My Week in Tri: 25 September

WTCS Pontevedra: Full Results here

|Women: 🏊️Small gaps on the swim with Kingma and Seregni driving at the front but most contenders in touch. 🚴 The favorites were all together early on the bike with around a 40s lead over the chase pack. Jorgensen was dropped from the chasers. 🏃 Potter, Lombardi and Waugh got a gap on Beaugrand in T2. Lombardi was shortly dropped making it only Potter and Waugh out in front. Potter found an extra gear to take the win by 18s. | Men: 🏊️ Hauser and Schomburg led the swim with Yee and Wilde losing 45s?! 🚴 A group of 24 men were in the front with Wilde in the chase pack and Yee even further back in another chase group. 🏃 Into T2 and Yee was 2min back and Wilde almost 1min behind. Insult to injury had Wilde needing to serve a penalty for dropping his swim cap. Coninx, Bergere, Le Corre and Hellwig were side-by-side in front entering the stadium. Sprint finish to decide the podium. Wilde finished 10th with the 5th fastest run and Yee in 30th with the 8th fastest run.

Potter and Coninx are your new World Champions for 2023 🥳 

Challenge Sanremo: Full Results here

| Women: 🏊️ Stimpson lead out the water with 3 other ladies close behind. The eventual podium were all almost 2min behind. 🚴 Nieuwoudt, Dornaeur and Clavel mostly led the bike together but Nieuwoudt lost 30s on the final technical descent. 🏃 Clavel was the early leader on the run but Nieuwoudt eventually made the pass while having the fastest run of the day. | Men: 🏊️ Sperl led out the water with a small group of 5 spread out behind him. 🚴 Keulen was riding up front with Sperl before being led off the course by the motorbike (he later had a crash trying to avoid a car?!). Sperl had Viain, Guilloux, Wayaffe and Dreitz all chasing him but managed to get off the bike with more than a 2min lead. 🏃Sperl managed the 3rd fastest run of the day to extend his lead with only Aernouts and Thalmann catching him but 7min behind at the tape.

70.3 Augusta: Full Results here

| Women: 🏊️ Alexander and Adam came out the water in the lead with Findlay ominously just 10s behind. Hering and Jewett were almost a further minute behind. 🚴Findlay had her trademark bike and got off the bike with Adam, about 4:30 ahead of Hering and most notably uber-runner Jewett. 🏃 It was Findlay vs Jewett and by 10km Jewett was into 2nd and 2:26 behind. Findlay managed to hang on rather comfortably in the end. | Men: 🏊️ Masterclass from Noodt as he started the race swimming himself to a 45s lead over Laundry and 2:05 lead over Sanders. 🚴 Laundry caught him and the pair rode together until T2 where they had an almost 4min lead on Sanders and Foley. 🏃Noodt quite quickly established a lead on Laundry that kept growing throughout the run. He had the quickest run of the day but only 1s quicker than Sanders.

70.3 Cozumel: Full Results here

The tracker has a few apparent bugs in the mens race but I have tried my best to piece the race together.

| Women: 🏊️Sakaluk lead the swim with Berry and Crowly a few strokes behind. Frades lost a disappointing 5:42. 🚴 Berry and Crowley rode the whole bike together whith Frades in 3rd losing almost another 5min. 🏃 Berry took the lead early on and never looked back. Crowley, for the first race in a long time, had a solid run which will feel like a victory for her. | Men: 🏊️ Riele and Rodrigues came out the water first along with Anzaldo and Pereda, almost 1min ahead of threats Taccone, Chase and Lopes. 🚴 Taccone and Lopes caught the front four by halfway into the bike. Riele and Taccone came into T2 with a 1min gap the the rest of the chasers. 🏃 By halfway into the run, uber-runner Rodriguez had already hit the front with a 30s lead to Taccone. Riele was sitting in 5th with 5km to go and ran himself onto the podium.