Both Irish Olympic hopefuls on the Pontoon today in Lisbon Frederic Belaubre, the champion from 2006 and 2005, led a French gold-silver sweep at today’s Lisbon ETU Triathlon European Championships. Tony Moulai took the silver while Swiss Olivier Marceau grabbed the bronze in an exciting photo finish. Ireland’s Olympic hopeful Gavin Noble came home 3mins 53 back for 27th place.
Portugal’s prodigious Vanessa Fernandes won a record-breaking fifth consecutive European Championship today, taking gold with a time of 2 hours, 5 minutes and 46 seconds. Italian veteran Nadia Cortassa took the silver, her fourth career medal at European championships. Swede Lisa Norden continued her breakthrough season, out-sprinting last year’s bronze medalist Nicola Spirig of Switzerland down the stretch for the bronze. Irelands Emma Davis finished 2min 44 down for 16th place.
Well done to Gavin and Emma from all at runireland.com. We wish you both luck and hope to be seeing you both in Bejing in August.
Junior Heffernan finished 2min 10 sec off the pace for 33rd in the male junior race. Well done to Junior from all at runireland.com
