Men’s Triathlon
Richard Varga (Slovakia) was the man who wanted to go hard and led the swim at a good pace. He was first out of the water alongside Igor Polyanskiy (Russia) and Alessandro Fabian (Italy). A lead group of 10 racers soon pulled away on the cycling leg. The Brownlee brothers were instrumental and pushed a strong pace up the tough climbs to pull the group away. Johnny Brownlee (Great Britain) is the first one to make a move as the run starts and he is joined by Alistair Brownlee (Great Britain) and Vincent Luis (France). Soon, Luis was dropped, leaving the two brothers in the familiar position of battling for the gold. Again, Alistair was able to go on the attack and drop Johnny. He ended up winning by six seconds, a gap that dropped as Johnny chased him home. It was over 30 seconds back to the bronze medalist, Henri Schoeman (South Africa) who barely held off his compatriot Richard Murray (South Africa) who managed the fastest run of all.
🥇Alistair Brownlee 🇬🇧
🥈Johnny Brownlee 🇬🇧
🥉Henri Schoeman 🇿🇦
Women’s Triathlon
It was clear that the plan for most was to attack the heavy favourite Gwen Jorgensen (United States) before the run, which she would invariably dominate. It was bad news after the swim, she only trailed by just over ten seconds to the leader Caroline Routier (Spain) and was in the main group for the cycling. It was a group of about 18 and despite persistent attacks by Nicola Sprig (Switzerland) no one was willing to join and take the race to Jorgensen. This meant early in the run, she pulled away with Sprig. They were followed by a smaller group of Non Stanford (Great Britain), Vicky Holland (Great Britain), Emma Moffat (Australia) and Barbara Riveros (Chile). The British pair managed to drop the other duo and the housemates were battling for bronze. It was Holland who managed to beat out Stanford, finishing a few seconds ahead to win the bronze medal.
🥇Gwen Jorgensen 🇺🇸
🥈Nicola Sprig 🇨🇭
🥉Vicky Holland 🇬🇧
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