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VerzbicaS ouTrunS
Top JuniorS for TiTle
American junior Lukas Verzbicas (New Lenox, Ill.) used a
strong kick finish over the final 400 meters to outrun Mario
Mola of Spain and claim the ITU Duathlon World Championship
junior title.
It was the first U.S. world title in an ITU event since Stephen
Duplinsky won gold in the men’s junior race at Duathlon
Worlds in Cornerbrook, Canada in 2006.
In the women’s junior race, Great Britain’s Sophie Coleman
defended her title. U.S athletes were paced by Kate Buss, who
finished 7th.
Verzbicas went out strong with the day’s fastest first run, a
5k in 14:41 that was just a second ahead of Mola.
ElitE MEn’s rEsults
PLace athLete country time
1 Jarrod Shoemaker USA 1:49:02
2 Damien Derobert FRA 1:49:02
3 Jurgen Dereere BEL 1:49:09
4 Sergio Silva POR 1:49:26
5 Victor Manue Del Corral Morales ESP 1:49:28
6 Raphael Baugh AUS 1:49:33
7 Richard Hobby GBR 1:49:44
8 Alessandro Fabian ITA 1:49:50
9 Lino Barruncho POR 1:49:52
10 Morimichi Iihoshi JPN 1:49:53
othEr u.s. finishErs
17 Josh Merrick USA 1:50:10
18 Chris Foster USA 1:50:36
20 Derek Oskutis USA 1:50:42
21 Matt Russell USA 1:50:51
24 David Thompson USA 1:51:04
photo courtesy of Christopher Didario / USA Triathlon
32 Justin Hurd USA 1:53:23
Shoemaker WinS World TiTle
ElitE woMEn’s rEsults
PLace athLete country time
1 Vendula Frintova CZE 2:08:18
No one can claim that Jarrod Shoemaker the 10k run, 40k bike, 5k run course. He 2 Sandra Levenez FRA 2:08:22
can’t kick it in to win down the stretch. The proved the doubters wrong.
3 Ana Burgos ESP 2:08:30
2008 Olympic triathlete from the United Alessandro Fabian of Italy won the
4 Ruth Van Der Meijden NED 2:08:40
5 Anne Haug GER 2:08:48
States did just that to claim the elite men’s U23 men’s title.
6 Andrea Steyn RSA 2:08:55
title at the 2009 ITU Duathlon World In the women’s elite race, first place
7 Evgenia Sukhoruchenkova RUS 2:09:04
Championship. went to Vendula Frintova of the Czech
8 Alexandra Louison FRA 2:09:11
It was Shoemaker’s second world title, Republic, who used her own kick to nip 9 Immaculada Pereiro ESP 2:09:15
after winning U23 triathlon gold at the 2005 Sandra Levenez of France by four seconds
10 Samantha Warriner NZL 2:09:26
ITU World Championship. in another exciting finish. The top
othEr u.s. finishErs
Coming into the event, Shoemaker was a American finish went to Molly McGaver,
16 Marlo McGaver USA 2:12:31
dark horse. He had a strong running resume, who produced the day’s fastest bike split
17 Uli Bromme USA 2:12:34
but having never raced a duathlon before, and finished 16th.
19 Anne Preisig USA 2:13:49
the jury was still out on whether he could Evgenia Sukhoruchenkova of Russia 20 Kathryn Kasischke USA 2:14:34
hang with the duathlon specialists over claimed the U23 women’s championship.
21 Heidi Sarna USA 2:15:12
22 Rachel Chambers USA 2:17:38
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