Jonathan Brownlee wins and Mario Mola is second in the Edmonton World Series.

September 4, 2016Updated on September 4, 2016

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An exhibition of the Briton in the race on foot gave him the victory

Today was held in Edmonton (Canada) the penultimate round of the Triathlon World Series where several triathletes who competed in the last Olympic Games of Rio As the Silver medal were on the starting line. Jonathan Browlee, the South African Richard Murray, the Mexican Crisanto Grajales or the Spanish Mario Mola o Vicente Hernández among others.

As for the test, which was held over sprint distance, the first to get out of the water were Richard Varga, followed by Jonathan Brownlee. Vicente Hernández left 27 seconds and Mario Mola 42 seconds

As soon as the first meters of the cycling sector started, a group of 3 cyclists quickly formed with Jonathan Brownlee, Richard Varga and Aaron Royle who were very fast trying to increase the advantage over the chasing group where Vicente Hernández and Richard Murray were. Mario Mola a little further behind was in a third group trying to catch up with the leaders.

In the absence of a return the persecuting groups where Mola, Murray and Hernández were joined. finally The leading group Jonathan Brownlee, Richard Varga and Aaron Royle arrived with 7 seconds of advantage to the T2 over the group of Mario Mola

From the very beginning, Jonathan Browlee who made a great transition started to run very fast, although behind a group with Mario Mola and Richard Murray tried not to leave much of an advantage.

An exhibition of the British Jonathan Brownlee in the race sector allowed him to increase the advantage over his pursuers and achieve the final victory in a time of 51:39 The second to reach the goal was Mario Mola to 17 seconds that attacked in the last few meters to Richard Murra) that came in third final position 5 seconds behind. Vicente Hernández finished the test in the 22º position

Provisional classification

Jonathan	Brownlee	00:51:39
Mario	Mola	00:51:56
Richard	Murray	00:52:01
Grant	Sheldon	00:52:09
Thomas	Bishop	00:52:10
Steffen	Justus	00:52:15
Adam	Bowden	00:52:19
Jonathan	Zipf	00:52:22
Shachar	Sagiv	00:52:23

Female test

In the women's event that was played at the 20: 00 the Spanish Carolina Routier, triathlete who participated in the last Rio Games, was in the group of head of race until the start of the race on foot. Finally finished in the 12ª position. Among the favorites for victory were Flora Duffy, Sarah True, Katie Zaferes, Jodie Stimpson, Non Standford, Lisa Norden among others.

The winner of the test has been Summer Cook who has achieved victory with a time of 00: 56: 49, followed in second position by Sarah True (00: 56: 52) and for Katie Zaferes (00: 56: 56) occupying the third final place

Classifications:

Summer	Cook	00:56:49
Sarah	True	00:56:52
Katie	Zaferes	00:56:56
Flora	Duffy	00:57:10
Vicky	The Netherlands	00:57:15
Kirsten	Kasper	00:57:19
No	Stanford	00:57:30
Emma	Jackson	00:57:36
Gillian	Sanders	00:57:37
Jolanda	Annen	00:57:41
Taylor	Spivey	00:57:45
Carolina	Truck	00:57:50

Next appointment: Grand Final of Cozumel

Mario thanks to this second place ends with 3940 points in the ranking. The final date of the season and where everything will be decided is the Grand Final in Cozumel, where the winner of the test will win 1.200 points.

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