Andreev wins ITU Winter Triathlon Champs yet again

Russian athlete Pavel Andreev won his fourth consecutive winter triathlon title at the Cogne ITU Winter Triathlon Championships last weekend, edging out Italy’s Daniel Antonioli in a hard-fought battle down the finish chute.

Antonioli pulled ahead of Andreev in the first discipline – a 6km run – but was overtaken by the Russian on the 12km bike that followed, who then completed a fast T2 to hold off Antonioli in the final 9km cross-country ski, crossing the line in 1:03:39.

Final Results – Elite Men

1

Pavel

Andreev

RUS

01:03:39

2

Daniel

Antonioli

ITA

01:03:40

3

Dmitriy

Bregeda

RUS

01:04:19

4

Giuseppe

Lamastra

ITA

01:04:43

5

Oivind

Bjerkseth

NOR

01:04:53

6

Evgeny

Kirillov

RUS

01:05:42

7

Andrea

Tiberi

ITA

01:07:02

8

Tomas

Jurkovic

SVK

01:07:18

9

Peter

Mosny

SVK

01:07:52

10

Jon

Erguin

ESP

01:08:21

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(Full men’s results here)

Løvset takes gold in the women’s race

In the women’s race, Norway’s Borghild Løvset overtook Czech rival Sarka Grabmullerova in the bike leg to open up a huge gap over the rest of the field, reaching T2 with a three-minute margin and seeing her cross the line in 1:14:08, over two minutes ahead of second placed Olga Parfinenko (RUS).

Final Results – Elite Women

1

Borghild

Løvset

NOR

01:14:08

2

Olga

Parfinenko

RUS

01:16:18

3

Sarka

Grabmullerova

CZE

01:16:33

4

Roberta

Gasparini

ITA

01:18:24

5

Tatiana

Charochkina

RUS

01:18:35

6

Ingrid

Lorvik

NOR

01:18:35

7

Margarita

Ovsyannikva

RUS

01:21:05

8

Lubomira

Kalinova

SVK

01:21:59

9

Nathalie

Lapierre

FRA

01:26:07

10

Chiara

Novelli

ITA

01:26:27

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(Full women’s results here)

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