The triathlon day of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games left many other finals with a Spanish presence, beyond Daniel Molina’s gold in PTS2, with Diego Lardón seventh. Among them the medals were contested, although some were very close.
After a new Seine water quality control the night before served to give the competition the go-ahead, Paris finally hosted this Monday, a day behind schedule, the triathlon competitions of its Paralympic Games. With the finish line in a magnificent setting on the Alexander III Bridge, over the Seine River and with the Eiffel Tower as the main spectator, a total of eleven classes competed in their competition in a morning session full of finals .
Eva Moral opened the day in the PTWC category, where she was fourth, with a bit of a bitter taste at the beginning but with great courage after becoming a mother. In the match, the Spaniard did not reach the final part of the match for the bronze medal. He completed a long swimming section (750 meters), where he came out in second position, but suffered in the first part of the handbike, with the Australian Lauren Parker always imperially pulling from the first place. He dropped to sixth place, but started to come back in the second half of this segment.
Although she was in fourth, she finally made it to fifth in the 5-kilometer run, but a penalty to Mexican Brenda Osnaya, who was chasing her, dropped her back to fourth place. She tried to fight to pass Canadian Leanne Taylor (1:12:11), but was seven seconds away from the medals (1:12.18) with Parker’s victory (1:06.23) ahead of American Kendall Gretsch (1 :07.46). ).
Other classes do not have a medal option
More Spaniards competed in Paris this Sunday, but there was no chance to fight for a medal. Lionel Morales finished sixth in the PTS2 category, where he started fourth but then lost. In 1:10:21, he was unable to fight for the podium consisting of the Frenchman Jules Ribstein (1:05:47) and the Americans Mohamed Lahna (1:07:18) and Mark Barr (1: 07:33). ).
Rakel Mateo was tenth in the PTS2 category. In it he suffered in the cycling part, where he lost several positions that he never regained. She clocked a time of 1:40:16 in a trial won by American Hailey Danz with 1:14:31. Silver went to Italian Veronica Yoko Plebani (1:15:37) and bronze went to American Allysa Seely (1:16:37).
Source: La Verdad
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