Léo Bergère became European triathlon champion on Saturday in Munich, ahead of Pierre Le Corre and Dorian Coninx.
Le Monde with AFP
French Léo Bergère European triathlon champion, Saturday August 13 in Munich. He has ahead of two other French people, Pierre Le Corre and Dorian Coninx. This hat -trick is historic for French triathlon.
After taking the lead in a group of twelve bikes, the tricolor trio caused the selection from the first kilometers of running. Léo Bergère flew to two laps from the arrival in a coast of the very rough course.
Léo Bergère, 26, was a favorite given its regularity on the current year: four podiums and a fourth place in five WTCS races (World Triathlon Championship Series), the world series, competitions taken into account For the award of the title of world triathlon champion. He occupies second place in the ranking currently.
The Isérois had missed the Tokyo Olympic Games (21st) as the rest of the French team.
Pierre le Corre was holding the title, Dorian Coninx, bronze medalist with the mixed relay in Tokyo. The double world champion Vincent Luis had chosen to preserve himself for the end of the season after a tachycardia in the race in May
With this title, Léo Bergère asserts himself as one of the best triathletes in the world in this Olympic format (1,500 m swimming, 40 km of bicycle and 10 km of running) with the New Zealand Hayden Wilde, whom he tastes in the WTCS ranking, and the British Alex Yee, absent after his victory over Wilde at the Commonwealth Games.
There are two rounds in mid-October then in early November before the grand final in Abu Dhabi where Bergère will be in the race to win the world title.