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Noa Hirst, Dani Castellanos and Laura M\u00e1rquez stepped on the podium in their respective categories<\/strong><\/p>\n The DHI Spanish Cup raised the curtain last Sunday with its first scoring event in Ot\u00edvar (Granada). An event that marked the premiere of the structure focused on this discipline that Chus Castellanos has sponsored for 2024 within Planet MTB, with 3 worthy riders who made their big debut, all of them getting on the podium.<\/p>\n A demanding 1.6 kilometer track, which forced the participants to reach this start well... and Daniel Castellanos did not fail. Making his debut in the U23 category in style, the man from Madrid was unstoppable and won the scratch in both the qualification series and the final, beating all of his rivals.<\/p>\n \u201cI come back from Ot\u00edvar very happy,\u201d said Dani on the return trip. \u201cIn qualifying I clocked 2:46 and in the final I managed to lower my time by 2.\u201d I have started the year on the right foot and with a lot of confidence. In two weeks comes the second test of the Cup in Sant Andreu de la Barca and I will go with a lot of motivation and with the desire to give everything after this result.\u201d<\/p>\n Furthermore, he was satisfied with how his body responded: \u201cI felt quite strong, finding a very physical circuit, both in length and in arm work, as it had a lot of stone. It even had flat areas and some small climbs where you had to pedal. You had to be very good. In the end tired but with good resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n Como dec\u00edamos antes, Planet MTB ha creado esta estructura a la que se incorpora el junior Noa Hirst y la cadete Laura M\u00e1rquez. Ambos estuvieron magn\u00edficos tambi\u00e9n en Ot\u00edvar, propiciando un hat trick en el podio en un debut inolvidable para Planet MTB.<\/p>\n Noa is a 1st year junior, he is British and lives in Tarifa (C\u00e1diz). On Sunday he qualified 2nd, staying only 24\u201d behind the winner in his category, Francisco Mato. For her part, Laura is a 2nd year cadet and is the current Spanish runner-up in the specialty. In Ot\u00edvar she won emphatically against Irene Garc\u00eda Crespo.<\/p>\n The structure will have the support of MTR-2 during the 2024 season.<\/p>\n Text: Planet MTB\/Chus Castellanos<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Noa Hirst, Dani Castellanos y Laura M\u00e1rquez pisaron el podio en sus respectivas categor\u00edas La Copa de Espa\u00f1a de DHI levant\u00f3 el tel\u00f3n el pasado domingo con su primera puntuable en Ot\u00edvar (Granada). Una cita que supuso el estreno de la estructura centrada en esta disciplina que Chus Castellanos ha auspiciado de cara a 2024 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[479,331,349,474,350,333,478,351,480,224,472,357,475,476,473,477,352,353],"class_list":["post-8946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-andorra-dh","tag-dani-castelllanos","tag-descenso","tag-dh-mtb","tag-downhill","tag-downhill-mtb","tag-la-pinilla","tag-mtb","tag-mtr-2","tag-mtr2","tag-planet-mtb","tag-uci-dh","tag-uci-dow","tag-uci-downhill","tag-uci-mtb","tag-vallnord-pal-arinsal","tag-xc","tag-xc-mtb"],"yoast_head":"\n