The Colombian triathlete Carolina Velásquez beat the American Erika Ackerlund in a very tight end.
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The Antioquia triathlete María Carolina Velásquez won this Sunday at the Huatulco World Cup stop, Mexico, a 750 -meter swimming test, 20 kilometers of cycling and five kilometers of athletics.
The Colombian, won the final shipment, with an hour and eight seconds on the American Erika Ackerlund. The podium was completed by Ecuadorian Elizabeth Bravo.
Two other Colombians were among the first 30 of the competition, held in the Bay of Santa Cruz: Diana Castillo was in box 26 (1:05:15) and Valentina Álvarez in 29 (1:06:55).
María Carolina Velásquez occupies the 50th position in the worldwide specialty and this year she had achieved the sixth position in the Championship of the Americas, in Lake Calima, where she was also fourth with the mixed relay team. He finished sixteenth in the World Triathlon series in Yokohama, Japan.
Los Angeles 2028 is still his dream
In February, starting her season, the one born in Marinilla won the silver medal at the Triathlon Cup of Havana, Cuba. It was a brilliant result that later endorsed, at the beginning of April, with the gold medal at the Americas & South America Triathlon Championships, which took place in Colina, near Santiago, Chile.
In 2024 he ended in box 37 of the Triathlon of the Olympic Games in Paris and is now focused on arriving in his best way to Los Angeles 2028. “It would be exciting to return to some Olympic, what I lived in Paris was one of the best moments of my life,” he said recently to El Espectador.
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