In a race totally controlled by Australians and New Zealanders in both the males’s and females’s occasions– no other citizenships appeared in the leading 10– Ben Hamilton and Milan Agnew won Ironman 70.3 Sunshine Coast today.
Hamilton might not have actually tape-recorded the fastest swim time, however routing Sam Osborne by fifteen seconds and in 6th position, he remained in an ideal position after the swim. The distinctions in between the fastest 8 guys were very little, so the race was broad open. On the bike, some males periodically dropped even more back, however Osborne, Hamilton and likewise Nick Thompson, Jack Sosinski and Jonathan Sammut kept 5 males together up until T2.
It was Osborne who handled to break away from the group throughout the run, however Hamilton followed in 2nd position and did not let his deficit go beyond 30 seconds. Halfway through the run he started to capture up once again and very little later on he took the lead from Osborne. From that point Hamilton went to triumph in a time of 3:39:17. Thompson, who likewise passed Osborne in the closing phases, was 2nd in 3:40:53 and Osborne was 3rd in 3:42:38.
Milan Agnew came out of the water seventh and was then 51 seconds behind Sophie Malowiecki, who taped the fastest swim time. As in the males’s race, a prominent group formed in the ladies’s race, that included Natalie van Coevorden, Radka Kahlefeldt, Chloe Hartnett and Aleisha Wesley in addition to Malowiecki and Agnew. Other than for Wesley, this group remained together up until T2.
Throughout the run, Agnew and Malowiecki at first ran side by side, progressively developing stress in the race. For about seventeen kilometers, things went totally even, up until Agnew handled to get a very little lead in the last kilometers. That lead was so very little that with her finishing time of 4:07:51, she wound up just 25 seconds ahead of Malowiecki (4:08:16), who hence ended up second. Kahlefeldt ended up third in 4:10:20.