Ruben Ruzafa of Spain won by 5:59 over Yeray Luxem of Belgium and Lesley Paterson of Scotland won by 4:18 over Renata Bucher of Switzerland at XTERRA France.
by Tim Carlson, July 3, 2016
Davide Giardini won it on the swim and the bike while Lauren Goss topped the women’s field with a well-balanced attack at Challenge San Gil.
Sebastian Kienle edged fellow German Andi Böcherer in a sub-8 hour duel and Australian Melissa Hauschildt won as Daniela Ryf DNF at Ironman Frankfurt.
Alistair Brownlee broke away from his brother Jonny with 1100 meters to go to take his 21st WTS title at the WTS Stockholm.
Flora Duffy of Bermuda made a solo break on the bike and held her lead to the finish for her first ever WTS win; Andrea Hewitt and Helen Jenkins finished 2-3 at Stockholm.
You can depend on Andrew Starkyowicz for two things: to throw down hard on the bike and to throw down hard in an interview. Here’s Starky, throwing down hard.
There is comfort in numbers. Xtreme isn’t interested in numbers, or comfort. Only 238 took part, though almost 1000 hoped for a spot in the race.
David McNamee tops fellow Briton Joe Skipper and Emma Bilham of Switzerland edges Lucy Gossage of Great Britain at the Challenge Galway half.
Jackson smashed the women’s field on the bike and Andy Potts dueled Josh Amberger and Mark Bowstead before running away to win Coeur d’Alene 70.3.
Lionel Sanders crushed it on the bike and warded off all challengers with a race-best run while Holly Lawrence did the same to the women’s field at IM 70.3 Mt. Tremblant.
Vincent Luis held off Rostislav Pevtsov and Lucy Hall outsprinted fellow Brit Jessica Learmonth to win the ETU Sprint Triathlon European Championship.
Mirinda Carfrae broke the women’s race record with an 8:41:17 mark and Marino Vanhoenacker won his 8th men’s title in 8:04:18 at Ironman Austria-Kärnten.
Jesse Dunn and Kirsten Sass won the overall age group titles and Matt Lieto and Alycia Hill topped the elite fields at the USA Triathlon standard distance Duathlon Nationals.