Sudrie, Boman win Half Challenge Barcelona
Sylvain Sudrie of France broke it open with a red-hot 1:56:04 bike and Tiina Boman of Finland outpaced defending champ Sofie Goos with a race-best run to win the men’s and women’s titles at Half Challenge Barcelona-Maresme Sunday in Spain.
The men
Sudrie took the Barcelona-Maresme half Ironman distance race Sunday with a 3:35:47 time that was 4:18 in front of runner-up Francois Chabaud of France and another 31 seconds on third place Jarmo Harst of Finland.
Sudrie, who took second to Tim O’Donnell at the 2009 ITU long distance World Championship in Perth and 4th at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Clearwater, used a race-best 22:19 swim that put roughly two minutes on his closest rivals and a red-hot 1:56:04 bike that put 3:02 on Chabaud and 4:11 on Harst to secure the victory.
Starting the run with a 5-plus minutes lead, Sudrie’s 7th-best 1:15:21 run was more than enough to easily hold off 2nd place Chabaud’s 1:14:15, 3rd place Harst’s 1:13:59, 4th place Victor Morales’ 1:11:02 and 5th place Clemente Alonso McKernan’s 1:14:48 half marathons.
The women
Tiina Boman of Finland and Sofie Goos of Belgium swam together (28:16 to 28:22) and biked together (2:10:02 to 2:09:51) before Boman settled the dispute on the run 1:24:30 to 1:28:45.
Boman’s 4:05:17 finishing time was 4:13 ahead of Goos, and 11:02 in front of third place Monika Lehmann of Switzerland.
The win added another victory to Boman’s excellent resume which includes a win at the 2007 Ironman Lanzarote, a 2nd place at the 2009 Germany Ironman 70.3, and 3rd places at 2008 Ironman Coeur d’Alene and 2009 Ironman Frankfurt.
Goos’s runner-up finish adds to her 2009 wins at Ironman Florida, the full distance Challenge Barcelona-Maresme and Antwerp Ironman 70.3.
Half Challenge Costa de Barcelona-Maresme
Calella, Spain
May 16, 2010
S 1.2 mi. / B 56 mi. / R 13.1 mi.
Results
Men
1. Sylvain Sudrie (FRA) 3:35:47
2. Francois Chabaud (FRA) 3:40:05
3. Jarmo Harst (FIN) 3:40:36
4. Victor Morales (ESP) 3:40:52
5. Clemente McKernan (ESP) 3:41:23
6. Domenico Passuelo (ITA) 3:41:33
7. Massimo Cigana (ITA) 3:42:25
8. Rasmus Stubager (DEN) 3:45:47
9. Cyril Viennot (FRA) 3:46:25
10. Emil Dalgaard (DEN) 3:48:44
Women
1. Tiina Boman (FIN) 4:05:17
2. Sofie Goos (BEL) 4:09:30
3. Monika Lehmann (SUI) 4:16:19
4. Julia Grant (NZL) 4:28:17
5. Lisa Horgan (IRL) 4:33:17
6. Emma Roca Rodriguez (ESP) 4:34:20
7. Venla Koivula (FIN) 4:36:19
8. Uta Streiter (AUT) 4:42:38
9. Ana Isabel Estevez Garcia (ESP) 4:42:40
10. Esther Leal Pareja (ESP) 4:51:45
