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Linsey Corbin WINS Pucon 70.3/Duathlon!!! Corbin’s winning ways continue into 2011! Congratulations @linseycorbin
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Top 3 Men at Pucon Duathlon Daniel Fontana, ReinaldoColucci & OscarGalíndez
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Oscar Galíndez is still racing? Or this a different Oscar than from 20 years ago?
Same Oscar, some career he has had. I remember in 92 i think it was, and i was on an Argentina tour of 4 races. I was leading one of them, and here comes this kid on the bike up to me, and then on the run just takes off. It was sweltering as i remember, and he looked like it was a nice 60 degree day. that is when i first met Oscar, guess he had been around a couple years down there, but hadn’t made the international scene as of then. He was a good kid, lost touch with him personally, but followed his career ever since. You could say he is the Kenny Glah of South America…
Fontana wins 70.3 Pucon, points toward World Championships
Pucón, CHILE (January 16, 2011) Amidst a cold, windy rain storm that caused race directors to change Ironman 70.3 Agrosuper Pucon triathlon to a duathlon, 2009 Ironman 70.3 world championships runner-up and 2005 Pucon champion Daniel Fontana (ITA) won the event in 3:52:59 with a more than three-minute margin ahead of last year’s winner, Reinaldo Colucci.
“I won’t say the race day was fun, not with that cold wind and rain. But, it’s always fun to race against great competition,” Fontana said. “More important, though, I set my mind and body for 2011 pointing to the world championships.”
Directors changed the half-ironman race (1.2 km swim/90 km bike/21.1 km run) to a duathlon format with a 5 km run instead of the swim but that made the day not much less treacherous.
Fontana, born and raised in Argentina and training there each year during the holiday season, is a two-time Olympic triathlete, competing in Athens and Beijing. In 2009, he began to focus on middle- and long-distance events, where he has found passion and success, including seventh place at the recent 2010 Ironman 70.3 world championship in 3:47:15, champion at the 2010 Mergozzo International Triathlon in 3:42:58, second at Pucon in 2009, and third at the 2010 Ironman South Africa, in 8:33:48 over the 226 kilometers.
Ironman 70.3 Pucon, January 16, 2011
1.- Daniel Fontana Argentina 3:52:59
2.- Reinaldo Colucci Brasil 3:56:24
3.- Oscar Galíndez Argentina 3:57:17
Imagine paying all that money to travel to Chile, only to do a duathlon in some freezing conditions.