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FUN FACTS WINNING MARGINS, SPLITS AND DEFICITS * * Please note records are not absolute with different conditions and lengths of courses. MARGINS DEFICIT SPLITS The closest finish in the men's Olympic race has been six seconds, which was won by Jan Frodeno (GER) over Simon Whitfield (CAN) in Beijing 2008, and is also the same time that passed between Alistair Brownlee crossed the finish line in first in Rio 2016 over his brother Jonnathan. 6s The largest winning margin in the men's triathlon is only 13 seconds, which was Simon Whitfield (CAN) over Stefan Vuckovic (GER) in Sydney 2000. 13s The closest finish in the women's Olympic race was in London between Nicola Spirig (SUI) and Lisa Norden (SWE). It was so close it came down to a photo finish to determine who won. .01s The largest winning margin was Emma Snowsill (AUS) over Vanessa Fernandes (POR) with a whopping 67 seconds. 67s 18:16 29:07 33:16 Lucy Hall (GBR) has the fastest female swim at the Olympics, with 18:16 at London, which was with a wetsuit. Richard Varga (SVK) has the fastest male swim with a 16:56 also at London and the only person to break 17 mins for the swim, done with a wetsuit. which all happened at London. Alistair Brownlee (GBR) has the fastest run split of 29:07 in London and Emma Snowsill (AUS) ran 33:16 in Beijing. Four men have run under 30 minutes at the Olympics, which all happened at London. In order of Olympic year, the men's winning margins have been 6, 13, 8, 6 and 11 seconds making the average winning margin 8.8 seconds. For the Women, and again in order of Olympic year, the winning margins have been 40, 2, 7, 67 and 0 so average is 23 seconds. 8.8s 23s In 2004, Kate Allen (AUT) was 173 seconds down coming out of T2 and went on to win. Simon Whitfield (CAN) was 68 seconds down in Sydney leaving T2 and in 25th place and went on to win. In Rio, though, both Olympic champions had fantastic swims, with Gwen Jorgensen only 12 seconds behind the leaders out of the water, and Alistair Brownlee the fourth one out of the water. 68s 173s 16:56 153 - World Triathlon Media Guide Tokyo 2020