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Teenage bicycle owner Estela Domínguez has died after being hit by a truck whereas coaching, the Royal Spanish Biking Federation (RFEC) stated in a press release on Friday.
The accident occurred on a freeway within the Spanish metropolis of Salamanca, the assertion stated.
Domínguez, who was solely 19, was described by the RFEC as “one of the crucial promising nationwide riders.”
“From the RFEC we deeply remorse the dying of Estela Domínguez and we need to prolong our honest condolences to her kin and teammates of hers,” the RFEC added. “All Spanish biking is in mourning.”
In accordance with the RFEC, Domínguez categorised second within the junior class within the Spanish Girls’s Cup in 2022 and had ridden for the Spanish Nationwide staff within the Tour du Gévaudan Occitanie within the Nations Cup.
Her racing staff Sopela, who Domínguez had joined firstly of 2023, stated in a press release: “With immense ache, we’ve realized the information that Estela Domínguez has died this afternoon as sufferer of a crash whereas coaching.
“We nonetheless can’t course of the extremely troublesome lack of our bicycle owner. We’re with the household in these horrible moments. Relaxation in peace.”
CNN has reached out to the native police in Salamanca for remark.
Alejandro Valverde, the 2009 Vuelta a España winner, posted his condolences on social media.
“There aren’t any phrases that assist one thing like this,” he wrote on Twitter.
“All my like to the household and pals of Estela Domínguez and particularly her father with whom I shared a squad in my early years. RIP.”
Domínguez’s father was Juan Carlos Domínguez, per Reuters, who received a stage of the Giro d’Italia.
