Russian Women and Men Triathletes Strike Gold at World Championships
The Russian team had an outstanding performance at the ITU Elite Team Triathlon World Championships in Hungary over this weekend in preparation for the upcoming individual world championships that are scheduled to be held in Hamburg less than three weeks away.
The championships started with the women’s event. Italy was hoping to become the first country to win two years in a row and got off to a quick start in the opening leg of the event. But the Russian and Ukrainian teams came up in quick pursuit. Russian Elena Matveeva had the quickest run-split of the day to give an insurmountable lead to the anchor, Anastasia Yatsenko to secure the gold medal with a winning time of 1 hour, 5 minutes and 5 seconds to finish 16 seconds ahead of the Ukraine team.
On the men’s side, most expected the Spanish team to dominate, with German also having a strong shot at the title. However, Russian star Alexander Brukhankov, a two time world cup finisher this year, took off in the final leg and captured the championship for Russian with a time of 58 minutes, 18 seconds.
This is the second time a country has won gold in both the women and men’s events. In 2003 Australia was the first country to do so.
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