Pallant-Browne Dominates at Luxembourg 70.3

Emma Pallant-Brown of Great Britain combined a tied-for-women’s second-best 28:41 swim, a second-fastest 2:25:55 bike split and a by-far women’s-best 1:19:32 half marathon to finish in 4:17:43 with a 7:24 margin over Lydia Dant of Great Britain and 10:39 over 3rd-place finisher Marta Bernardi of Italy.

Women

Justine Mathieux of France led the swim with a 28:36 split which gave her a 5 seconds lead on Pallant-Browne and Nina Derron of Switzerland and 35 seconds on Marta Bernardo of Italy.

After women’s–best 2:22:33 bike split, Lydia Dant overcame a 3:19 deficit after her 8th best 3:19 swim split to arrive first at T2, 2 mseconds ahead of Pallant-Browne and 5:57 ahead of Marta Bernardi, 6:00 ahead of Diede Diederiks of Netherlands and 7:03 ahead of Nina Derron of Switzerland.

Whereupon Pallant-Browne jetted away from the field on her way to a race-best 1:19:32 half marathon to finish in 4:17:43 with a 7:24 margin over Lydia Dant (1:26:31 run split) and 10:39 over third place finisher Marta Bernardi (1:24:04 run split).

Ironman 70.3 Luxembourg
Luxembourg
June 19, 2022
S 1.2 mi. / B 56 mi. / R 13.1 mi.

Women

1. Emma Pallant-Browne (GBR) S 28:41 T1 1:38 B 2:25:55 T2 1:59 R 1:19:32 TOT 4:17:43
2. Lydia Dant (GBR) S 31:55 T1 1:44 B 2:22:33 T2 2:27 R 1:26:31 TOT 4:25:07
3. Marta Bernardi (ITA) S 29:11 T1 1:49 B 2:31:09 T2 2:10 R 1:24:04 TOT 4:28:22
4. Daniela Kleiser (GER) S 38:12 T1 1:59 B 2:27:421 T2 2:53 R 1:23:36 TOT 4:34:19
5. Dimity-Lee Duke (AUS) S 31:58 T1 1:44 B 2:35:32 T2 2:31 R 1:25:27 TOT 4:37:11
6. Nina Derron (SUI) S 28:41 T1 1:35 B 2:32:59 T2 2:16 R 1:40:51 TOT 4:46:20
7. Hannah Arlom (GER) S 31:45 T1 2:06 B 2:36:04 T2 2:47 R 1:38:01 TOT 4:50:40
8. Laura Chacon Biebach (GER) S 35:37 T1 2:17 B 2:39:08 T2 2:35 R 1:38:04 TOT 4:57:38
9. Annika Timm (GER) S 35:32 T1 1:28 B 2:49:19 T2 3:19 R 2:11:16 TOT 5:40:53