Spain scores Under23/Junior Mixed Relay World Championship win

by Erin Greene on 17 Sep, 2016 03:10 • Español

In a thrilling hour of racing that saw constant lead changes until the very last second, Spain proved victorious in the 2016 ITU Under23/Junior Mixed Relay World Championships, just edging Great Britain and Australia for the win. The British team took silver, followed by the Australians.

Each relay member completed a 250m swim, 5km bike and 1.6km run tagging off in order of woman-man-woman-man.

On the first leg, Spain’s Ines Santiago tagged off to teammate Antonio Serrat Seoane just seconds ahead of France, followed by Korea, but only 30 seconds separated a whopping 15 teams.

It was then Australia, New Zealand, Japan and France that took off on their bikes first in the second leg, with a cluster of teams on their heels. Although Mathew Baker (AUS), Tom Richard (FRA), and Tayler Reid (NZL) got their relays a small lead onto the run, Great Britain’s Ben Dijkstra ran through the field to put the Brits back in the mix, tagging off in third just seconds behind.

Although Australia, Great Britain, France and Japan got to their bikes first with the third relay member, the women’s Junior World Champion Taylor Knibb (USA) worked her prowess on the bike to bridge up. She then bypassed the competition just like she did when she won her world title to tag off to Austin Hindman, himself also the 2016 Junior World Champ.

Hindman hung onto the lead through the swim and onto the bike for a four-second lead over Australia and Spain.

After a disappointing showing in the men’s Under23 race, David Castro Fajardo (ESP) redeemed himself with a dominating performance in Mixed Relay, moving Spain into the lead on the bike as the anchor of the Spanish team. Calum Johnson (GBR) joined Castro in passing Hindman when their feet hit pavement.

Castro and Johnson ran stride for stride on the short run, but Castro was able to hold off the Brit in a sprint finish to take the World Championships for Spain. Great Britain flew over next for silver, followed by Australia in bronze.

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Related Event: 2016 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Cozumel

11 - 18 Sep, 2016 • event page • all results

Results: Elite Men
1.	Henri Schoeman	RSA	01:46:50
2.	Jonathan Brownlee	GBR	01:47:08
3.	Alistair Brownlee	GBR	01:47:08
4.	Richard Murray	RSA	01:47:35
5.	Mario Mola	ESP	01:47:36

Results: Elite Women
1.	Flora Duffy	BER	01:57:59
2.	Gwen Jorgensen	USA	01:59:16
3.	Charlotte McShane	AUS	01:59:25
4.	Helen Jenkins	GBR	01:59:28
5.	Ai Ueda	JPN	01:59:39

Results: U23 Men
1.	Jorik Van Egdom	NED	01:52:39
2.	Manoel Messias	BRA	01:53:00
3.	Bence Bicsák	HUN	01:53:02
4.	Simon Viain	FRA	01:53:12
5.	Tom Richard	FRA	01:53:13

Results: U23 Women
1.	Laura Lindemann	GER	01:59:18
2.	Leonie Periault	FRA	01:59:33
3.	Sandra Dodet	FRA	02:00:05
4.	Georgia Taylor-Brown	GBR	02:00:50
5.	Kaidi Kivioja	EST	02:01:07

Results: Junior Men
1.	Austin Hindman	USA	00:54:02
2.	Charles Paquet	CAN	00:54:12
3.	Ben Dijkstra	GBR	00:54:20
4.	Daniel Hoy	NZL	00:54:23
5.	Alex Yee	GBR	00:54:24

Results: Junior Women
1.	Taylor Knibb	USA	00:59:05
2.	Lisa Tertsch	GER	00:59:41
3.	Hye Rim Jeong	KOR	00:59:50
4.	Ines Santiago Moron	ESP	00:59:51
5.	Cecilia Santamaria Surroca	ESP	00:59:56

Results: Mixed U23-Junior Relay
1.	Team I Spain	ESP	01:06:29
2.	Team I Great Britain	GBR	01:06:33
3.	Team I Australia	AUS	01:06:37
4.	Team I United States	USA	01:06:43
5.	Team I Russia	RUS	01:06:46

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