Parade of nations in Panevėžys welcomes athletes from 30 nations

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By Paul Groves | 13 Jul, 2017

ETU President Renato Bertrandi is attending the 2017 ETU Panevėžys Triathlon Youth European Championships Festival.

He is joined by Executive Board Member, Galina Shipovalova and Honorary Member as well as one of the longest-serving officers of ETU, Poland’s Kris Piątkowski.

Together yesterday evening they witnessed a mightily impressive Parade of Nations that stopped the city and saw spectators applauding the athletes as they marched, national flags held high, behind children wearing national dress.

For these young athletes, this is the start of their Triathlon Festival and will no doubt stay in their memories. When they tell their children and perhaps their children’s children, that they were part of such a Parade of Nations before they became Olympic athletes … well, this is just how dreams are made into reality.

For four days these young athletes will train together, eat together and race together and along the way they will make important new friends who will stay with them for the many years ahead of them in their Triathlon Career. Development is the biggest sense of the word.

As the ceremony finished, President Bertrandi said, “I would like to thank the organizers for putting on a truly impressive opening ceremony this evening. I have been to many Parades of Nations but tonight, seeing the children all wearing national dress, leading the many enthusiastic athletes who were carrying their national flags … well, it was just … perfect.

These young athletes, full of potential, are our new generation of Olympians. Some will succeed, some will not share that same level of success but each and every one of them will do their best for their Federations, for their families and for our sport and I am proud to be here to see them race.

Development in Europe is strong and it is events like this that are so important to the growth of our sport. I would like to wish each and every athlete a safe and fair race over the coming days and in particular, I am really looking forwards to the Relays.”

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Related Event: 2017 Panevezys ETU Triathlon Youth European Championships Festival

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Results: Mixed Youth Relay
1.	Team I Great Britain	GBR	01:07:10
2.	Team I Portugal	POR	01:07:24
3.	Team I France	FRA	01:07:40
4.	Team I Switzerland	SUI	01:07:47
5.	Team I Italy	ITA	01:07:55
6.	Team I Russia	RUS	01:08:01
7.	Team I Israel	ISR	01:08:03
8.	Team I Austria	AUT	01:08:16
9.	Team I Hungary	HUN	01:08:17
10.	Team I Denmark	DEN	01:08:44

Results: Semifinal 1 Youth Men
1.	Daniel Slater	GBR	00:36:45
2.	Andreas Carlsson	SWE	00:36:56
3.	Baptiste Passemard	FRA	00:36:59
4.	Itamar Eshed	ISR	00:37:03
5.	Davide Ingrilli	ITA	00:37:06
6.	Balázs Kovács	HUN	00:37:26
7.	Boris Pierre	FRA	00:37:27
8.	José Vieira	POR	00:37:28
9.	Riccardo Brighi	ITA	00:37:34
10.	Iñaki Candel Bermudo	ESP	00:37:34

Results: Semifinal 1 Youth Women
1.	Jessica Fullagar	FRA	00:40:51
2.	Abbie Williams	GBR	00:41:01
3.	Beatrice Mallozzi	ITA	00:41:18
4.	Anja Weber	SUI	00:41:29
5.	Freya Thomson	GBR	00:41:45
6.	Alzbeta Hruskova	CZE	00:41:48
7.	Hannelore Willen	BEL	00:41:55
8.	Augusta Grønberg Christensen	DEN	00:42:01
9.	Chiara Cocchi	ITA	00:42:08
10.	Irina Juldibina	AIN	00:42:22

Results: Semifinal 2 Youth Men
1.	Matthew Willis	GBR	00:36:56
2.	Sam Hart	GBR	00:36:59
3.	Itamar Levanon	ISR	00:37:16
4.	Levente Karai	HUN	00:37:16
5.	Florent Lefebvre	FRA	00:37:19
6.	Sergio Baxter Cabrera	ESP	00:37:21
7.	Valdemar Solok	DEN	00:37:24
8.	Nicolò Strada	ITA	00:37:28
9.	Alexandre Ribeiro	POR	00:38:01
10.	Matteo Nonino	ITA	00:38:08

Results: Semifinal 2 Youth Women
1.	Pia Totschnig	AUT	00:41:00
2.	Audrey Ducornet	FRA	00:41:05
3.	Libby Coleman	GBR	00:41:11
4.	Nora Gmür	SUI	00:41:13
5.	Anna Goreva	AIN	00:41:18
6.	Hanne Peeters	BEL	00:41:22
7.	Nikolett Ferenczi	HUN	00:41:23
8.	Chiara Lobba	ITA	00:41:26
9.	Costanza Arpinelli	ITA	00:41:29
10.	Hagar Cohen Kalif	ISR	00:41:44

Results: Semifinal 3 Youth Men
1.	James Chantler-Mayne	GBR	00:36:47
2.	Ricardo Batista	POR	00:36:51
3.	Alessio Crociani	ITA	00:36:52
4.	Jamie Riddle	RSA	00:37:01
5.	Zsombor Dévay	HUN	00:37:04
6.	Oscar Gladney Rundqvist	DEN	00:37:10
7.	Gergely Kiss	HUN	00:37:29
8.	Jakob Fink	AUT	00:37:34
9.	Jan Skrjanc	SLO	00:37:48
10.	Angel Sanchez Carreras	ESP	00:37:54