RACE REPORTS Elite results Top 3 Men Tim Don 1:50:20 Kris Gemmell 1:50:23 Courtney Atkinson 1:50:28 Top 3 Women Emma Snowsill 1:59:35 Emma Moffatt 1:59:51 Helen Jenkins 1:59:51 Emma Snowsill shows us the textbook winner’s pose There’s nothing like a $200,000 prize to get the elite males out in force HY-VEE ITU ELITE CUP THE TEMPERATURE RISES AS BRIT AND AUSSIE TIM DON AND EMMA SNOWSILLPICK UP A PRETTY PENNY IN THE USA Margaux Smale, Phil Mosley Phil Smale, Margaux WHERE IOWA, USA WHEN 13 JUNE 2010 from New Zealand and Aussie Courtney Words Words WINNERS TIM DON (GB), 1:50:20 EMMA SNOWSILL, Helen Jenkins, Sarah Haskins and Atkinson. The close-fought race was settled Jodie Stimpson give it that final push 1:59:35 on the run, where Don caught and passed his closest rivals to fi nish three seconds clear. rich vein of running form meant Runner-up Gemmel scooped $50,000 for his it was only a matter of time efforts, but was left to refl ect upon three A before top British triathlete Tim seconds that cost him $150,000. Don earned a big win. And in In the women’s race it was an Aussie terms of prize purses, they don’t come one-two with Emma Snowsill breaking the much bigger than the Hy-Vee ITU Elite Cup tape 16 seconds ahead of Emma Moffatt, in Iowa, with a total of one million dollars on with Britain’s Helen Jenkins in third. offer. A jubilant Don walked through the Moffatt and Jenkins engaged in a close- tape, raised his arms in victory and let fought battle for the fi nish line and despite Delly Carr/ Andras Szasz/ Triathlon.org, Scott Fisher Fisher Scott Triathlon.org, Szasz/ Andras Carr/ Delly out a huge whoop of joy as he bagged the identical times, it was Moffatt who was $200,000 fi rst prize following his narrow given second spot, leaving Jenkins with Tim Don was in great form and won three seconds clear of the field Photos Olympic-distance win over Kris Gemmell the fi nal podium position. 66 AUGUST 2010 TRI18.race_reports 70 7/9/10 4:07:17 PM RACE REPORTS UK IRONMAN 70.3 WIMBLEBALL UK’S BELLA BAYLISS STORMS TO VICTORY, BUT PHIL GRAVES CAN’T HOLD ON TO THE TITLE FOR A SECOND YEAR WHERE WIMBLEBALL LAKE, DEVON Graves, as he took his third UK WHEN 20 JUNE 2010 WINNERS FRASER 70.3 title with the day’s fastest CARTMELL (04:17:03) BELLA BAYLISS run split of 1:17:06, and Sweden’s (04:53:52) Jonas Djurback took third. It was an all-star cast who trod In the women’s race it was the the waters of Wimbleball Lake in UK’s Bella Bayliss who clinched Devon for the start of Ironman UK the win, taking her tally of IM 70.3. With World Championship victories to 16. Bayliss said: “From Fraser Cartmell qualification up for grabs, prize the second the gun went off I had gets out the guns money and the opportunity to win an intense race right until the a prestigious IM event, it was no finish. Luci Zelencova led the cold surprise to see several previous swim, then the bike was winners, including a former IM challenging with really steep World Champ Faris Al Sultan. hills. I took it steady, working into Last year’s winner and the run and kept a nice strong Triathlon Plus columnist Phil pace through to the finish.” Graves emerged from the swim hot on the heels of the leaders, before opening up a three-minute gap with his trademark super-fast bike split of 02:30:24. It wasn’t enough to distance him from two-time winner Fraser Cartmell, who came to this race having already notched up a win at Ironman South Africa 70.3 in The chaos of the Bella Bayliss was unsure she would February. Cartmell’s all-round super-cold swim even race due to achy legs strength proved too much for NOKIA WINDSOR TRIATHLON 14-YEAR-OLD SKY DRAPER STEALS THE SPRINT, AND WORTHINGTON AND RAW SET THE WINNING STANDARD WHERE WINDSOR WHEN 13 JUNE 2010 a minute behind the fast-moving WINNERS STEVEN WORTHINGTON (1:51:31 group of Richard Stannard, Marc VANESSA RAW (2:03:43) Jenkins and Gavin Noble and it This year’s Nokia Windsor was his bike and run prowess Triathlon attracted 2,500 that saw him win the day. competitors to take part in its After pulling back nearly a 20th event. From 14-year-old minute on the bike he eventually Sky Draper, who tore apart the caught and passed Olympian sprint race, to 71-year-old Jenkins and Noble on the Daphne Belt, a veteran of 19 three- lap run course to Ironmans, athletes of all ages record the day’s fastest and abilities lined up to swim the run and bike splits. river Thames, ride through In the women’s race it all Windsor Great Park and run up boiled down to the run, after the the steep hill to Windsor Castle, top six stayed together on the via Eton College. bike and swim. Over the 10km In the elite race it was Steven course Vanessa Raw showed a Worthington and Vanessa Raw clean pair of