoe Davison	AUS	01:13:25
3.	Beatriz Medrano Serrano	ESP	01:15:00
4.	Jasmine Eden Gray	AUS	01:16:15
5.	Daria Berezhna	UKR	01:19:32

Results: PTS2 Men
1.	Gianluca Valori	ITA	01:29:22
2.	Ricardo Marin Arcis	ESP	01:56:48

Results: PTS3 Men
1.	Kini Carrasco	ESP	01:59:53

Results: PTS4 Men
1.	Martin Falch	AUT	01:17:34
2.	Gianfilippo Mirabile	ITA	01:19:37
3.	Jose Antonio Abril	ESP	01:21:35
4.	Francisco Jose Lopez Salar	ESP	01:23:54
5.	Jorge Orejon Miguel	ESP	01:32:16