Australians elite champions sa Subic triathlon

PINAGHARIAN nina Australians Oscar Dart at Charlotte McShane ang sprint senior elite category sa 30th Subic Bay International (SuBit) sa SMBA freeport Boardwalk Linggo.

Nasungkit ni Dart ang gold medal sa men’s division matapos iposte ang kabuoang oras na 52 minutes at five seconds sa 750-meter swim,20-kilometer bike, at 5-km run race sa event na tinaguriang 2023 NTT AST Subic Bay Asia Cup.

Nalagay sa second place (52:12) ang kapwa Australiano Joshua Ferris, habang ang 2022 champion Ren Sato ng Japan ang third place (52:23).

Ang teammate ni Sato,Genta Uchida (52:29) at Jumpie Furuya (52:38) nagtapos fourth at fifth, ayon sa pagkakasunod.

“It feels really good winning this tournament because it’s my first continental title,” Wika ni Dart’

“I was a little bit surprised but I was ready. At the start of the race, I know I can win. When I finished third last year, for me, that’s a really big result because it was my first podium ever,” Dagdag ng 6-foot-5 native of Melbourne.

McShane, na pinanganak sa Scotland ang naghari sa women’s division sa oras na 58:58).

Chinese Yifan Yang nagrehistro ng 58:54 napunta sa second place, kasunod ang Australian Ellie Hoitink (58:58)

Ang iba pang top 10 finishers ay China’s Meiyi Lu (58:54) at ang kababayang si Angi Huang (59:07), Japanese Manami Hayashi (59:21), Hungarian Zsofia Kovacs (59:23), Slovakians Zuzana Michalickova (59:30) at Romana Gajdosova (59:37), at Japanese Chisato Nakajima (59.40).

Filipino – Spanish Fernando Jose Casares, ang 2021 Southeast Asian Games gold medalist, bumagsak sa 25th position sa 66-strong men’s na lumahok sa oras na 54:46.

Three-time SEA Games gold medalist Marion Mangrobang (1:01:07) ay nalaglag sa 24th out of 48 entries sa women’s division. Kira Ellis ay 32nd (1:03:09) kasunod si Faith Raven Alcoseba (1:03:24) na parehong taga Cebu.

Samantala,Renz Wynn Corbin at Karen Andrea Manayon ng Talisay, Cebu naghari sa Under -23 Elite category.

“On our 30th year edition, I am happy to say and that the experience we have, one of the strongest elite fields that have participated in this SuBIT event. We got what we wanted, to expose as final tune-up event for our national team going to Cambodia. Nothing will be stronger than this event,” Wika ni Tom Carrasco, president of the organizing Triathlon Association of the Philippines, sa panayam.