heels to second who took top honours. Men’s placed Lois Rossendale, while Winner Vanessa Raw goes for the line on the run leg winner Worthington of Team Jacqui slack finished a minute TBC emerged from the Thames later to clinch third. AUGUST 2010 67 TRI18.race_reports 71 7/9/10 4:07:25 PM RACE REPORTS ETU EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS IT’S A TWO-MAN RACE AS ALI BROWNLEE AND JAVIER GOMEZ GO HEAD TO HEAD IN THE EUROPEAN CHAMPS WHERE ATHLONE, IRELAND WHEN victory was far from assured. The 3/ 4 JULY 2010 WINNERS ALISTAIR former world champ relegated BROWNLEE (1:44:24) NICOLA SPIRIG (1:57:58) Brownlee to silver last year. From Alistair Brownlee’s return from the gun the two took to the lead injury seems complete. After and never relinquished it. missing the start of the 2010 Breaking away from the main season due to a stress fracture, swim pack they led into T1 before Brownlee claimed the ETU pulling clear on the bike, with The crowds were out in force to see European Champs ahead of Italy’s Alessandro Fabian the only tri heavyweights go head to head reigning champion Javier Gomez. remaining threat. After T2 The European Championship Brownlee pulled ahead of Gomez title was one of the few Brownlee on the 10km run and finished 40 hadn’t already won and thanks to seconds clear of the Spaniard to the presence of Gomez, Brownlee’s snag the 2010 European title. Winning the Euro Champs had been Gomez is left behind Brownlee’s old injuries are nowhere on Brownlee’s ‘To Do’ list for a while after T2 to be seen as he leads the bike Eimear Mullan flew into the winner’s DAMBUSTER slot at the Dambuster Triathlon TRIATHLON A THOUSAND ATHLETES ATTEND QUALIFIER FOR THE WORLD AGE-GROUP OLYMPIC-DISTANCE CHAMPS WHERE RUTLAND WATER, LEICESTERSHIRE The men’s winner was WHEN 19 JUNE, 2010 WINNERS LAWRENCE Lawrence Fanous with a time of FANOUS (1:58:36) EIMEAR MULLAN (2:11:01) 01:58:36. Fanous has enjoyed This year’s Dambuster was a several podium finishes in qualifier for the world age-group France this season, where he Olympic-distance champs in even won his own body weight in Budapest 2010, and saw 1,000 wine by finishing first in the athletes enter Rutland Water as Dordogne regional Champs. dawn broke over the reservoir. Second and third place finishers Conor Murphy (01:59:31) and Ashley Hurdman (02:00:47) were probably left wishing Fanous had drunk it all the night before. In the women’s field, Eimear Mullan clawed back lost time from the swim with devastating bike and run splits that left her closest challengers five minutes down in a time of 02:11:01. Only Jubilation at the end of the Dambuster run seconds apart, Stacey Penn came in second (02:16:06). 68 SUMMER 2010 TRI18.race_reports 66 7/9/10 4:07:34 PM RACE REPORTS Spectators flocked to the iconic waterfront for the race start TRI-NATIONS VS UK SPRINT TRIATHLON PATRIOTISM APLENTY ON SHOW AS KIWIS, AUSSIES, SAFFAS AND BRITS GET READY TO RACE WHERE DORNEY LAKE, ETON went to another UK triathlete, WHEN 13 JUNE, 2010 WINNERS Paul Harrison in 58:20. The TOBY MATTHEWSON (55:05 biggest competitor SAMANTHA SMITH (01:07:46) contingent was British, so it Competitors wore face paint was no surprise when first and and their best country-colours third place in the women’s for this sprint triathlon at race also went to Brits; Dorney Lake in Eton, home of Samantha Smith (01:07:46) the 2012 Olympic rowing and Laura Chignell (01:12:53). event. With an emphasis on Debbie Coney of Italy came fun the triathletes from second with a time of 01:12:13. tri-nations Australia, New Zealand and South Africa competed against the UK and a host of other countries. Doing his country proud, Toby Matthewson from the UK clinched first place with a time of 55:06. Just under three minutes behind him, A proudly displayed Jason Bewley from Australia St George takes to the water finished in 57:50 while third LIVERPOOL BALA MIDDLE TRIATHLON DISTANCE TRIATHLON SNOWDONIA NATIONAL PARK IS THE BREATHTAKING MORE THAN 1,500 ATHLETES FLOCK TO THE SCOUSE CAPITAL BACKDROP FOR THE BTF MIDDLE-DISTANCE TRIATHLON FOR ONE THE BIGGEST TRIATHLONS IN THE UK WHERE BALA LAKE, WALES WHEN Down to joke: “If that’s WHERE LIVERPOOL WHEN 27 JUNE 2010 13 JUNE 2010 WINNERS JAMES rolling, I’d hate to see what WINNERS DAVID ANDERSON (01:55:10), GILFILLAN (03:47:15), LOUISE hilly looks like.” JILL WILKINSON (02:21:14) COLLINS (04:21:42) In the men’s race James Finally, a good summer and Sunday, Bala Lake in Wales was the Gilfillan emerged from Bala 27 June at the Liverpool Triathlon venue for the 2010 BTF lake close on the leaders’ was no exception as more than 1,500 National Middle-Distance heels before opening up an competitors gathered at Liverpool’s Triathlon Championships.