Digital magazines from the International Triathlon Union (ITU) and the World Triathlon Series
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Hanquinquant can't be caught in PTS4 The 29-year-old Liam Twomey had a six-second lead over Alexis Hanquinquant out of the swim in the men's PTS4 race, Antonio Franko of Croatia and Pierre-Antoine Baele (FRA) together just over half a minute further back. Twomey was then able to hold on to Hanquinquant for the opening stages of the bike, Jeremy Peacock of Australia three minutes back, but as the bike neared its conclusion, Baele was getting ever closer to Twomey and Franko 14 seconds behind him. As soon as he hit the run, there was no stopping Hanquinquant in his pursuit of another consummate world title display, Baele exerting his control over the silver medal position 30 seconds off his compatriot and Franko moving into bronze as Twomey fell back. Schulz reclaims PTS5 world title The PTS5 were the third category into action, Filipe Marques of Portugal leading out of the water but then having to serve a penalty for drafting that ended any hopes he had of a medal. Stefan Daniel had a narrow advantage over Martin Schulz and Ronan Cordeiro (BRA) at that stage, but it was Schulz to the front of the bike on lap one, Daniel right with him, Hungary's Bence Mocsari 40 seconds back with the American Chris Hammer for company. Hammer had managed to move a full 30 seconds ahead of the Hungarian by the end of the fourth lap and it was in third position where he stayed for an excellent bronze. Up ahead, Schulz was able to hold off Canada's Daniel to ensure he would be taking yet another brilliant world title back to Germany. Ellis defends PTVI world title Jose Luiz Garcia Serrano was the first man out of the water followed by Antoine Perel and Kyle Coon, but the Spaniard slowed in T1 allowing USA's Coon a small advantage out of transition and onto the 20km bike. Dave Ellis was a minute back after a good swim and slick transition, Thibaut Rigaudeau a further 30 seconds back at this stage. Coon looked to take charge of the bike but slipped back as Ellis and Rigaudeau looked to set up a grandstand finish, Perel was tucked in on the final climb just a few metres back. Rigaudeau led Ellis in by a whisker, but the Brit and his guide Luke Pollard then began to exert control over the run, putting 10 seconds over the French over the first loop and then extending that lead all the way to the tape, Rigaudeau taking silver and Perel with bronze. 122 contents