Emergency services have resumed in the morning of Monday the search for a missing athlete in the waters of the Miño River during a triathlon test held on Sunday in the city of Pontevedra in Tomiño , 112 Galicia sources reported.
The search device , in which media from Spain and Portugal participate, was activated when Civil Protection gave the alert of the disappearance of this athlete, which according to several media points is a 23-year-old young Portuguese, in the so-called Triathlon of Amizade, leaving from the pier of Goián, in Tomiño. Specifically, according to the Portuguese newspaper Jornal de Notícias , the missing person is called Rafael Sá and is a native of Barcelos . Always according to this newspaper, he had experience in trails , but it was the first triathlon test in which he participated.
Around 5:00 p.m. on Sunday , both the public, located on the pier of Goián (Pontevedra), and the organizers, lost eye contact with the athlete and gave the alarm, starting the search device. Civil protection, Civil Guard, Baixo Iño Firefighters, GES de A Guarda, Maritime Rescue and the Coast Guard of Galicia , in addition to the volunteer firefighters of Vilanova de Cerveira, divers and a boat of the Comandancia are participating in the tracking work Naval of the Minho.
In the early hours they have joined the effective search tasks of the A Guarda supramunicipal emergency group . The test, which enrolled about 300 athletes, consisted, in the mode for adults, of a sector of 750 meters swimming, 20 kilometers by bicycle and 5 kilometers of running .
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