Le Corre, Charles-Barclay Earn World Triathlon Long Distance Crowns
Men's Race Recap
Pierre Le Corre of France overwhelmed Florian Angert of Germany and the rest of the men’s field with a dominating run that gave him a 2:14 margin for the gold medal at the World Triathlon Long Distance Championship on Samorin, Slovakia. Le Corre unleashed a 57:45 split for the 18-kilometer run that was 3:11 better than runner-up Angert and gave Le Corre a comfortable margin of victory.
Le Corre and South African Jamie Riddle posted 24:44 and 24:45 splits to open a half minute lead on Angert and Christophe De Keyser of Belgium. Le Corre and Riddle hit the super-flat 80 kilometer bike leg together until Angert – who won at this venue in the 2021 The Championship race – took the lead.
Starting the bike, Australia’s Tim Reed had a mechanical issue and was forced to retire.
Whereupon Angert, Le Corre and Riddle settled in formation. But after his strong start, Riddle fell back to 11th by the halfway mark of the bike and Frederic Funk of Germany rode up and took over 3rd place, with Gregory Barnaby of Italy in 4th and Clement Mignon of France in 5th. Filling out the chase pack, Christophe De Keyser of Belgium was 6th, Denis Chevrot of France 7th. Robert Kallin of Sweden was 8th and Riddle found more energy to take 9th.
Angert held on to lead the field into T2, Le Corre, who took 2nd at the European Championship in Munich last weekend, took the lead by the 4th kilometer of the run. Angert maintained a strong pace in second place, and Frederic Funk got on the gas and advanced from 7th to 3rd place with Gregory Barnaby settling in at 4th place.
On his way to a by-far best 57:45 run, Corre took complete charge of the race and finished in 3:11:15 with a 2:14 margin on Angert and 4:25 on third-place Funk.
Women's Race Recap
Lucy Charles-Barclay returned to racing after injury and was crowned World Triathlon Long Distance champion in Slovakia. Emma Pallant-Browne showed her strength on the run to chase down second position to take the silver medal and 2021 World Triathlon Long Distance champion Sarissa de Vries took bronze.
Charles-Barclay broke out front with a 26:12 swim split that gave her a 4:29 advantage over chief rival Emma Pallant-Browne, then gave back 2 minutes to Pallant-Browne’s 2nd-best 1:56:49 bike split. The two British contenders then ran to equal one hour and five minutes splits for the 18-kilometer run, giving Charles-Barclay a 3:12 margin of victory.
After losing 1:41 in the swim, Sarissa De Vries of Netherlands made up two minutes with a 1:56:33 bike split. However, De Vries fell back 5 minutes with a 1:10:01 on the 18k run and settled for 3rd place, 5:09 behind the winner.
Great Britain’s Rebecca Clarke, Brazil’s Luisa Baptista, de Vries of the Netherlands, Grace Thek of Australia and Marjolaine Pierre of France exited the water together one minute behind Charles-Barclay. Up front, Charles-Barclay was leading but halfway around one technical turn, the British triathlete bobbled with her positioning, enabling Clarke to take the lead. Mot long later, Charles-Barclay powered back to the lead. De Vries then pushed into second with Pierre in third. Then 2012 Olympic silver medalist Lisa Norden was pushing through the field and moving up.
Charles-Barclay and de Vries took turns up front over the final stages of the bike and the two women were quite close as they approached T2. Pierre and Pallant-Browne were 2 minutes and 44 seconds down to the leaders entering T2.
Charles-Barclay quickly advanced to the lead the early stage of the run, knowing she had super runner and fellow Brit Pallant-Browne hot on the chase.
Charles-Barclay broke the tape and was crowned champion with great emotion. Pallant-Browne stormed down the finish chute to take the silver. De Vries, the 2021 long-distance champion, rounded out the women’s podium with a bronze.
World Triathlon Long Distance Championship
Samorin, Slovakia
August 21, 2022
D 2k / B 80k / R 18k
Men's Results
1. Pierre Le Corre (FRA) S 24:44 T1 2:42 B 1:44:11 T2 1:54 R 57:45 TOT 3:11:15
2. Florian Angert (GER) S 25:12 T1 2:51 B 1:42:26 T2 2:07 R 1:00:56 TOT 3:13:29
3. Frederic Funk (GER) S 26:21 T1 23:52 B 1:42:22 T2 2:17 R 1:01:50 TOT 3:15:40
4. Gregory Barnaby (ITA) S 26:19 T1 2:58 B 1:44:36 T2 2:06 R 1:00:24 TOT 3:16:21
5. Clement Mignon (IFRA) S 27:05 T1 2:49 B 1:44:02 T2 2:11 R 1:01:46 TOT 3:17:53
6. Christophe De Keyser (BEL) S 25:26 T1 2:39 B 1:45:50 T2 2:03 R 1:02:07 TOT 3:18:02
7. Denis Chevrot (FRA) S 26:13 T1 2:40 B 1:48:30 T2 2:23 R 59:30 TOT 3:19:14
8. Robert Kallin (SWE) S 27:03 T1 3:06 B 1:43:43 T2 2:20 R 1:03:25 TOT 3:19:35
9. Jamie Riddle (RSA) S 24:43 T1 2:50 B 1:49:51 T2 2:26 R 1:02:11 TOT 3:21:58
10. Ondrej Kubo (SVK) S 28:59 T1 2:38 B 1:45:41 T2 2:20 R 1:02:56 TOT 3:22:33
Women's Results
1. Lucy Charles-Barclay (GBR) S 26:12 T1 2:42 B 1:58:10 T2 2:08 R 1:05:05 TOT 3:34:17
2. Emma Pallant-Browne (GBR) S 30:41 T1 2:33 B 1:56:49 T2 2:07 R 1:05:21 TOT 3:37:29
3. Sarissa De Vries (NED) S 27:53 T1 2:43 B 1:56:33 T2 2:18 R 1:10:01 TOT 3:39:26
4. Grace Thek (AUS) S 27:55 T1 2:39 B 2:04:20 T2 2:13 R 1:07:16 TOT 3:39:42
5. Luisa Baptista (BRA) S 27:52 T1 2:34 B 2:04:20 T2 2:08 R 1:04:09 TOT 3:41:02
6. Marjolaine Pierre (FRA) S 30:38 T1 2:51 B 1:56:32 T2 2:20 R 1:10:50 TOT 3:43:10
7. Rebecca Clarke (NZL) S 27:17 T1 2:57 B 1:59:56 T2 2:24 R 1:11:59 TOT 3:44:31
8. Manon Genet (FRA) S 31:26 T1 3:00 B 2:00:12 T2 2:19 R 1:10:02 TOT 3:46:57
9. Giorgia Priarone (ITA) S 31:14 T1 3:09 B 2:02:40 T2 2:18 R 1:07:50 TOT 3:47:10
10. Alexia Bailly (FRA) S 30:38 T1 2:53 B 2:01:08 T2 2:04 R 1:10:29 TOT 3:47:10
