Paratriathlon women’s Paralympic preview

On September 11, the fastest women from paratriathlon will take to Copacabana Beach as the first edition of ladies to ever race for Paralympic gold medals in the sport of paratriathlon. Stacked with speedy start lists, the women will get underway on Sunday at 10am with the women’s PT4 sport class. Three minutes later, the PT2 sport class take off, while PT5 women go in waves beginning at 11:35am BRT. 

The women will swim 750m starting at Copacabana Beach, then bike 20km followed by a 5km run along Atlantic Avenue. Click here for the course.

PT2: In the women’s PT2 sport class, it looks like it will be a it’ll be a red, white and blue suffer fest with three incredibly dominant American women lining up. The USA’s three women are the top ranked athletes in the sport class and went 1-2-3 at the test event last year.

Allysa Seely leads the trio as the top-ranked woman on the Paralympic Qualification List having won every race she entered since Edmonton in 2015, including the 2015 World Championships. While the 2016 World Champs didn’t count towards her Paralympic qualification, she won that race, too.  Melissa Stockwell, who was the first wounded female in Iraq, follows in second ranking, while …

continue reading in source www.triathlon.org