Spanish husband-wife duo Aday Alvarez and Isora Sosa Caballero won the men’s and women’s races respectively at the Qatar National Triathlon Series at the Hilton Salwa Resort’s marina.
Isora convincingly beat two swim specialists Sarah Nicholls and Michelle Shillabeer (both TriClub Doha) to clinch home the title.  Her challenger on the bike was Julie Melville (Rasen Adventure Shop), who took back 33 seconds and on the run Toni Snoxell (TriClub Doha) went 73 seconds faster for the best 4.6km run split (17:35) of the day but that was nowhere near enough to overturn the swim advantage that Isora had on either. 
For Aday too, a dominant swim (07:43) was a good foundation for a perfect race. Others, with the exception of Guillame Soutter (Team Al Jassra), not coming within minutes of him on the bike and even Ethan Bennet’s (Millfield Triathlon) incredible 15:13 run didn’t bring him close.
First Qatari athlete was Saad Almejali (Qtri) in eighth in his category. Saad led a trio of Mubarak Alajji (NeverWasted Team) and Abdulla al-Menhali (QTri) over the line to close out the top 10 in the 18-39 age group. 
Results
Junior Men: 1. Matteo Franceschi (TriClub Doha) 1:14:02; 2. Patricio Gutierrez (TriClub Doha) 1:16:08; 3. Liam Halleux (TriClub Doha) 1:27:29
Men 18-39: 1. Aday Alvarez Diez De Ulzurrun 1:07:01; 2. Ethan Bennett (Millfield Triathlon) 1:08:46; 3. Erik Solberg (TriClub Doha) 1:12:49
Men 40+: 1. Steve Macklin (TriClub Doha) 1:11:14; 2. Christophe Owens (TriClub Doha) 1:16:17; 3. Simon Mortimer 1:16:17
Junior Women: 1. Ailsa Cameron (TriClub Doha) 1:31:11; 2. Anvitha Erini (TriClub Doha) 1:54:05; 3. Rasha Sajeer Kalandan (TriClub Doha) 2:03:19
Women 18-39: 1. Isora Sosa Cabalerro 1:18:35; 2. Toni Snoxell (TriClub Doha) 1:20:59; 3. Adeline Cormary (TriClub Doha) 1:25:44
Women 40+: 1. Julie Melville (Rasen Adventure Shop) 1:20:32; 2. Daniela Sposi (TriClub Doha) 1:22:45; 3. Karen Montgomery (TriClub Doha) 1:31:11
Relay: 1. Ahmed Atari / Fadel al-Khater / Khalid Alqahtani (QTRI TEAM REALLY 1) 1:06:29; 2. Stuart Bloor / Marwan Aljalham / Rachid Boudalla (Rasen Adventure Shop) 1:06:57; 3. Abdulrahman Alolan / Nayef al-Mesallam / Mohamed Alsulaiti (QTRI TEAM REALLY 2) 1:09:21 (best all Qatari team)

Qatari Category
Qatari Junior: 1. Abdulaziz AL-Jaber 1:27:41; 2. Abdulaziz Majid Alghanim 1:48:00
Qatari Men 18-39: 1. Saad Almejali (Qtri) 1:17:42: 2. Mubarak Alajji (Neverwasted team) 1:18:05; 3. Abdulla al-Menhali (QTRI) 1:19:08
Qatari Men 40+: 1. Soliman Aladawi (QTRI) 1:26:33; 2. Abdulaziz Almohannadi 1:27:50; 3. Nasser Mubarak (QTRI) 1:31:04