Over 500 sign on for Vitoria-Gasteiz Long Distance world titles

by Merryn Sherwood on 31 Jan, 2012 05:10 • Español

More than 500 athletes have already registered for the 2012 Vitoria-Gasteiz ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships, with just six months to go until the event in Spain.

After the first period of registration closed, more than 500 participants had entered from 11 different countries. They included triathletes from Denmark, USA, Canada, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Holland and Portugal. It includes 234 international registrations and over 300 Spanish pre-registered in the different age groups: 264 men, 28 women and five paratriathletes.

Vitoria-Gasteiz is the capital city of the province of Álava and of the autonomous community of the Basque Country in northern Spain, and is the home of two-time Olympian and triathlon legend Eneko Llanos. It hosted the European Long Distance Championships in 2010. The course starts with a one-lap 4km swim in lake Ullibarri-Gamboa, before a two-lap 120km bike leg that winds through the plains of Alava, with the lake on one side and the Elguea mountain range on the other. The four-lap 30km run course then starts and finishes in the medieval district of Vitoria-Gasteiz.

The second registration period will be open until May 29, with fees at 125 EUR for Spanish entrants and 150 EUR for entrants from other countries. The price difference is due to the 25 EUR subsidy the Spanish Triathlon Federation (FETRI) offers to each Spanish competitor. For late entries from May 30 onwards, the registration fee will rise to 175 EUR.

The final participants list will be published on May 29, but forecasts point to a total of 1300 athletes in total, so make sure you sign up now to secure your spot. Spain, as the host, has 25 places for each age-group.

All registrations are processed on-line through FETRI, www.triatlon.org. Please proceed to register your athletes through the ITU online entry system and the LOC will invoice each National Federation.

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Related Event: 2012 Vitoria-Gasteiz ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships

29 Jul, 2012 • event page • all results

Results: Elite Women
1.	Caroline Steffen	SUI	06:04:17
2.	Camilla Pedersen	DEN	06:09:23
3.	Jodie Swallow	GBR	06:12:48
4.	Virginia Berasategi Luna	ESP	06:20:36
5.	Maider Gaztañaga Dorronsoro	ESP	06:23:52

Results: Elite Men
1.	Chris McCormack	AUS	05:29:47
2.	Eneko Llanos Burguera	ESP	05:31:39
3.	Dirk Bockel	LUX	05:34:54
4.	Emil Dalgaard	DEN	05:38:39
5.	Martin Krnavek	CZE	05:44:47

Results: 70-74 Male AG
1.	Eli Iwens	BEL	08:34:10
2.	Roger Little	USA	09:07:00
3.	Horst Greb	GER	09:36:47
4.	Warren Hill	NZL	10:15:59
5.	Neal Genda	USA	10:58:14

Results: 65-69 Male AG
1.	Anton Hergouth	AUT	08:47:12
2.	Manuel Jose Cruces Prado	ESP	09:29:16
3.	Serge Nayssens	FRA	10:15:11

Results: 65-69 Female AG
1.	Tiare Lund	NZL	09:00:42
2.	Karla Mckinlay	AUS	09:13:28

Results: 60-64 Male AG
1.	Yves Tabarant	FRA	06:45:13
2.	Robert Allemann	NZL	07:10:41
3.	Francisco Luque Martinez	ESP	07:18:40
4.	Angel Santamaria Cuevas	ESP	07:28:33
5.	Paul Berry	NZL	07:38:47

Results: 60-64 Female AG
1.	Cristina Milton	GBR	08:33:51
2.	Gail M. Burgess	CAN	08:51:46
3.	Senna S. Madsen	DEN	09:06:14
4.	Dorothy Rich	USA	10:08:20

Results: 55-59 Male AG
1.	Pedro Oviedo Montoya	ESP	06:31:00
2.	John Hill	AUS	06:40:14
3.	Russell O'Malley	AUS	06:52:58
4.	Alex Vennevault	FRA	06:53:36
5.	Gerold Müller	GER	06:59:40

Results: 55-59 Female AG
1.	Jan-Maree Brown	NZL	08:43:03
2.	Nicky Deane-Simmons	GBR	08:44:47
3.	Montserrat Clavero Sanchez	ESP	09:08:31
4.	Gayle Minard	USA	09:38:46
5.	Marianne Hergouth	AUT	10:08:09

Results: 50-54 Male AG
1.	Reto Schawalder	SUI	06:19:06
2.	Anthony Frost	CAN	06:21:18
3.	Marc Louis	FRA	06:38:19
4.	Juan Ignacio Dominguez Ruano	ESP	06:42:20
5.	Kyle Welch	USA	06:48:50

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