Stannard, May claim Aquathlon World Championships

by Paula Kim on 07 Sep, 2011 08:47 • Español

Competition at the Beijing Grand Final kicked off today with the Aquathlon. After a few hundred age-groupers christened the course, the elite, U23 and junior men and women began the ITU Aquathlon World Championships, consisting of a 2.5km run, 1km swim and ending with another 2.5km run.

Elite Men review
British veteran Richard Stannard stormed to his third Aquathlon World Championship with a convincing victory by 21 seconds over silver medallist Ran Alterman of Israel. Brazil’s Leandro Barbosa took the bronze.

Stannard and Alterman both went out with almost identical times in the first 2.5km run. But it was in the 1km swim in the Shisanling reservoir where Stannard made his move. He exited the water first as the only man to complete the swim in less than 13 minutes. With a comfortable lead in hand, Stannard closed out his third Aquathlon world title. He previously posted win in Lausanne in 2006 and Queenstown in 2003.

Elite Women review
Luxembourg’s Olympian Elizabeth May claimed her first ITU World Championship after easily winning the elite women’s Aquathlon. May finished more than a minute ahead of silver medallist Jessica Souza Santos of Brazil.

May propelled to the leader after opening the race with an 8 minute, 43 seconds 2.5km run. She followed that up with a 14:45 swim and then secured the Aquathlon world title with a finishing 10:50 run.

In the Under23 category, Iuri Vinuto Josino of Brazil won the men’s title while Carlos Alfredo Perez of Venezuela took the silver. Amongst the Under23 women, Croatia’s Sara Vilic won by a 9-second margin over Sweden’s Linnea Holmertz who came across second for the silver. Vilic’s teammate Daria Pletikapa made it to Croatians on the podium by winning bronze.

Amongst the juniors, David Nunez of Mexico won the men’s championship, by 11 seconds over Italy’s Delian Stateff. Nunez’s teammate Octavio Oliveros took the bronze.

In the junior women’s race, Mexico again scored two on the podium as Paola Diaz led a Mexican gold-silver sweep. Diaz claimed the junior world championship while Adriana Barraza took the silver. Hungary’s Eszter Pap made the podium for the second straight year with bronze after her silver medal performance last year.

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07 Sep, 2011 • event page • all results

Results: 16-19 Male AG
1.	Brent Demarest	USA	00:32:50
2.	Gareth Daniel	GBR	00:33:26
3.	Hayden Moorhouse	NZL	00:33:54
4.	Amin Osama	NZL	00:34:31
5.	Samuel Dally	AUS	00:34:35

Results: 16-19 Female AG
1.	Rafelix Naomi Martinez	VEN	00:38:12
2.	Taylor Fogg	USA	00:38:37
3.	Tamyres Domingos	BRA	00:42:24
4.	Brittany Warly	CAN	00:43:33

Results: 20-24 Male AG
1.	Hamish Hammond	NZL	00:32:54
2.	Andre Lemmi	BRA	00:33:12
3.	Thiago Pombo Lopez	BRA	00:34:52
4.	Andrew Lowndes	RSA	00:34:57
5.	Justin Brennan	AUS	00:36:37

Results: 20-24 Female AG
1.	Rebecca Clarke	NZL	00:35:58
2.	Natalie Scadden	CAN	00:37:45
3.	Anna Anderson	GBR	00:38:28
4.	Audrey Lachapelle	CAN	00:41:03
5.	Jade Nicola Hooke	RSA	00:44:56

Results: 25-29 Male AG
1.	Florian Schafer	FRA	00:32:31
2.	Mario Salvador Rubio Ponce De Leon	MEX	00:32:34
3.	Josh Dew	AUS	00:32:54
4.	Thomas Winkelmann	GER	00:33:57
5.	Huw Jack Brassington	GBR	00:36:12

Results: 25-29 Female AG
1.	Tanya Dromgool	NZL	00:36:56
2.	Lauren Dugall	RSA	00:38:02
3.	Emma Rathbone	NZL	00:39:34
4.	Candice-Jane Morrison	RSA	00:40:19
5.	Yasue Nakahara	JPN	00:40:29

Results: 30-34 Male AG
1.	Ademir Paulino	BRA	00:34:10
2.	Pieter Dehart	USA	00:34:17
3.	Martin Henrich	GER	00:34:21
4.	Jason Britton	CAN	00:34:49
5.	Tiago Borges	BRA	00:35:38

Results: 30-34 Female AG
1.	Christine Lutsch	GBR	00:38:47
2.	Elizabeth Hefley	USA	00:38:50
3.	Jennifer Dehart	USA	00:40:35
4.	Katie Henderson	GBR	00:41:03
5.	Olivia Trilce Mimila Prost	MEX	00:41:17

Results: 35-39 Male AG
1.	Mateo Pesquer Campos	ESP	00:31:50
2.	Eduardo Beretta	BRA	00:32:50
3.	Deon Coetzee	RSA	00:34:45
4.	Clint Van Beveren	AUS	00:35:05
5.	Darren Westbrook	AUS	00:35:29

Results: 35-39 Female AG
1.	Lauren Robertson	AUS	00:38:26
2.	Erika Binger	USA	00:41:10
3.	Simonne Robbers	NZL	00:42:42
4.	Eva-Marie Bury	NZL	00:43:06
5.	Sandrine Tete	TAH	00:43:50

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