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Fernandes and Belaubre Win Air temperature during the night dropped to 14oC,
causing the water temperature in Lake Casa de Campa to drop below the
magic 20oC mark, so the women were allowed to wear wetsuits for the
2 lap, 1.5km swim. Pip
Taylor of Australia, Leanda Cave of Britain and Pilar Hidalgo of Spain
moved to the front after the start signal and stayed there through the
first turn buoy, when Sylvia Gemignani of Annabel
Luxford of A
tidy group of 5 formed at the front including: The
lead group continued to pull ahead of the chasers and by the bike to
run transition they had just under 2 minutes on the large chase group. Liz Blatchford and Annabel Luxford were the
first to park their bike and start the 4 lap, 10km run course. The youngster of the sport, twenty year old
and defending champion Vanessa Fernandes had a bit of a problem getting
through Transition Two, but once on her feet, she sprinted up to the
leaders and never turned back. Liz
Blatchford held onto the young Portuguese athlete through the first
3 laps, but by the bell lap she was worn down and dropped off the pace. Fernandes ran a 35.22 10km to win by a margin
of 25 seconds over Blatchford. Annabel
Luxford was 3rd , Top
10 results are:
In the men’s event, ITU new heart-throb Ivan Vassiliev
of The seven swim leaders were joined on the first
lap of the bike by the new generation of triathlon stars from Belgium
Peter Croes, plus Spanish team-mates Javier Gomez and Xavier Llobet,
along with David Dellow of By the seventh lap, the leaders had appeared to
be slowing down as a small desperate quartet broke from the chase pack
led by Joe Umphenour of the USA, Deanaz and Sudrie of France and Anton
Chuchko of Russia. Although they
took some time out of the leaders before the bike to run transition
it was not enough to impact the results. Zvonko Cubric was the first to start the 10 km run
followed by Frederic Belaubre, Peter Croes and Stuart Hayes. By the end of the first lap 9 athletes from the
lead were still in contention, but by the end of the second
lap Croes, Gomez, Dellow, Ruderer and Cubric had all been dropped which
left Belaubre, Polikarpenko, Hayes and Vassiliev running together at
the front. The quartet at the front stayed intact through the
third lap when Frederic Belaubre found that extra gear and
slowly pulled away leaving the others to fight for the 2 remaining steps
on the podium. Vassiliev was
dropped by Polikarpenko and Hayes, and Hayes broke from Polikarpenko
with 1 kilometre to go. It was probably too early as the big Ukrainian
lad with years of experience out-sprinted all challengers to place second
while Hayes settled for third.
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