For the second stop of the 2018 season, the World Paratriathlon Series will travel to the iconic town of Iseo, in northern Italy, Paratriathletes will show their skills with a 750m swim, one lap, in the Lake of Iseo, one of the most astonishing small lakes of the world to then mount on their bikes for three laps of 7km each on a circuit that is almost completely flat, but offers a breathtaking view over the lake and a peculiar passage in the old city center of Iseo. For the last segment, athletes will do four laps 1,2km each in the center of the city, with an astonishing finish line located right in the center of the main square.
With the spectacular set up for athletes and spectators alike, the races will bring to the heart of the Old Continent the best paratriathlon action.
PTWC
Iseo will be as close to a World Championships as a race could be, with all the recent winners of races in this category taking the start. The Dutch duo, Jetze Plat and Geert Schipper, have great chances of repeating their success in the previous WPS of the year in Yokohama, where they crossed the finish line in first and second. But British rising star Joseph Townsend, winner in the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, will surely try to improve his third place in Yokohama. And eye should be kept also on the most veterans, Bill Chaffey (AUS), Fernando Aranha (BRA) and Giovanni Achenza (ITA), all of them with experience enough to shine in a course that they know really well, as they have all competed in Iseo before.
In the women’s race, eyes will be set on two former wheelchair marathon stars, Jade Jones (GBR) and Wakako Tsuchida (JPN). Both of them have proved that their swimming skills are quickly improving, with Jones claiming the first paratriathlon gold medal of the Commonwealth Games and Tsuchida claiming the victory in WPS Yokohama. Another one to watch will be indeed Lauren Parker (AUS), an athlete who suffered the accident that left her paralysed only one year ago and is improving race by race. On her second race as a paratriathlete, in Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, she claimed bronze, while in the next race, in Yokohama, she finished second. Would it be this one her first time on top of the podium?
PTS2
Some well-known athletes will be competing in Iseo in the PTS2 class, with British Andy Lewis, American Mark Barr and Mohammed Lahna, competing under the ITU flag, assuming their roles as favourites. Spaniard Lionel Morales or French Stephane Bahier could also be…
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