Sweden's Andreas Svanebo secures fourth Winter Triathlon European Championship title
Sweden’s Andreas Svanebo claimed his fourth European Championship title at the 2012 Valsesia ETU Winter Triathlon European Championships. The victory is all the more sweeter following a spate of missed races in the winter triathlon series due to injury.
Svanebo finished in a time of 1:20:47 ahead of Italy’s Daniel Antonioli and Nicolas Lebrun of France.
Full race results and timings can be found here
There was a surprise winner in the elite women’s race as Helena Erbenova of the Czech Republic claimed the European Championship title in her maiden race.
Erbenova finished in 1:37:55 ahead of defending champion Borghild Løvset (NOR) and Andrea Huser (SUI).
Full race results and timings can be found here
Russian Pavel Yakimov was victorious in the U23 men’s race and Romana Slavinec of Austria is the new U23 Women Winter Triathlon European Champion.
There was double Russian success in the junior races as Pavel Eliseev and Tatiana Loginova secured the Junior Winter Triathlon European Championship titles.
The final day saw the age group athletes take to the course as well as the excitement of the mixed relay. Team Norway achieved top honours with Russia less than a minute behind to take silver. Team Austria was close behind for bronze.
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Results: U23 Women | |||
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1. | Romana Slavinec | AUT | 01:44:07 |
2. | Tone Dalen | NOR | 01:58:35 |
3. | Margarita Ovsyannikova | RUS | 02:14:09 |
Results: U23 Men | |||
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1. | Pavel Yakimov | RUS | 01:25:01 |
2. | Pavel Khanzhin | RUS | 01:29:49 |
3. | Martin Husek | CZE | 01:32:01 |
4. | Julian Erhardt | GER | 01:33:45 |
5. | Felix Waldhuber | AUT | 01:34:25 |
Results: Junior Women | |||
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1. | Tatiana Loginova | RUS | 01:14:02 |
2. | Tatiana Vancova | SVK | 01:28:15 |
3. | Ilaria Titone | ITA | 01:37:41 |
Results: Junior Men | |||
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1. | Pavel Eliseev | RUS | 00:57:12 |
2. | Zhorzh Basyuk | RUS | 00:59:09 |
3. | Alessandro Saravalle | ITA | 01:01:34 |
4. | Didac Marza Bedos | ESP | 01:08:04 |
5. | Guglielmo Hinrichsen | ITA | 01:12:53 |
Results: Elite Women | |||
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1. | Helena Karásková | CZE | 01:37:55 |
2. | Borghild Løvset | NOR | 01:41:32 |
3. | Andrea Huser | SUI | 01:43:57 |
4. | Yulia Surikova | RUS | 01:48:48 |
5. | Simone Steinecker | AUT | 01:51:17 |
Results: Elite Men | |||
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1. | Andreas Svanebo | SWE | 01:20:47 |
2. | Daniel Antonioli | ITA | 01:21:22 |
3. | Nicolas Lebrun | FRA | 01:21:52 |
4. | Maxim Kuzmin | RUS | 01:23:26 |
5. | Jon Erguin Dorronsoro | ESP | 01:24:44 |
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