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Columbia Threadneedle Rankings Report Yokohama
- Updated: May 17, 2016
With the final curtain for Olympic qualification drawing to a close, the World Triathlon Yokohama provided the backdrop for the fourth round of the 2016 ITU World Triathlon Series.
Yokohama in many ways provided a race of contrasts; while the classy victors provided a return to ‘normal service’, behind them, several athletes grabbed their opportunity to visit a World Triathlon Series podium for the first time, while one in particular brought joy to an adoring home crowd. Let’s take a look at the stories behind the numbers.
Women’s Review If the equine term ‘horses for courses’ was applied to triathlon, then Yokohama surely belongs to the two-time World Champion Gwen Jorgensen (USA). Having finished second for the first time in over two years in Gold Coast, returning to a venue where you have won the previous three additions would have provided additional confidence to this truly thoroughbred athlete. A fourth consecutive victory was achieved in style courtesy of her fastest run split at the venue to date. She now joins Alistair Brownlee (Kitzbuhel), as the only athlete to have won four times at one WTS venue since the series format started in 2009.
While Gwen’s dominance in recent years has been obvious, the wider monopoly of WTS victories by athletes from Great Britain and the US. Not since Anne Haug (GER), at Hamburg in 2013, has the top step of a women’s World Triathlon Series podium been occupied by an athlete from outside of those two countries. That streak is now 24 consecutive race wins from six different athletes.
Australia’s Ashleigh Gentle has now earned three career WTS podium finishes; all three have been silver medals and two of those have been in Yokohama over the last two years. Like Gwen, Ashleigh clearly feels at home in Japan. Added to another silver medal at the season opening race in Abu Dhabi, Gentle has now moved into third position overall in the Columbia Threadneedle Rankings, closing in on the leading duo of Flora Duffy (BER) and Jodie Stimpson (GBR) who were absent in Japan.
The biggest cheer of the day was surely reserved for Japan’s Ai Ueda. Prior to the event we had highlighted Ueda, along with Andrea Hewitt (NZL) in the Head-to-Head feature, with both athletes set to start their 48th career World Triathlon Series race. …
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