Gentle, Royle win classic Noosa Triathlon
Ashleigh Gentle of Australia is now the Queen of Noosa as she won her 6th Noosa Triathlon title Sunday by a dominating 50 seconds margin over countrywoman Natalie Van Coevorden.
Aaron Royle defended his title and won his 4th Noosa crown by a 3 seconds margin over fellow Aussie Max Neumann.
Women
Holly Grice led the swim with a 20:48 split that gave her a 3 seconds margin over Natalie Van Coevorden, 4 seconds over Brittany Dutton, 5 seconds on Jo Miller, 11 seconds on Annabel Luxford, 12 seconds on Radka Kahlefeldt of the Czech Republic, the lone non-Aussie in contention in the pro field, and 15 seconds on Ashleigh Gentle, who won the 2018 WTS Grand Final in September.
After a women's race-best 1:00:14 bike split, Gentle advanced to 4th place, 38 to 40 seconds behind a trio led by Van Coevorden and including Kahlefeldt and Luxford.
After a dominating 35:14 run split, Gentle finished in 2:00:48 with a 50 seconds margin of victory over Van Coevorden (36:37 run) who prevailed in a photo finish sprint with Kahlefeldt (36:41 run). Both women were timed in 2:01:38.
Men
Ben Shaw of Ireland led the swim with a 18:09 split that gave him a 2 seconds lead on Max Stapley, 5 seconds on Jonathan Sammut, 7 seconds on Aaron Royle, and further back, 47 seconds on Ryan Fisher and 55 seconds on Ryan Bailie.
After a race-best 54:06 bike split, Stapley led the field into T1 by 29 seconds on Royle and Sammut, 1:14 on Fisher, 1:22 on Bailie, and 1:30 on Neumann.
After a 4th-best 33:01 run split, Royle finished in 1:48:51 with a 3 seconds margin of victory on Neumann, who ran a race-best 32:10 split, and 14 seconds on Bailie, who ran 32:32. Ryan Fisher ran 32:41 to take 4th place, 6 seconds back of fellow Ryan Fisher.
Noosa Triathlon
Noosa, QLD, Australia
November 4, 2018
S 1.5k / B 40k / R 10k
Results
Women
1. Ashleigh Gentle (AUS) 2:00:48 S 22:03 T1 1:32 B 1:00:14 T2 1:44 R 35:14
2. Natalie Van Coevorden (AUS) 2:01:38 S 20:51 T1 1:27 B 1:00:53 T2 1:48 R 36:37
3. Radka Kahlefeldt (CZW) 2:01:38 S 21:00 T1 1:34 B 1:00:39 T2 1:42 R 36:41
4. Annabel Luxford (AUS) 2:04:01 S 20:59 T1 1:36 B 1:00:39 T2 1:54 R 38:50
5. Jo Miller (AUS) 2:08:03 S 20:53 T1 1:41 B 1:03:31 T2 1:46 R 40:09
Men
1. Aaron Royle (AUS) 1:48:51 S 18:16 T1 1:23 B 54:30 T2 1:38 R 33:01
2. Max Neumann (AUS) 1:48:54 S 19:05 T1 1:17 B 54:42 T2 1:38 R 32:10
3. Ryan Bailie (AUS) 1:49:05 S 19:04 T1 1:21 B 54:35 T2 1:32 R 32:32
4. Ryan Fisher (AUS) 1:49:11 S 18:56 T1 1:28 B 54:35 T2 1:31 R 32:41
5. Trent Thorpe (AUS) 1:49:50 S 18:17 T1 1:27 B 55:22 T2 1:34 R 33:07
