Fernando Alarza

0 Fernando Alarza
in Madrid, May 2017
Personal information
Date of birth	23rd March 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Talavera de la Reina , Spain
size	178 cm
Weight	63 kg
societies
	EC Sartrouville
Current	EJOT Team TV Buschhütten
successes
2010	World Champion Triathlon Juniors
2012, 2013	2 × Vice-World Champion Triathlon U23
2012, 2016	2 × national champion triathlon short distance
2016	3rd place world championship triathlon short distance
2018	Vice European champion triathlon short distance
2018	Winner Ironman 70.3
status
active

Fernando Alarza (born March 23, 1991 in Talavera de la Reina ) is a Spanish triathlete . He is junior world champion triathlon (2010), national champion short distance triathlon (2016), third in the 2016 world championship and vice-European champion (2018).

Career

Fernando Alarza came to triathlon as a 16-year-old.
In September 2010 he was triathlon world champion in Budapest with the juniors. In 2012 and again in 2013 he was U23 vice world champion.

2016 Summer Olympics

Fernando Alarza competed for Spain at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on August 20 and finished in 18th place.

State champion triathlon short distance 2016

In September 2016, the then 25-year-old became the elite state champion of the Olympic distance in Banyoles. In the last race of the 2016 World Championship racing series, he finished third in Mexico, taking third place in the annual ranking.

After the ninth and final race of the 2017 world championship racing series, he finished fifth in October as the third-best Spaniard.

In the third race of the 2018 World Championship series, Alarza finished third in Japan on May 12 and finished sixth in the 2018 ITU Point List. In August, the then 27-year-old was runner-up in the European championship on the Olympic short distance in Glasgow.

Alarza finished the 2019 World Championship racing series as the third-best Spanish athlete behind Mario Mola (2nd) and Javier Gómez Noya (3rd) in fourth place.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Commons : Fernando Alarza  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official homepage of Fernando Alarza
• Fernando Alarza's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on June 10, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ITU Point List | Elite women
2. ↑ Lindemann storms onto the podium in Hamburg (July 15, 2017)
3. ↑ Fernando Alarza defeats Jonathan Brownlee (April 24, 2016)