The 2022 Multisports World
Championships leave the forests of Targu Mures and relocate to the Transylvania
Motor Ring, where this year’s Duathlon World Champions will be crowned on
Friday afternoon.
The course presents an exciting
challenge for the athletes, built for speed and ready to receive the world’s
best run-bike-runners over the 10km – 37.5km – 5km race. Finished in 2018, the
3.7km motor circuit will be doubled in length with the up-and-back bike course
offering some fast straights, long climbs and tight turns over five laps, two
loops of the draining 2.5km run course wrapping up the action in front of the
grandstands.
You can watch all the action as it
happens over on TriathlonLive.tv.
France’s Nathan Guerbeur will be
looking to defend the title he won in Aviles last year, where his bike skills
proved the difference as he held off the challenge of compatriot Maxime Hueber
Moosbrugger to win gold. Both will want to continue the French team’s dominance
of the Championships so far, the 2019 World Champion and 2021 European Champion
Benjamin Choquert also surely among the favourites to podium for les bleus with
his explosive run.
Hoping to crash the party will be the
Belgians Arnaud Dely, Vincent Bierinckx and Angelo Vandecasteele, third, fourth
and fifth respectively in that Aviles race last November and all undoubtedly
capable of a place on the podium on Friday afternoon.
Outside of Europe, South America is
well represented with Uruguay’s Franco Forestier and Brazilian Francisco Viana
hoping to make an impact if they are able to put themselves in striking
distance off the fast and flat bike segment.
Fourth back in 2019, Liam Lloyd leads
Great Britain’s medal hopes along with Philip Wylie, and the crowds will no
doubt be cheering on Romania’s Alexandru Ion, who received such a roar as he
emerged in the lead halfway through the Cross Triathlon swim segment on
Wednesday.
In the men’s U23 race, Belgian Stef
Corthouts looks to defend his title from Aviles six months ago.
The women’s elite race sees Joselyn
Brea Abreu back on the start line to defend her 2021 world title. The
Venezuelan track star just managed to hold off the challenge of Japan’s Ai Ueda
in Aviles having lost ground to her on the bike, and the pair will renew their
rivalry on the motor ring on Friday afternoon. Joselyn’s sister and the 2019
U23 World Champion Edymar Brea Abreu also starts in what could be a proud day
for Venezuela.
Austria’s 2018 World Duathlon
Champion in Fyn, Sandrina Illes will be chasing redemption after disappointment
in 2021, France’s Marion Legrand, third in that race, was also European silver
medallist here in Targu Mures last year and could be a major challenger for a
first world title.
Previously a regular on the World
Triathlon Cup circuit, Italy’s hugely experienced former national duathlon
champion Giorgia Priarone will be packing plenty of podium potential once
again, and after finishing just off the medals in Wenzhou in 2019, Singapore’s
Man Yun Yong could make an impact.
Great Britain’s Nicole Allan,
European Age Group champion here in 2019, will be keen to test herself against
the best on this exciting course, while Hungarian hopes in the U23 race include
Tunde Bukovszki and Borbala Sarcia.
For the full start lists, click here.
https://triathlon.org/events/event/2022_world_triathlon_duathlon_championships_targu_mures?mc_cid=a4f406985c&mc_eid=6139649918
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