TRIATHLON 2015 ยท GOLD COAST 36
BROWNLEE GETS
HIS GROOVE BACK
JONATHAN TALLIES SECOND CONSECUTIVE WIN
Great Britain's Jonathan Brownlee returned to the
top of the podium with a convincing victory in the
Gold Coast, delivering back-to-back Series wins.
He was the race master, rallying the lead group on
the bike to set himself up with the winning break he
needed, stopping the clock at 1:46:53 and earning
a 10th career WTS win. It was the first time since
winning Yokohama and Madrid back in 2013 that
Brownlee had won consecutive WTS races.
"At the start of the season I had an awful race, it was
a little bit of a shock really because I got a lot of things
wrong so I knew I did not want to make those mistakes
again," said Brownlee.
In almost a repeat of the 2009 ITU Junior Men's
World Championship race, Spain's Mario Mola
claimed silver with one of the fastest 10km run splits
in ITU history. In 2009, Mola beat Brownlee to take
the junior men's World Championship title. Mola's
compatriot Javier Gomez rounded out the podium,
and in a great day for the men's Spanish team,
Vicente Hernandez came in fourth.
