David Valero, fifth in a trial won by Romanian Vlad Dascalu

the Romanian cyclist Vlad Dascalu, who lives in Entrena (La Rioja), won this Sunday the European Games race, which will be held in Krakow (Poland), where the Spanish David Valero, first in the world ranking, is fifth.

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The Spaniard remained throughout the race in a second group of runners, where he also marched several times dascalubut the Romanian attacked earlier and led throughout Valero he had not completed the return and was 11 seconds behind the bronze.

The German Luca Schwarzbauer He set a strong pace at the start of the race, with only a small group of runners following, while the other favorites were close behind.

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The German continued his strong pace for half an hour, where he finished the “choice” of the race, where, by the way, Valero went through his worst moment and then he started to come back.

As race time approaches, dascalu He was already in front next to the Swiss Lars Foster and the italian Luca Braidotwho managed to open a gap of about ten seconds on another group of riders, incl Valero.

Shortly after the race time dascalu He gave a stretch that his teammates could not follow and went straight for victory with a very safe pedaling, without mistakes, but with a force that allowed him to always maintain a clear advantage.

Behind him take care He also hit a “pull” that allowed him to enter second, ahead Braidand just behind the Italian Valero tried to the end to reach fourth place, but fell three seconds behind the German Schwarzbauersomething that can hurt him to keep the first place in world ranking, with Braidot as his main rival.

The Spaniards have also participated in the men’s event David Fieldswho finished 19th (2:29 behind the winner), Pablo Rodríguezat 25 (at 2:57) and Jofre Cullellat 36 (at 4:28).

In addition, this Sunday the women’s mountain bike event was held, with a victory for the Dutch Puck Pieterse and a very cautious result for the Spanish Nuria Bosh and Natalia Fischer, who did not complete the race and finished after one and two laps. , respectively , of the winner.

Male classification:

.1.- Vlad Dascalu (Romania) 1.19:41

.2.- Lars Foster (Switzerland) in 14 seconds

.3.- Luca Braidot (Italy) at 19″

.4.- Luca Schwarzbauer (Germany) at 27″

.5.- David Valero (Spain) at 30″