Chelsea Sonoro won the first professional World Cup medal in the Sarasota-Bradenton World Cup World Cup
Florida SARASOTA - Chelsea Sodaro (Poway, Calif.) Won her first career World Cup medal on Saturday and won a silver medal at the three World Cups of the Sarasota-Bradenton International Triathlon in Nathan Benderson Park The The athletes from 16 countries have marked the first ITU World Cup since 2009 to the United States.
The event is also the American Triathlon Championship, and three US players won the national championship podium.
Sonoro is one of the strongest runners in the ITU World Cup circuit race, finishing the first 5k run in the first 10 seconds ahead. She and a group of 10 women's team participated in the bike race, including the Japanese legend Juri Ide, the ITU World Triathlon bronze medalist Katie Zafir (Hampstead, Md.), The US national team members Taylor · Spivie (Leidong Beach, California) and Chelsea Burns (Seattle, Washington) and several other top athletes.
At the end of the 36.6k bike, the 10-man team was still together and left the medal position decided in the game. Ide and Sodaro ran four first laps of 2.5k, but Ide was opened when Sodaro warm up. When they hit the bell, Ide was in a three-year-old Sodaro team, the Maaike Caelers in the Netherlands and Julia Hauser in Austria for about a minute.
Italy team in 2 hours 4 minutes 21 seconds first through the lines, won the gold medal champion position. While the Sonora team to 2:05:18 in the silver position. Hauser won the third bronze medal at 2:05:31.
Silver marks Sodaro's first professional World Cup podium, and her previous performance was nine games of the Carlovelga Vary and the Vienna International Union Triathlon World Cup.
Sodaro said she did have confidence to enter, but on the other hand, the wrestler was a very challenging event. If you want to run 15k, in this heat ride about 40K bike, then for everyone, this is a difficult task. "In most cases, Sodaro is just running, coach Paul Susa makes plans for the game of Sodaro, and I know I will finish the calculation at the end, so I just try to hang there and run it as efficiently as possible."
Caelers eventually came in fourth place (2:05:49), followed by Spivey and Burns after the fifth (2:09:46) and sixth (2:10:09), respectively. As the second and third place of the Americans, Spivey and Burns also won the silver and bronze medals on the American Triathlon Elite National Team podium.
The men's FIFA World Cup will be questioned at 2:30 pm on Sunday at the same location and on the same course. ET The first man on the list was Henri Schoeman of South Africa, the first in Crisanto Grajales of Mexico, second in the United States (Geneva, Illinois State) Kevin McDowell on the 3rd. Tomorrow's game will also serve as the men's triathlon championship.
The World Cup is part of the Sarasota-Bradenton Triathlon competition, which is held at Nelson Benderson Park for a weekend, including peer sports, women's college students and age groups. An age group to open the sprint game, covering 2.5k run, 18k bike and 5k run tomorrow morning at 7:10 am EDT World Cup World Cup covers 2.5k run, 18.3k bike and 5k run, set to 10 o'clock in the morning