Sports | Triathlon Euro: French triathlon led by Leo Berger

MUNICH (Germany) – France’s Leo Berger was crowned the European champion in the triathlon on Saturday in Munich, with the French team winning a hat-trick.

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 win at the highest level after an impressive performance in the past few months.

In the absence of Norwegian Olympic champion Christian Blumenfeldt, Leo Berger confirmed himself this season as one of the best players on the World Circuit (WTCS) as he finished second.

Missed the Tokyo Olympics (21) Like the rest of the French 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.

The defending champion, Pierre Le Curie, was the bronze medalist with a mixed relay in Tokyo. Double world champion Vincent Lewis chose to keep himself for the end of the season after racing tachycardia in May.

With this title, rising star Léo Bergère asserts himself as one of the world’s best triathletes in this Olympic form (1500m swim, 40km bike and 10km run) with New Zealander Hayden Wilde, who trails him in the WTCS standings, and Britain’s Alex Yee, absent. 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.