World class fields lined up in
Samorin, Slovakia, to chase world titles and medals in the 2022 World Triathlon
Long Distance Championships. The event was part of the 2022 World Triathlon
Multisport Championships Samorin which encompassed the Collins Cup and
Professional Triathlon Organisation (PTO) Age-Group races.
Pierre Le Corre (FRA) has earned the
World Triathlon Long Distance title in Samorin with an astonishing run to earn
the gold medal. Germany’s Florian Angert displayed a strong swim and bike
set-up and maintained a solid second position on the run to claim the silver
medal in the Long Distance Championships. It was a brilliant day for Germany with
Frederic Funk crossing the line to take bronze.
Lucy Charles-Barclay returned to
racing today after injury and showcased the perfect race to take the tape and
was crowned World Triathlon Long Distance champion in Slovakia. Emma
Pallant-Browne showed her class on the run to chase down second position and
was awarded the silver medal in the World Championships in Samorin. 2021 World
Triathlon Long Distance champion Sarissa de Vries took bronze in Samorin today.
Review the full results. https://triathlon.org/results/result/2022_world_triathlon_long_distance_championships_samorin/552892
Women's recap
In the 2022 World Triathlon Long
Course Championships, sixteen strong elite women lined up, to contest for the
title and medals in Samorin. Great Britain’s long course triathlon specialist,
Lucy Charles-Barclay led the women through the 2km swim and exited the water,
after opening up a sizeable gap on the field.
Charles-Barclay entered solo into
transition to commence the 80km bike portion of the long-distance world
championships.
Great Britain’s Rebecca Clarke,
Brazil’s Luisa Baptista, Sarissa de Vries of the Netherlands, Grace Thek of
Australia and Marjolaine Pierre of France exited the water together and moved
through into the first transition of the day, before heading out onto the 80km
bike course in Samorin, Slovakia.
Up front, Charles-Barclay was leading
the race but at the halfway point and around the technical turn, the British
triathlete tackled with her positioning around the corner enabling Clarke to
take the lead. It wasn’t long before Charles-Barclay powered back to lead the
race. de Vries pushed through into second position with Pierre in third.
Olympic medallist Lisa Norden appeared to be pushing through the field and
moving up.
Charles-Barclay and de Vries took
turns up front over the final stages of the bike course and very little
separated the two women as they approached their final transition of the day.
Pierre and Pallant-Browne were over
2minutes44seconds down on the leaders as they entered transition.
Charles-Barclay moved through to lead
the early stage of the run, knowing she had running sensation and fellow
British compatriot Pallant-Browne on the chase.
Thek of Australia was pushing the
pace in fourth and Baptista was moving through exceptionally well in fifth
place.
Charles-Barclay produced a perfect
set up across all three segments of the long-distance format, to take the tape
and be crowned champion in Samorin, with great emotion.
“I just can’t believe it! I obviously
wanted to come back and race and didn’t know exactly where I was training wise.
I had been going pretty well but you never really know until you get out there
and race. I knew I had to dig deep with Emma Pallant behind me. I don’t know
what the future holds but I am going to keep striving and digging and see how
big I can go.”
“I was really happy with the swim, it
was non-wetsuit, it suited me, it was pretty choppy so I knew I could get a
pretty good gap there so I went hard in the swim. Tried to go as fast as I
could through T1 and get that gap and then ride pretty hard. We had a pretty
strong tailwind on the way out and I wanted to save something for the way back.
Even with my little hiccup on the turnaround, I was like, it’s time to dig,
there’s a headwind on the way back, this is where it gets tough.”
“The sky is the limit really, I just
didn’t expect that today, so I feel it’s given me so much confidence and to
come back here and put it all together, it’s just really special,” said
Charles-Barclay.
Pallant-Browne showed just what she
is capable of across the 18-kilometre run, to storm down the finish chute and
be awarded the silver medal at the long-distance world championships and a
delighted de Vries, the 2021 long-distance champion, earned bronze to round out
the women’s podium in Samorin.
“Super special. At the start of the
week, we said goodbye to my Grandpa and this is the last place I wanted to be
here this week. I am just so happy to get on the podium.”
“I didn’t have a good swim, I felt
strong on the bike. I held it fairly solid and just enough to get second.”
“It’s always an honour to race with
her (Lucy Charles-Barclay),” said Pallant-Browne.
“It’s amazing to be here today as the
reigning champion, I did everything I could today to make it happen. The Brits
were just too fast today, I had to dig really really deep today. Gave
everything in the swim, on the bike and run so bronze is what we got. I am really
happy.” de Vries said.
Review the results.
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Results: Elite Women
1.Lucy Charles-Barclay GBR 03:34:17
2.Emma Pallant GBR 03:37:29
3.Sarissa De Vries NED 03:39:26
4.Grace Thek AUS 03:39:42
5.Luisa Baptista BRA 03:41:02
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