第17屆廣州三項鐵人錦標賽 – 新聞稿

 

The Asian Triathlon Championships are held over 2 days with the 3 Male Elite races (Junior, U23 and Elite) and Age group event been held today on May 2^nd and all the Elite Female races held on May 3^rd.

 

For the first time in his Triathlon career Andrew Wright from Hong Kong beat Lee Chi Wo by 2 seconds in the elite male category in Guangzhou this morning. Andrew finished 11^th and Daniel finished 12 position. This is the 17^th year of the event. 40 Triathletes from 15 Asian countries were competing in this event. The triathletes raced in heavy rain over a 2 loop (750M) lake swim and they then headed out onto a 6-lap very technical bike course (6.67k), which and this was followed by a 4 loop (2.5k) undulating run course.

 

After one lap of the swim, Andrew Wright was in 11^th position just ahead of Daniel. During the 2^nd lap Daniel dropped off the pace and came out of the water 1min behind Andrew in 20:02. Andrew just missed the main pack of 10 onto the bike and was left in no man’s land with 2 triathletes.

 

Daniel and Samuel Leung who were both in the pack chasing caught Andrew’s group on Lap 2. The lead pack including 3 top triathletes from Asia – R. Yamamoto and Tayama from Japan and Sapunov from Kaz., all worked together to make a lead of 2minutes onto the run.

 

Daniel and Andrew ran together for the whole 10k run with Andrew (34:48) out sprinting Daniel (34:51) to the finish.

 

With reference to qualifying for the Olympics in BEIJING, Daniel only lost 13 points to Andrew and he still leads Andrew by 263 points with 2 races to go.

 

In the Male U23 Ho Kin Fun and Dickson both had personal best races to finish 9^th and 14^th respectively.  

 

We are still waiting for the official times for the Male Juniors and Male U23.

 

Male Elite:

1    -        JPN        R.YAMAMOTO                     – 1:50:06

2    -        KAZ        D.SAPUNOV                        – 1:50:42

3    -        JPN        H.YUICHI                               – 1:51:23

11  -        HKG       A.WRIGHT                  – 1:54:27 (Points scored -183*)

12  -       HKG       DANIEL Lee                  – 1:54:29 (points scored -170*)

 

*quality of field points need to be added.