A veryfirst edition of the World Triathlon Cup Tangier will take location this weekend, as the city in the North of Morocco hosts the veryfirst world cup on African soil giventhat the World Triathlon Cup Cape Town in2019
With important points, reward cash and some winterseason sun on deal, a number of prominent names haveactually made the journey over the Mediterranean listbelow the WTCS Finals in Pontevedra, with a couple of other surprises on the start list.
Start time and how to follow live
The elite females will race veryfirst in Tangier, with the weapon set to go off at 11: 00 regional time on Sunday October 1. This corresponds to 11: 00 UK time, 12: 00 CET time and 06: 00 on the East Coast (03: 00 PST).
For the males, racing will kick off at 13: 30 regional time on Sunday, which is 13: 30 UK time, 14: 30 CET time and 08: 30 on the East Coast (05: 30 PST).
All the action will be offered to watch live through Triathlonlive.tv
Elite Women racing in Tangier
In the ladies’s race, German duo Lisa Tertsch and Marlene Gomez-Goggel are the top-ranked entrants, with Tertsch most justrecently endingup her WTCS project with a fine fourth-place surface in Pontevedra to safeandsecure certification to the Olympic group for Paris.
Gomez-Goggel, who didn’t have her finest day in Pontevedra, is coming into the race of the back of 2 successive World Triathlon Cup podiums in September, where she completed 3rd in both Valencia and Karlovy Vary.
Elsewhere on the start list, Dutch star Rachel Klamer is mostlikely to position a danger, particularly thinkingabout her run kind looks to be back at its finest. In Pontevedra, the World #23 made an outstanding charge over the 10km run to choice up 5th and was likewise second 2 weeks earlier at the World Triathlon Cup Karlovy Vary
Zsanett Kuttor-Bragmayer is one of the finest swim-bikers in the videogame and the Hungarian will hope to put her mark on the race early on. Another professionalathlete racing with some major bike pedigree is Solveig Lovseth, with the Norwegian making the journey over after a hard last 6 weeks of racing.
Finally, Great Britain’s Vicky Holland will make her return to a start line after givingbirth. The Rio Olympic bronze medalist, who likewise won the world champion title in 2018, has a strong field to test herself versus in Morocco.