Henry Schoeman beats the Brownlee and Flora Duffy takes the gold in the Commonwealth games

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Today the Commonwealth Games have been contested in Gold Coast (Australa) with the participation of great triathletes, where the surprise has been that the Brownlee brothers have been left out of the medals.

The victory of the test, which has been disputed sprint distance, it has been for Henry Schoeman that is positioning itself as a clear candidate to fight for the ITU World Title, followed by Jacob Birthwhistle  and for the scots  Marc Austin getting the silver medal.

In the race, a group escape was made after the swim with the Brownlee and Schoeman brothers, but finally they have sunk in the race on foot and they have run out of medal options, Jonathan coming in seventh and Alistair in the tenth position.

The South African Schoeman completed the 5 km of race on foot in 15:00 obtaining the gold medal, but the great run that Birtwhistle did with the best partial on foot (14:36) that was climbing positions and came second, just 7 seconds behind Schoeman.  

Results: Elite Men
1.	Henri Schoeman	RSA	00:52:31
2.	Jacob Birtwhistle	AUS	00:52:38
3.	Marc Austin	GBR	00:52:44
4.	Matthew Hauser	AUS	00:52:46
5.	Ryan Sissons	NZL	00:52:49
6.	Richard Murray	RSA	00:53:04
7.	Jonathan Brownlee	GBR	00:53:09
8.	Luke Willian	AUS	00:53:33
9.	Matthew Sharpe	CAN	00:53:34
10.	Alistair Brownlee	GBR	00:53:37

FLora duffy wins the women's event

As for the female event, the winner has been Flora Duffy, which remains unrivaled, followed by Jessica Learmonth  and by Joanna Brown in third final position

The Bermudense and Learmonth escaped in the cycling sector reaching T2 together with about a minute over the chasing group, Flora thanks to her great race sector left in the first meters of the solo race to win clearly reaching solo finish with a time of 56:00 followed by Learmonth (57:33) followed closely by Brown (57:38) at just 5 seconds.

Results: Elite Women
1.	Flora Duffy	BER	00:56:50
2.	Jessica Learmonth	GBR	00:57:33
3.	Joanna Brown	CAN	00:57:38
4.	Vicky Holland	GBR	00:57:42
5.	Ashleigh Gentle	AUS	00:58:08
6.	Sophie Coldwell	GBR	00:58:19
7.	Nicole Van Der Kaay	NZL	00:58:31
8.	Non Stanford	GBR	00:58:45
9.	Gillian Backhouse	AUS	00:58:54
10.	Rebecca Spence	NZL	00:59:12

Photo @worldtriathlon