torrevejense cyclist Sandra Alonso This Sunday she will be part of the women’s team to compete in the Road World Championship, a test that will close last week’s event in Scotland, where Glasgow is the home ground.
Contrary to tradition, the elite women’s event will be the closing of the World Cup, not the men’s cup, which took place last Sunday’s victory by Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel, who failed to score a historic trio this Saturday. experiencing a spectacular fall in the mountain bike test.
The women’s road test will cover a 154.1km route starting from Loch Lomond and ending in Scotland’s capital, where cyclists will have to contend for days with a twisty track that shows they can suffocate at their best.
Participating in the mixed relay (11th) and individual time trial (42nd) in this championship, Alonso will be one of the Spanish leader’s aides. blue garcia. “I will try to be as comfortable as possible on the track and then there will be key placement. I am excited and I think I can do well,” said a woman from Alicante before the race.
Sheyla Gutiérrez, Sara Martín and Alba Teruel round out the roster of a team that didn’t start fighting for medals from the sidekicks, hoping to fight the favourites. With the current champion Annemiek Van Vleuten and the recent winner of the Tour de France Demi Vollering, the Dutch team starts off as rivals to beat the rest.
For the woman from Torrevieja, this is her second participation in an absolute World Championship. It failed to finish the road test in Australia last year. Of course, she took eighth place in the junior category in 2016.