Spain scores Under23/Junior Mixed Relay World Championship win

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In a thrilling hour of racing that saw constant lead changes until the very last second, Spain proved victorious in the 2016 ITU Under23/Junior Mixed Relay World Championships, just edging Great Britain and Australia for the win. The British team took silver, followed by the Australians.

Each relay member completed a 250m swim, 5km bike and 1.6km run tagging off in order of woman-man-woman-man.

On the first leg, Spain’s Ines Santiago tagged off to teammate Antonio Serrat Seoane just seconds ahead of France, followed by Korea, but only 30 seconds separated a whopping 15 teams.

It was then Australia, New Zealand, Japan and France that took off on their bikes first in the second leg, with a …

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