Mountain Biking

Trinidad, January 29 (JIT) - The Cuban Angel Luis Pupo, second in the last edition, won the III Escambray Mountain Bike Challenger 2024, concluded in this city National Monument of Cuba.

Pupo turned 29 years old this Sunday and gave himself the longed-for triumph, in spite of arriving in fourth place at the finish line, located in the historic center of this Spíritus city. The unfortunate thing was that his bicycle broke again during the embarrassing 40-kilometer stretch from the base of the Topes de Collantes massif.

The new title holder clocked 1:17.26 hours, only ahead of the previous monarch, the local Brayan Mandín of the Freyche club, who stopped the clocks in 1:12:57. He was also ahead of Ecuador's Jorge Brito (1:13:02), of the mixed international team, and the host Jorge Rojas (1:17:21), master A of Manigüeros A. 

Almost next to Pupo in fifth place was José Alberto Deza, from the capital city, of the Aventura team (1:22:06). He was followed by Randol Izquierdo, of Manigüeros A (1:22:09), all of the elite category except Rojas.

Completing the Sunday top ten were Alexei Martínez, master B of Velo Station (1:22:20); Juan Manuel Cabrera, elite of Freyche (1:26:06); Álvaro Cardoso, master A of Manigüeros A (1:26:26), and the Havana elite Josué Manso, of Chirimoya (1:26:35).