Chicago World Age Group Champs

Written by BTS Admin

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September 23, 2015

It has been 11 months since a discussion along the lines of ‘Wouldn’t it be great to see if we could get several BTS people to qualify for the World Champs next year?’. Since then, the club has seen British and European Champions and medalists, 70.3 Champs, the biggest turn out for local races in years and a very healthy influx of new members.

In the end, something like 13 members have raced in GB colours, and after a summer of qualifiers, rolldown processes, kit buying and flight booking, 7 of those 13 joined a GB Age Group team of over 500 who made their way to Chicago for the ITU World Triathlon Grand Final. Racing in the same venue as the Elites, they did BTS proud, managing to all finish safely (sometimes in rather hot weather) and avoid over doing the US sized food portions in the run up to race day.

Special mention to Julia Hodkinson, who always likes to get her monies worth, so actually raced the Aquathlon (Weds), Sprint (Thurs) and Standard (Sat) races, so has an awful lot of official photography to go through. 🙂

Results for all three events are below. with some selected images too.

Aquathlon (750m/5km)

Name	Cat	Cat Pos	Time	Swim	T1	Run
Julia	F5559	10	0:43:21	0:14:58	0:04:03	0:24:21

Sprint (750m/20k/5km)

Name	Cat	Cat Pos	Time	Swim	T1	Bike	T2	Run
Martyn	M3539	53	1:12:12	0:13:49	0:03:37	0:31:04	0:03:02	0:20:42
Steve	M5054	85	1:20:37	0:16:33	0:04:01	0:32:26	0:02:59	0:24:40
Julia	F5559	12	1:21:22	0:15:13	0:04:16	0:32:43	0:03:00	0:26:11
Sue	F4549	72	1:31:21	0:15:20	0:04:49	0:37:38	0:03:49	0:29:47

Standard (1500m/37km/10.6k)

Name	Cat	Cat Pos	Time	Swim	T1	Bike	T2	Run
Paul	M4044	30	2:08:03	0:21:52	0:04:11	0:56:11	0:03:11	0:42:40
David	M5054	79	2:26:34	0:29:13	0:04:15	1:00:46	0:02:59	0:49:44
Julia	F5559	21	2:36:14	0:26:57	0:04:29	1:05:16	0:03:36	0:55:57
Lesley	M6064	22	2:56:24	0:29:49	0:04:48	1:19:36	0:03:47	0:58:26