Vincent Luis of France and Lucy Hall of Great Britain won the ETU Sprint Triathlon European Championship in Chateauroux, France.

Men

Luis broke out fast with a race-best 8:32 swim just ahead of Russian ITU vets Dmitry and Igor Polyanskiy. Luis then hung near the front of a small draft-legal bike pack, and gained a crucial 6 seconds over top rival Rostislav Pevtsov of Azerbaijan with a swifter T2 transition. As Luis and Pevtsov broke away on the run into a duel for the win, the Frenchman held on to his T2 lead with a 2nd-best 15:33 5k run to finish in 51:59 with a 7 seconds margin on runner-up Pevtsov. Grant Sheldon of Great Britain fought off Léo Bergere of France by 1 second for the final spot on the podium, 14 seconds back of Pevtsov.

Women

Jessica Learmonth and Lucy Hall of Great Britain broke into the lead on the swim with 9:09 splits, and continued to increase their lead to over a minute by working together on the bike leg with race-best 28:42 and 28:44 splits. While Cassandre Beaugrand of France cut the Brits’ lead by 57 and 59 seconds with a race-best 17:45 5k run, she fell 43 seconds short of the front running duo and had to settle for 3rd. At the finish, Hall’s 18:42 5k split was 2 seconds better than Learmonth, and the 2012 Olympic domestíque edged Learmonth by 1 second for the victory.

ETU Sprint Triathlon European Championship
Chateauroux, France
June 26, 2016
S 750m /B 20k / R 5k

Results

Men

1. Vincent Luis (FRA) 51:59
2. Rostislav Pevtsov (AZE) 52:06
3. Grant Sheldon (GBR) 52:20
4. Léo Bergere (FRA) 52:20
5. Oleksiy Syutkin (UKR) 52:23

Women

1. Lucy Hall (GBR) 57:48
2. Jessica Learmonth (GBR) 57:49
3. Cassandre Beaugrand (FRA) 58:32
4. Kaidi Kivioja (EST) 58:52
5. Audrey Merle (FRA) 58:54