With due delay as a result of the health crisis, Jaén received the best cyclists from the elite and under-23 categories this weekend to distribute the national road and time trial titles. An appointment for which the great role of the subsidiary Caja Rural-Seguros RGA in the road cycling nationals, which appeared with sixteen of its riders. Furthermore, it coincided that it was right in the community of the last winner of the road race, Carmelo Urbano.
And they couldn't have started better. Jokin Murguialday won the silver medal in the under-23 time trial. The 26.3 kilometers of route between Cazorla and La Hiruela were the scene of the good work of the young Basque runner, who showed good feelings from the beginning. After taking the best provisional time at the halfway point, he knew how to regulate his strength to cross the finish line in second place with a time of 39:19. Finally he was 29 seconds behind Raúl García, the new Spanish Champion.
Not content with just that, the second day of the Spanish Championships would be marked with a new medal, again thanks to Jokin Murguialday. This time he won silver in the online test.
Last, but not least, Miguel Ángel Ballesteros managed to win bronze in the elite category online event, and with this, complete the hat trick of medals that the team finally brought home. The queen test of the National of cycling It combined two elements that raised the expected level of hardness: the fast pace from the start and the high temperatures.
