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SETIU: Spain’s Maria Mercedes Alvarez Ponton, astride Nobby, overcame thunderstorm, darkness and her male challengers to win the FEI-World Endurance Championship 2008 individual title at the Terengganu Inter-national Endurance Park (TIEP) in Lembah Bidong here yesterday.
The United Arab Emirates, meanwhile clinched the team title.
Ponton’s win underlined Spain’s supremacy in world endurance races as it was their second win in the individual category of the prestigious championship following Miguel Ubach’s triumph in Germany, in 2006. Ponton completed the 160km race in 8’48:06 to become the 10th woman to win the individual title in the 12 editions of the race since 1986.
Apart from Ubach, the only other man to have won the individual title was the UAE’s Ahmed Al Maktoum in Spain in 2002.
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