Digital magazines from the International Triathlon Union (ITU) and the World Triathlon Series
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PTS4 Kelly Elmlinger crushed the women's PTS4 bike segment, leaving Marta Frances Gomez in chase. Australia's Sally Pilbeam also began well but her challenge faded on the bike, and after USA's Elmlinger put together an outstanding 20m35s final 5km to take the tape by 3.5 minutes, Frances was able to edge a tight finish after running down Germany's Eike Van Engelen. Pierre-Antoine Baele continued to push closer to his somewhat untouchable teammate Alexis Hanquinquant in the men's race, the Paralympic Champion may not have been at full fitness but was only able to finally pull clear over the closing stages as Baele finished 7 seconds back, Hideki Uda (JPN) over two minutes back for the bronze. PTS5 There was late drama in the men's PTS5 race after Stefan Daniel (CAN) had set the early pace before Chris Hammer (USA) and Ronan Cordeiro (BRA) looked to stretch things out up front. Martin Schulz then took control, but there was disaster for the German after he miscounted the laps and flew through T2 as his rivals racked their bikes, Hammer left to again take control on the final run and pull away from the Brazilian running his way into silver, the Canadian with bronze. Somewhat more predictable was the sight of Grace Norman taking the women's gold, the margin of victory over Claire Cashmore (GBR) close to two minutes after two of her strongest run segments. Canada's Kamylle Frenette produced the second-fastest run of the day to win bronze. PTVI Germany's Anja Renner underlined her huge potential in the visually impaired class, closing the gap to Ukraine's Vita Oleksiuk as Annouck Curzillat (FRA) had a great transition to hit the bike segment out front. Zhoomart and Renner gave chase and it was an outstanding bike that made the difference followed by the fastest split by almost a minute. Only Francesca Tarantello could hold a torch to her on the final run, the Italian finishing with bronze, Annouck Curzillat with bronze after serving three penalties. The men's race saw USA's Kyle Coon first out with Satoru Yoneoka, but was slowly reeled in by Britain's Dave Ellis on the bike segment. Disaster for Coon as he miscounted the run laps and came down the blue carpet too early, Ellis then coming home for the gold ahead of Australia's Sam Harding, Owen Cravens with the bronze. 115 contents