TRIATHLON 2016 I STOCKHOLM 106
BROWNLEES BACK ON TOP IN
STOCKHOLM
ALISTAIR RETURNS TITLE TO BROWNLEE NAME
Executing yet another phenomenal run, Great Britain's
Alistair Brownlee recaptured the title at the 2016
Vattenfall World Triathlon Stockholm. First earning the
crown in 2013, his winning performance meant that the
Stockholm gold would return back to the Brownlee name
as it had now been claimed by Alistair or younger brother
Jonathan Brownlee four out of the five years.
Jonathan Brownlee stayed on his hip until the final
metres to claim silver while France's Pierre Le Corre ran
his way to bronze.
Alistair said, "It was tough, I mean it was a good course,
it was technical. It was proper racing, you can make it
difficult even when you are in a group. We did that, we
tried to break it up a little bit and I thought we did that.
I felt good on the run, but then Jonny started putting
some digs in, but in first two kilometres I felt okay. I knew
that my legs were not sparkly and feeling really zoomy,
but I just thought that if I could toughen it out on the last
kilometre really hard that would be my best chance."
Sticking with Alistair right until the final metres, Jonny
finished the day with silver, meaning that after Stockholm
the Brownlees had gone 1-2 on the WTS podium six
times. They also had shared the WTS podium a total of
11 times.
