Terenzo’s fate in selectors hands
31 Mar 2008
Spain’s Javier Gomez opened his 2008 world cup season with a satisfying victory in Mooloolaba today, finishing well ahead of last year’s winner Brad Kahlefeldt. The 2006 world champion Tim Don made it back to the world cup podium, edging out Kiwi Bevan Docherty for the bronze. Gomez overcame a surprisingly poor start. After the swim he was in 24th place out of the water and suffered a minor crash early in the bike. But he picked himself up and raced back into contention with the lead pack. After losing down the final stretch to Aussie last year, Gomez didn’t leave it up to a sprint this time around. After running together for the first five kilometers, Gomez made his move and broke away from his Aussie rival for the 8th world cup title of his career, moving him into a tie with Aussie great Miles Stewart for 4th all-time. Kahlefeldt couldn’t stay with the punishing Gomez pace and dropped back to second. But he was able to hang on for the silver. In the much anticipated fight for the final Kiwi Olympic spot, former two-time junior world champion and blueseventy athlete Terenzo Bozzone finished in 14th place, approximately 50 seconds ahead of Shane Reed who finished 25th. But both will have to wait and see what the New Zealand Olympic selectors decide. Terenzo came out of the swim in 4th place right behind fellow blueseventy athlete Marko Albert (Estonia). Another Olympic contender’s battle belongs to the British, who are still yet to decide which athletes deserve the remaining slots. In Mooloolaba, Olly Freeman (blueseventy) was the second Brit home and 6th overall. The next selection race for the Brits is the BG Triathlon World Cup in Madrid, Spain on the 25th May.
008 Mooloolaba BG Triathlon World Cup Elite Men Unofficial Results 1.5km swim, 40km bike, 10km run
Gold - JAVIER GOMEZ Spain 1:49:50
Silver - BRAD KAHLEFELDT Australia 1:50:14
Bronze - TIM DON Great Britain 1:50:24 4
BEVAN DOCHERTY New Zealand 1:50:27 5 - GREG BENNETT Australia 1:50:29 6 – OLIVER FREEMAN Great Britain 1:50:34 7 – PAUL TICHELAAR Canada 1:50:38 8 - BRENDAN SEXTON Australia 1:50:45 9 - SIMON THOMPSON Australia 1:50:53 10 - KYLE JONES Canada 1:50:58
Elite Women Unofficial Results 1.5km swim, 40km bike, 10km run
Gold - EMMA SNOWSILL Australia 2:00:44
Silver - VANESSA FERNANDES Portugal 2:01:22
Bronze - LISA NORDEN Sweden 2:02:07 4
LAURA BENNETT United States 2:02:37 5 - ANDREA WHITCOMBE Great Britain 2:02:45 6 - OLGA ZAUSAYLOVA Russian Federation 2:02:50 7 - ALEE SHARP Australia 2:02:52 8 - JURI IDE Japan 2:03:12 9 - EMMA MOFFATT Australia 2:03:16 10 - ANJA DITTMER Germany 2:03:33 ;