Triathlon Stockholm and Edmonton Championships

It appears that the main sponsors and the ITU finally are moving forward to evolve triathlon from runners to a swim, bike and run sport.  The courses, even that are flat, they can have many turns as it happened in Stockholm, or hilly as it will be the case in Edmonton.  This format is more appealing from the point of view of spectators (economy), competitors and skills for newcomers.  Auckland was the first one of these courses; Kitzbuhel was added but changed the course lately.  Biking takes years to improve as well as swimming and running, but let’s take a look at the last Auckland World Series to have an idea who the top 10 will be:

1	Javier	Gomez Noya	ESP		01:54:13	00:17:53	00:00:53	01:04:15	00:00:28	00:30:42
2	Jonathan	Brownlee	GBR		01:54:33	00:17:51	00:00:52	01:04:19	00:00:26	00:31:03
3	Aaron	Royle	AUS		01:55:49	00:18:02	00:00:54	01:04:07	00:00:29	00:32:16
4	Dan	Wilson	AUS		01:55:52	00:18:04	00:00:52	01:04:04	00:00:26	00:32:24
5	Ryan	Bailie	AUS		01:55:59	00:18:03	00:00:54	01:04:05	00:00:27	00:32:27
6	Ryan	Sissons	NZL		01:56:23	00:18:46	00:00:54	01:03:24	00:00:29	00:32:48
7	Vincent	Luis	FRA		01:56:30	00:18:02	00:00:53	01:04:08	00:00:29	00:32:55
8	Mario	Mola	ESP		01:56:36	00:18:24	00:00:51	01:05:43	00:00:27	00:31:09
9	Richard	Varga	SVK		01:56:37	00:17:47	00:00:55	01:04:20	00:00:30	00:33:02
10	Gregor	Buchholz	GER		01:56:39	00:18:49	00:00:51	01:05:18	00:00:26	00:31:12

We saw what the Brownlees did at Stockholm; they rode their bikes and ran as in training.  Alistair let Johnny enter first as a good sportsman; if you help the leader, the leader should let you win the stage (in this case Johnny has the chance of winning the series).  The chasing pack fought for the third place expecting that somebody would sacrifice to catch the Brownlees, but nothing happened and they fought for third.

Kudos to Sarah Groff who after eight years of competing is finding the gear needed to win; she won in Stockholm brilliantly.  I remembered her running in Ixtapa; she was coming from a swimming background after finishing College.

2007 Ixtapa ITU Aquathlon World Championships : May 12 2007 : Elite Women : Results

  

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Pos	First Name	Last Name	Country		Time	Run	T1	Swim	T2	Run
1	Sarah	Groff	USA		00:32:52	00:08:54	00:00:19	00:14:05	00:00:29	00:09:05