It was only a matter of weeks since her Olympic triumph in Tokyo, but Flora Duffy continued her journey into the triathlon stars on Saturday afternoon as she powered to the Groupe Copley World Triathlon Championship Series Montreal gold.

The format was new, but the result strangely familiar, another big chapter in the ongoing story of the 2021 world title chase as the Bermudian came through the first two elimination races and then held off the best in the world to secure a first WTCS gold since 2018 and vital points that will take her to the top of the Maurice Lacroix Series Ranking with one race to come.