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- Updated: October 27, 2016
This weekend will be a set of firsts and lasts as the 2016 World Cup season comes to a close on the first-ever hosted Miyazaki ITU Triathlon World Cup on Saturday. As the tenth and final race of the year, the elites will return to Japan, a much beloved country of ITU and regular World Triathlon Series host, but this time to take on a standard distance course in the city of Miyazaki, who will be making their triathlon World Cup debut.
So far this season the 2016 World Cup circuit has seen 16 different gold medallists spread across ten different countries for the men’s and women’s races. This weekend the elites will battle a two-lap 1500 metre swim, eight-lap 40 kilometre bike and four-lap 10 kilometre run course for the last time in the hopes of adding their name to the list of champions this year.
Women’s Preview A familiar rivalry of Japan’s own Ai Ueda and Americans Summer Cook and Renee Tomlin will line up against each other for the second time in a week after competing last weekend at the Tongyeong World Cup. The three women fought in Korea to all land on the podium, but it will be a longer distance in Japan that will determine if the results will remain the same.
Ueda once again will start off the competition with the top position. After taking the silver medal in Tongyeong, she will be hoping that her home nation advantage will give her the motivation she needs to end her World Cup season with golden honours. And having the local crowd in her favour has already proven to do the trick for Ueda, when during the World Triathlon Series in Yokohama she earned herself a bronze medal as the loud cheering from the Japanese spectators carried her in the finish chute.
However, USA’s Cook and Tomlin were next to Ueda on the Tongyeong podium last weekend, with Cook standing at the top. Cook has had a ground-breaking 2016 season and adding another World Cup win would be the cherry on top of a spectacular year. She has collected two World Cup gold medals (Chengdu and Tongyeong) and also grabbed her debut WTS title in Edmonton. But her last two wins came …
