Lucy Charles sweeps the Challenge Family Championship
The British triathlete has achieved the treble with her third consecutive victory
After meeting the new champion with Sebastian Kienle as the winner of the 2019 The Championship edition, in the women's event, Lucy Charles winner in the past two editions was the favorite and has also met the forecasts by climbing third consecutive time to the highest in this test.
The British was the first to get out of the water with 1: 30 ahead of Radka Vodickova and more than 3 minutes over Ellie Salthouse.
In the cycling segment, Charles managed to manage his advantage to reach T2 with 1:11 over Daniela Bleymehl and Anja Ippach who came back from behind to arrive in second and third position to face the 21 km race on foot.
In the last segment Lucy Charles he has increased his advantage to arrive alone at the finish with a time of 3: 59: 39. The second classified has been Radka Kahlefeldt (4:05:36) followed by Daniela Bleymehl (4: 07: 17) occupying the third final position
Here is your triple CHAMPION @LucyAnneCharles Congratulations to a great race, leading the whole race! #thechampionship pic.twitter.com/8voBynfEzi
— Challenge Family (@Challenge_Famil) June 2th, 2019
His times have been
- 1,9 km swimming: 24: 19 (mean of 1: 16 min / 100 m)
- 90 km cycling: 2:38:38 (average of 42,93 km / h)
- 21 km running: 1:19:20 (average of 3:46 min / km)
