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Portugal’s Vanessa Fernandes won her first Triathlon World Championship in
Hamburg today, overcoming a strong international field.
Fernandes had placed herself in the lead group after the swim, and with a
solid group of Americans and German athletes she worked hard to stay ahead
of the chasing pack which included defending champion Emma Snowsill from
Australia.
Exiting for the run, Fernandes immediately took the lead and forged a
sizeable lead ahead of Laura Bennett from the USA and German duo Ricarda
Lisk and Anja Dittmer. However Snowsill overcame a minute deficit to clock
the fastest run split to take second, whilst Bennett held on for her third
World Championship bronze medal in four years.
Corus British Triathlon could not match their medal success from yesterday’s
junior races where Hollie Avil and Alistair Brownlee won gold and silver
medals.
Both Andrea Whitcombe and Michelle Dillon had disappointing swims and
dropped back in the third cycle pack to start the 10km run over two minutes
behind the leaders. Despite running through the field, Whitcombe could only
manage 25th with Dillon just behind in 29th.
Whitcombe said on her performance: “I’m very disappointed with my race. I think both Michelle [Dillon] and I
chose the wrong starting positions on the swim pontoon and were never
allowed to get up with the leaders. You don’t want to be fighting for the
minor places, but we gave it everything on the run and came through to
finish strongly.”
BG Triathlon World Championships Women’s Results:
1. Vanessa Fernandes, Portugal
2. Emma Snowsill, Australia
3. Laura Bennett, USA
4. Emma Moffatt, Australia
5. Ricarda Lisk, Germany
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25. Andrea Whitcombe, Great Britain
29. Michelle Dillon, Great Britain
59. Kerry Lang, Great Britain
Yesterday Corus British Triathlon won two World Championship medals in the
Junior competitions with gold for Northampton’s Hollie Avil and silver for
Alistair Brownlee from Leeds.
Tomorrow will see Tim Don defend his World Elite Men starting at 2pm GMT.
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