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gUaTaPE –
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season Wraps in coLomBia
With Wins to murua, coLucci
Spain's Ainhoa Murua won her first ever ITU World
Cup gold in Guatapé after heavy rain gave way to
clear skies to create the perfect racing conditions
in Colombia. Despite having raced as an elite for 12
years, during which Murua has competed in three
Olympic Games, she had yet to collect a World Cup
win until taming the tough Guatape course.
Slovenia's Mateja Simic crossed over after Murua,
while French athlete Charlotte Morel earned
bronze, making her first World Cup podium. After
a drizzly race for the women, the rain stopped for
the men's race, giving way first to cool and cloudy
conditions then warming considerably during the
bike leg. But the weather conditions didn't seem to
faze Brazil's Reinaldo Colucci as he clutched his first
World Cup title in three years. Colombia's Carlos
Javier Quinchara Forero won silver on home turf
and France's Etienne Diemunsch won bronze,
both continuing their previous form in Guatape –
Diemunsch won the inaugural event in 2011.
