Pablo Dapena González

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Pablo Dapena in April 2018
Pablo Dapena in April 2018
Personal information
Date of birth 19th January 1988 (age 32)
place of birth Pontevedra , Spain
size 168 cm
Weight 65 kg
societies
Since 2019 BMC Vifit Pro Triathlon Team
successes
2014, 2017 2 × national runner-up triathlon short distance
2017 Spanish champion long distance triathlon
2018 ITU world champion triathlon long distance
2018 ETU Vice European Champion Triathlon Long Distance
2019 ITU Vice-World Champion Triathlon Long Distance
status
active

Pablo Dapena González (born January 19, 1988 in Pontevedra ) is a Spanish triathlete . He is Spanish long-distance triathlon champion (2017) and ITU long-distance world champion (2018).

Career

In his youth, Pablo Dapena was active as a swimmer in the Club Natación Pontevedra for 13 years . At the age of 22 he studied abroad, in Hungary, for a year.

He has been running triathlon since 2010. In September 2014 and again in 2017 he came second in the national championships on the short distance triathlon.

In 2016, Pablo Dapena switched from the short distance to the medium and long distance after an injury break. In July 2016 he finished second at the Triathlon de Vitoria-Gasteiz .

In August 2017 he was disqualified at the World Championships on the long distance triathlon in Penticton (Canada) and in October he became the national long distance triathlon champion.

ITU world champion triathlon long distance

In 2018, the 30-year-old triathlon world champion over the long distance at the ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships (4 km swimming, 130 km cycling and 30 km running) in Denmark.

In September he also became ETU Vice-European Triathlon Long Distance Champion as part of the Challenge Madrid .

In the 2019 season he changes to the BMC Vifit Pro Triathlon Team . and in May the 31-year-old was runner-up in the long-distance triathlon world championship in Spain. At the Challenge Daytona Beach in December, he finished second behind the Canadian Lionel Sanders .

Sporting successes

Triathlon short and medium distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Dec 14, 2019 2 Challenge Daytona Beach United StatesUnited States Daytona Beach 02:23:32 behind Lionel Sanders
0Nov 3, 2019 2 Ironman 70.3 Buenos Aires ArgentinaArgentina Buenos Aires 03:38:44 Ironman 70.3 South American Championships
02nd June 2019 2 Ironman 70.3 Switzerland 2019 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Rapperswil-Jona
Oct 20, 2018 1 Challenge Peguera-Mallorca SpainSpain Peguera 03:54:08
19th May 2018 1 Challenge Lisboa PortugalPortugal Lisbon 03:39:11
Apr 21, 2018 1 Challenge Mogán Gran Canaria SpainSpain Mogan 04:00:25
April 15, 2018 2 Challenge Roma ItalyItaly Rome 03:24:11 Second behind Adam Bowden
Sep 10 2017 2 ESP Triathlon National Championships SpainSpain Valencia 01:50:24 Spanish runner-up behind Francesc Godoy
03rd Sep 2016 3 ESP Triathlon National Championships SpainSpain Banyoles 01:45:55
July 10, 2016 2 Triathlon de Vitoria-Gasteiz SpainSpain Vitoria-Gasteiz 03:59:40 Second behind Miguel Angel Fidalgo Rosello
13 Sep 2014 2 ESP Triathlon National Championships SpainSpain Aguilas 01:53:19 National runner-up behind Uxio Abuin Ares
Long distance triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
04th May 2019 2 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships SpainSpain Pontevedra 05:11:21 Vice world champion
23 Sep 2018 2 ETU Challenge Long Distance Triathlon European Championships SpainSpain Madrid 09:23:01 ETU Vice-European Champion Long Distance Triathlon as part of Challenge Madrid
July 14, 2018 1 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships DenmarkDenmark Fyn 05:19:30
Oct 22, 2017 1 ESP Long Distance Triathlon National Championships SpainSpain Ibiza 05:59:31 National champion long distance
27 Aug 2017 DSQ ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships CanadaCanada Penticton - World championship in the long distance triathlon (3 km swimming, 120 km cycling and 30 km running)

(DNF - Did Not Finish ; DSQ - Disqualified)

Web links

  • Profile and results of Pablo Dapena González in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on April 15, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TRIATHLON SPLITTER: SÄMMLER BECOMES BLEYMEHL, BMC TEAM 2019 WITHOUT CLAVEL (December 19, 2018)
  2. ↑ LIONEL SANDERS AND PAULA FINDLAY ARE THE 2019 CHALLENGE DAYTONA WINNERS (December 15, 2019)
  3. ↑ Lange starts the triathlon season with a podium finish (April 21, 2018)
  4. ↑ SPANISH OUTSIDER STRIKES BÖCHERER AND LONG (April 21, 2018)
  5. ↑ Challenge Rome 2018 - Fast race in the "Eternal City" (April 16, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Dapena González, Pablo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dapena, Pablo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Pontevedra