European Nations Triathlon Championship: French triple, champion Leo Berger
yoThe tricolor platform. The French Leo Berger was crowned, Saturday, the European champion in the triathlon, as the French team achieved the triple. With Pierre Le Curie, second, and Dorian Konincks, third, the Blues snatched the podium after a perfectly elaborate race. After taking the lead in a group of twelve people on bikes, the trio of tricolor raised the selection from the first kilometers of the run. Léo Bergère took off two turns from the end on a hill on a very uneven course.
Behind Pierre Le Curie, listed, Hungarian Schongur Lehmann, who was accompanying the three Blues, lost in the final against Dorian Konincks. The 26-year-old scored his first victory at the highest level after an impressive performance in the past few months. In the absence of Norwegian Olympic champion Christian Blumenfelt, Leo Berger has confirmed himself this season as one of the best players on the World Circuit (WTCS), finishing second.
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patroness, a rising star
Missed the Tokyo Olympics (21e) Like the rest of the France team, Berger was not a member of the bronze medal-winning mixed relay in Japan. With seven podiums in nine WTCS races since then, someone who specialized in cycling in his early days felt a “click,” as he put it.
Defending champion Pierre Le Curie, Dorian Konincks, was the bronze medalist with a mixed relay in Tokyo. Double world champion Vincent Lewis chose to keep himself until the end of the season after racing tachycardia in May. With this title, rising star Leo Berger asserts himself as one of the world’s best triathletes in this Olympic form (1500m swimming, 40km cycling and 10km running) with New Zealander Hayden Wilde, who trails him. In the WTCS standings, Briton Alex Yee missed after defeating Wilde at the Commonwealth Games.
Two rounds left in mid-October and then in early November before the Grand Final in Abu Dhabi, where Berger will be in the race to win the world title.
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