Tim Don of Great Britain and Magali Tisseyre of Canada won the Ironman 70.3 South American Championship in Palmas, Brazil.
Don, Australian Leon Griffin and Nils Frommhold of Germany dueled together throughout the swim and bike legs before the 2006 ITU Olympic distance World Champion ignited his dominating run to hit the finish in 3:53:10, with a 3:39 margin of victory over Griffin and 6:02 over 3rd-place Canadian Cody Beals.
Tisseyre led German Anja Beranek with women’s-best swim and bike legs, then held on with a 5th-best 1:33:47 run to finish in 4:21:17, with a 3:47 margin of victory over Beranek and 6:45 over 3rd-place Linsey Corbin of the U.S.
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Men
Don led the swim in 26:00 which gave him a few seconds advantage over Brazilians Paolo Roberto Maciel da Silva and Bruno Matheus, Nils Frommhold, and Leon Griffin.
Through 64km, Don, Frommhold and Griffin formed a legal three-man pack at the front, trailed 3 and a half minutes later by a pack of six men including Ivan Raña of Spain, Brazilians Santiago Ascenco and Paulo Da Silva, David Breuer of Germany, Frank Silvestrin of Brazil, Cody Beals of Canada and Christian Hörper of Germany. After virtually equal race-best 2:05:15 and 2:05:16 bike splits, Don, Frommhold and Griffin arrived at T2 within 6 seconds of one another, followed by Beals, Ascenco, Raña Breuer and Da Silva two minutes arrears.
By 14km of the run, Don led Griffin by 2 minutes, Beals by 5:18, and Frommhold by 7:58.
At the finish, Don’s race-best 1:18:49 run in searing heat brought him to the line in 3:53:10 with a 3:39 lead on Griffin (3rd-best 1:22:33 run) and 6:02 on Beals (2nd-best 1:22:02 run).
Women
Tisseyre led the pro women with a 28:52 swim split which gave her a 57 seconds advantage on Giselle Bertucci of Brazil, 1:01 over Corbin, 1:02 on Beranek and 4:22-plus on Tine Holst of Denmark, Natascha Badmann of Switzerland, Ariane Monticeli of Brazil and Kirsty Jahn of Canada.
On her way to a women’s-best 2:14:36 bike split, Tisseyre led Beranek by a minute after 35km, 1:55 at 64km and 2 minutes at T2. Corbin dismounted in 3rd with a 7 minutes deficit, Badmann in 4th 12 minutes behind.
Tisseyre held her 2 minutes lead on Beranek at 4km, and then Beranek pulled out all the stops and closed the gap to 25 seconds at 12km. After that huge effort, Beranek was out of gas and she faded to a women’s 6th-fastest 1:35:35 run split to settle for the runner-up slot. Corbin ran a 4th-best 1:33:29 split to take 3rd, 2:58 behind Beranek, and Lisa Roberts posted a women's-best 1:25:51 half-marathon split to take 4th, 3:11 behind Corbin.
Ironman 70.3 South American Championship
Palmas, Brazil
April 10, 2016
S 1.2 mi. / B 56 mi. / R 13.1 mi.
Results
Men
1. Tim Don (GBR) 3:53:11
2. Leon Griffin (AUS) 3:56:49
3. Cody Beals (CAN) 3:59:14
4. Christian Hörper (GER) 4:02:21
5. Ivan Raña (ESP) 4:03:13
6. Paulo Roberto Maciel Da Silva (BRA) 4:04:24
7. David Breurer (GER) 4:05:33
8. Nils Frommhold (GER) 4:08:27
9. Santiago Ascenco (BRA) 4:08:43
10. Frank Silvestrin (BRA) 4:09:17
Women
1. Magali Tisseyre (CAN) 4:21:17
2. Anja Beranek (GER) 4:25:04
3. Linsey Corbin (USA) 4:28:02
4. Lisa Roberts (USA) 4:31:13
5. Kirsty Jahn (CAN) 4:34:56
6. Tine Holst (DEN) 4:37:30
7. Ariane Monticeli (BRA) 4:39:21
8. Natascha Badmann (SUI) 4:41:33
9. Gisele Bertucci (BRA) 4:55:29
10. Hanna Maksimava (BLR) 5:01:59
