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Andreev, Erbenova win ITU Winter Worlds

Pavel Andreev of Russia won his third straight title by an eyelash and Helena Erbenova of the Czech Republic dominated the women’s field to win her second straight gold at the ITU Winter Triathlon World Championship in Cogne, Italy Saturday.

Men

Andreev had to struggle for his three-peat as he emerged 6th on the first leg, a 4k kilometer run, trailing leader Kristian Monsen of Norway by 37 seconds, Russia’s Evgeny Kirillov by 36 seconds and last year’s runner-up Daniel Antonioli of Italy by 27 seconds. Andreev came back into touch with the leaders with a race-fastest 24:40 bike split that put him ahead of Antonioli and behind Kirillov.

Seeking revenge for a close fought loss to Andreev last year, Antonioli passed both Russians for the lead. But at the end, Andreev clawed back and out sprinted Antonioli near the end of the 6k cross country ski leg to win by a single second – 1:08:24 to 1:08:25. Andreev’s 20:36 final leg split gave back 34 seconds to Antonioli but the Italian simply ran out of room as Andreev earned his third straight winter triathlon title the hard way. Kirillov, who had been in the lead after two legs, was 59 seconds slower than Antonioli and 25 seconds slower than Andreev on the final ski leg and fell to 3rd overall, 10 seconds behind Antonioli.

Women

Erbenova carved out a 90 second lead with her race-best 24:54 opening run leg, then poured it on with a 2nd-best 30:19 second bike leg. Erebenova then clinched her second straight ITU Winter Triathlon World Title gold with a race-fastest 23:17 closing 6 kilometer ski leg that brogutb her to the line in 1:08:24 with a 3:12 margin of victory over silver medalist Elisabeth Sveum of Norway and 4:14 over fellow Czech Republic competitor Sarka Grabmullerova, who finished 3rd.

ITU Winter Triathlon World Championship
Cogne, Italy
February 23, 2013
R 6k / B 12k / Ski 9k

Results

Men

1. Pavel Andreev (RUS) 1:08:24
2. Daniel Antonioli (ITA) 1:08:25
3. Evgeny Kirillov (RUS_ 1:08:35
4. Maxim Kuzmin (RUS) 1:09:21
5. Kristian Monsen (NOR) 1:09:35
6. Arne Post (NOR) 1:09:49
7. Dimitriy Bregeda (RUS) 1:10:36
8. Nicolas Lebrun (FRA) 1:10:45
9. Tomas Jurkovic (SVK) 1:11:13
10. Giuseppe Lamastra (ITA) 1:11:30

Women

1. Helena Erbenova (CZE) 1:20:10
2. Elisabeth Sveum (NOR) 1:23:22
3. Sarka Grabmullerova (CZE) 1:24:24
4. Tatiana Charochkina (RUS) 1:24:55
5. Ingrid Lorvik (NOR) 1:25:58
6. Yulia Surikova (RUS) 1:29:56
7. Roberta Gasparini (ITA) 1:31:21
8. Berthe Annette Svenkerud (NOR) 1:33:06
9. Chiara Novelli (ITA) 1:34:56
10. Enrica Perico (ITA) 1:35:04