The athlete from Alicante Andreu Blanes will fight for the gold medal at the Trail World Championshipwhich will take place from this Thursday to Sunday in the mountains of Chiang Mai (Thailand), after abandoning the outdoor track season due to covid, but also after his recent victory in Sierre Zinal.
Blanes will compete in the Classic Up & Down (10.7 km where they climb to the top at 771 meters of altitude and return again).
“I clearly see myself with options, I prepared well”Blanes explained in statements to the Athletics Federation of the Valencian Community where he pointed out that he had the same feeling of uncertainty in the days before the Sierre Zinal, a test in which he finished second, but a few weeks later the Kenyan took win, Mark Kangogo, for doping.
Blanes spent three weeks preparing this test in a mountain cabin in Peguerinos (Ávila) with Antonio Martínez, who will seek the world contest to be close to the podium in the Trail Running modality, 38 kilometers with 2,425 meters of positive elevation gain and climb up to 1,344 meters high.
Martínez, who came with the confidence of after the best season of his life with a second place in the OCC of the Ultra Trail Mont Blanc unexpectedly, he faces his third World Cup and wants to improve on the results of the previous two: eighth place in Portugal and seventh in Argentina, where he was proclaimed team champion.
The two riders from Onil are part of a group of five Valencians, including Júlia Font, Guillermo Albert and Ricardo Cherta, that make up a Spanish team that has 33 athletes (18 men and 17 women).
Martínez will share the test with Cherta and Font, the best specialist in the Valencian Community, who, in his case, prepared the competition in the Sierra de Orihuela.
The athlete from Castellón, current champion of Spain, came to the World Cup with great confidence. “I feel better than ever. The preparation was excellent and I got to the appointment without being able to blame myself for anything. The truth is that I am very excited and very motivated. In Orihuela, besides, it is very hot and humid and that will help me in Thailand”, he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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