World Triathlon

It was to be another classic showdown in the women’s PTS2 Paralympic races on Monday morning in Paris, and emerging on top of the best in the business was USA’s Hailey Danz, scoring her first Paralympic gold in fine style.

Out of the water right alongside her major challengers Veronica Yoko Plebani, Melissa Stockwell and Allysa Seely, it was Danz’s incredible bike power that proved decisive, opening up the huge gap that she knew she would need on the run.

Out onto the final 5km segment, Italian star Plebani tried to reel the American in but was thrilled to hold off the defending champion Seely and secure silver after her bronze in Tokyo, Seely having to settle for an exhausted bronze.

Full report to follow.