Ashleigh Gentle of Australia followed up her big win at the WTS Grand Final on the Gold Coast last weekend with a decisive victory over Non Stanford of Great Britain at the Beijing International Triathlon.
Jonathan Brownlee of Great Britain escaped getting shut out of a win for the first season in years with a victory against a small but strong field at the Olympic distance Beijing International Triathlon.
Women
Lucy Hall led the swim with an 18:26 split that was 3 seconds ahead of fellow Brit Non Stanford and 1:09 ahead of Ashleigh Gentle, giving the Britons a one minute-plus lead on a pack also including Andrew Hewitt of New Zealand, Gentle, Barbara Riveros of Chile, Paula Findlay of Canada, Alicia Kaye of the U.S., Sophie Corbidge of New Zealand , Erin Storie of the U.S. and Claire Davis of Australia.
Hall posted a women’s 3rd-best bike split of 1:04:59 and led the women into T2, while Gentle, powered by a women’s-best 1:04:29 bike split, bridged up to Stanford . Gentle then powered to a decisive victory with a women’s-best 37:35 run. Gentle finished in 2:05:55 with a 1:57 margin of victory over Stanford and 3:17 over Hall, who was 16 seconds ahead of 4th place Barbara Riveros of Chile.
Men
Jonny Brownlee, who calls the 2018 season the worst of his career with no wins for the first time in a decade, redeemed himself with a win at the Beijing International Triathlon.
Jonny, whose best results prior this season were a 2nd at the Lausanne World Cup, a 4th at WTS Hamburg, a 5th at WTS Edmonton and a 7th at the Commonwealth Games, was in 3rd place and 10 seconds back of Henri Schoeman of South Africa after the swim. He dropped to 4th at the end of the bike leg behind Kristian Blummenfelt of Norway, Schoeman and Ben Kanute of the U.S. On the run, Jonny regained his old form, jetted past the three men in front of him and with a race-best 32:52 run split and won in a time of 1:51:37.
Blummenfelt, who ran 33:05, finished 2nd in 1:51:46, and defending Beijing champion Schoeman ran 33:15 and took the final place on the podium in 1:51:58. Two-time Olympic gold medalist Alistair Brownlee of Great Britain took 4th in 1:54:08 one week after suffering a disqualification at the Grand Final for swimming on the wrong side of the buoy and three weeks after finishing 2nd at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in South Africa.
Beijing International Triathlon
Beijing, China
September 23, 2018
S 1.5k / B 40k / R 10k NON DRAFTING
Results
Women
1. Ashleigh Gentle (AUS) 2:05:55 S 19:35 T1 3:27 B 1:04:29 T2 00:50 R 37:35
2. Non Stanford (GBR) 2:07:52 S 18:29 T1 3:40 B 1:05:26 T2 00:55 R 39:24
3. Lucy Hall (GBR) 2:09:12 S 18:26 T1 3:30 B 1:04:59 T2 00:52 R 41:27
4. Barbara Riveros (CHL) 2:09:28 S 19:39 T1 3:39 B 1:04:55 T2 00:58 R 40:19
5. Radka Vodickova (CZE) 2:10:07 S 20:26 T1 3:58 B 1:05:24 T2 39:17
6. Paula Findlay (CAN) 2:10:32 S 19:43 T1 3:52 B 1:05:44 T2 1:00 R 40:14
7. Sophie Corbidge (NZL) 2:12:00 S 19:36 T1 3:42 B 1:06:02 T2 00:57 R 41:44
8. Andrea Hewitt (NZL) 2:13:10 S 19:30 T1 3:50 B 1:06:26 T2 00:50 R 42:37
9. Alicia Kaye (CAN) 2:15:21 S 19:40 T1 3:58 B 1:05:39 T2 1:06 R 45:00
10. Claire Davis (AUS ) 2:25:15 S 19:46 T1 4:27 B 1:13:54 T2 1:29 R 45:42
Men
1. Jonathan Brownlee (GBR) 1:51:37 S 17:19 T1 3:10 B 57:32 T2 00:46 R 32:52
2. Kristian Blummenfelt (NOR) 1:51:46 S 17:54 T1 3:15 B 56:45 T2 00:49 R 33:05
3. Henri Schoeman (RSA) 1:51:58 S 17:09 T1 3:21 B 57:30 T2 00:45 R 33:15
4. Alistair Brownlee (GBR) 1:54:08 S 17:50 T1 3:13 B 58:14 T2 00:54 R 35:24
5. Ben Kanute (USA) 1:54:09 S 17:17 T1 3:15 B 57:25 T2 00:50 R 35:24
6. Eric Lagerstrom (USA) 1:55:32 S 17:56 T1 3:27 B 57:48 T2 00:51 R 35:31
7. Cam Dye (USA) 1:56:36 S 17:48 T1 3:16 B 56:46 T2 00:54 R 37:54
8. Jason West (USA) 1:57:18 S 18:39 T1 3:18 B 59:21 T2 00:48 R 35:13
9. Max Neumann (AUS) 1:57:25 S 17:52 T1 3:18 B 659:38 T2 00:59 R 35:39
10. Brian Duffy (USA) 2:00:21 S 18:37 T1 3:45 B 1:00:13 T2 00:55 R 36:53
