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Columbia Threadneedle Rankings Report Hamburg
- Updated: July 20, 2016
Despite its ever-present status on the Series, the Hamburg Wasser World Triathlon welcomed two brand new names to its long history of race winners on Saturday. For one of those athletes, victory was a brand new career experience, while for the other it could well be another step towards a first ITU World Championship title.
Let’s look a little deeper into the statistics and stories from Hamburg.
Women’s ReviewFor the second consecutive race, the World Triathlon Series welcomed a first-time winner. Just like Flora Duffy (BER) in Stockholm, Katie Zaferes (USA) was no stranger to a WTS podium itself; having secured five second places finishes and one third during 2015. However, in Hamburg she was able to take the final step and become only the 18th women to win a World Triathlon Series event since 2009.
While Katie was gaining her first win, second place for Rachel Klamer (NED) was her first World Triathlon Series podium, achieved in her 40th race. Having finished seventh (Leeds) and fifth (Gold Coast) already this year, her form has been good, but that might be just the breakthrough she needs to push on to further success. It also makes her only the second Dutch athlete to have achieved this after Maaike Caelers. Who will be the first athlete from The Netherlands to win WTS gold?
Such is her quality that Gwen Jorgensen (USA) being beaten in a race is treated as big news, because it happens so infrequently. Third place in Hamburg will not be the pre-Rio result that Jorgensen wanted, but there are still plenty of positives to take away. Her 5km run time of 15:44 was the second fastest sprint distance time recorded to date within the World Triathlon Series. Only Gwen herself (15:31, also in Hamburg three years ago) has run faster. She also improves her incredible medal statistics to 22 podiums from 35 starts; that’s a podium success rate of 63%. For her last 17 starts that percentage is, incredibly, 100%; including 14 dominating wins.
One athlete not heading to Rio this year, such is the strength-in-depth of the Great Britain team, is Jodie Stimpson. With her attention now firmly focused on the Columbia Threadneedle Rankings, fourth in Hamburg was another strong result towards her revised season …
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