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The twentieth edition of the Villa de Fuente Alamo Triathlon meet this weekend in the town to the top athletes of the mode, with the Spanish Olympic team among the 625 participants in the test.

The general director of Sports, Antonio Peñalver, today announced the competition accompanied by the mayor of Fuente Alamo, María Antonio Conesa, Councillor for Sports, Juan Fulgencio Lopez and sports coach, Ginés Bermúdez.

"The test began with the development of triathlon in Spain, every year gets to have the top athletes in this class and this year the Spanish Federation and the International Triathlon Union has given to this test the character of scoring within the circuits testing, "said the CEO of Sports.

To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the test has been organized Expotriatlón Fuente Alamo 2009, a week that are scheduled a series of activities and events from today until next Saturday.

In addition, they will be organizing a tribute to all the champions of the previous editions to date.

Another novelty of this anniversary will be the museum of triathlon, an exhibition of posters, shirts and everything related to the history of Fuente Alamo triathlon to be held in the exhibition hall José Hernández de la Casa de la Cultura.

In addition, there will be a lecture series, Dr. Pedro Guillén or triathlon world champion Javier Gomez Noya, among others.

"These acts round this already prestigious event," said Penalver.

Participants in the test, to be held on Saturday, the presence of, among others, said Javier Gómez Noya (4 th in the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008, World Champion and World Cup Triathlon 2008, European Champion 2007), Ruben Bravo Zúñiga (four-times European champions Triathlon, Triathlon World Champion team and team bronze medal at the 2007 European Championship, and José Manuel Tovar Sword (European Champion and Runner Up U-23 World Duathlon in 2004, European Champion U-23, 6 º in World Championship in 2005 and champion of Spain Absolute Triathlon).

Source: CARM