2023-05-27 18:44:00
Georgia Taylor-Brown and Alex Yee gave Britain a double at the World Triathlon Championship Series race in Cagliari, Italy, while repeating last year’s wins. The DTU team was also able to show itself really well over the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling, 10 km running), which attracted attention with four top ten places. Jonas Schomburg finished sixth, Lasse Lührs tenth. Lisa Tertsch and Nina Eim also ran into the top ten with strong running performances as eighth and ninth place.
Their teammates Annika Koch and Laura Lindemann, who had been part of the large chasing group during the previous ten laps on the bike, could not quite keep up with the high speed at midsummer 27 degrees and finished 24th and 29th. Anabel Knoll finished 38th.
Groundhog Day for Taylor-Brown and Emma Lombardi
At the top, the race was almost a double of last year. A group of six with Taylor-Brown, Emma Lombardi (FRA), Vittoria Lopes (BRA), Taylor Spivey, Summer Rappaport (both USA) and Maya Kingma (NED) started the run more than a minute ahead of the chasing field. After half the running distance it was just a duel between Taylor-Brown and Lombardi, who was second behind the Brit last year. History should repeat itself. Georgia Taylor-Brown (winning time: 1:46:43) ignited the turbo in the final lap and left the second-placed Frenchwoman (1:47:06) behind by 24 seconds. Taylor Spivey (1:47:36) was third.
Schomburg among the best in the running final
In the men’s race, 24 athletes changed from cycling to running within just 10 seconds. Four DTU athletes, Jonas Schomburg, Lasse Lührs, Valentin Wernz and Johannes Vogel, were among the front runners. Already after the first of the four laps, five athletes, Yee, Hayden Wilde (NZL), the two Frenchmen Léo Bergere and Pierre Le Corre, as well as the courageous Jonas Schomburg, were able to pull away slightly. A lap later, it was a duel between Yee and Wilde for victory, which the Briton won after 1:36:28 hours, 5 seconds ahead of Hayden Wilde (1:36:33). Defending world champion Léo Bergere secured third place ahead of his two teammates Dorian Coninx and Pierre Le Corre. Jonas Schomburg followed in sixth place, who ran a 29:45 min and was only a good half minute off the podium.
In addition to the EM seventh in Munich, Lasse Lührs also made people sit up and take notice. The 27-year-old from Bonn crossed the finish line in tenth place in his first international appearance of the season, underlining the improving form of the German men, who had missed out on the top 10 in the two previous WTC races.
Blummenfelt in 15th place, Iden far behind again
Valentin Wernz, who was the first to slip into the excellent field of participants in Sardinia at short notice, and Johannes Vogel rounded off the good impression of the German team as 13th and 14th – and thus ahead of the 15th-ranked Olympic champion of 2021 Kristian Blummenfelt .
One of the defeated was Lasse Nygaard Priester in 39th place, who was almost a minute ahead of the Ironman Hawaii winner Gustav Iden (42nd) from Norway, who was again left behind early.
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