Beaugrand dominates the run to take gold for the Junior Women

NEWS

By Paul Groves | 28 May, 2016

The rain poured down last night and everyone was aware that the roads and pathways would be slippery for the early races. It was Junior Women first and then the Elite Men.

Water temperatures meant that for both races it was a wetsuit swim. For the women it was a Britain’s Elisabeth Hood who led out of that water. A run of about 100m took her inside the massive Meo Arena for T1. She was followed closely by a steady stream of athletes, with Germany looking strong. Lena Meißner, who took bronze for Germany in Geneva last year and France’s Cassandre Beaugrand upped the pace through transition and soon were in the leading group. Beaugrand comes to this race full of confidence after her gold in Quarteira. Could she make it two visits to Portugal and two golds? Well, there was a slippery bike course and then the 5k run to finish.

A crash early on in the bike, as the athletes came back into the arena split up a small group of athletes but the leading pack was well into double figures and pulling away from the chasers. With only 5k on the run, it looked as if the medals would be decided in this group. Tucked into this group and staying out of trouble was another German athlete, Lisa Tertsch. With the ETU Duathlon title still fresh in her mind after a great race in Kalkar, the other athletes on the bike must have been aware that she was a threat to any medal.

A blisteringly fast T2 saw Beaugrand and Tertsch push to the front. Meißner was running strong and suddenly it looked possible for Germany to get two athletes onto the podium. The French junior, however, was running with the wind and put metre after metre into her lead. She crossed the finish line comfortably ahead to the delight of the French supporters. Tertsch hung on for silver and once again Meißner secured bronze.

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Related Event: 2016 Lisbon ETU Triathlon European Championships

26 - May, 2016 • event page • all results

Results: Elite Men
1.	Javier Gomez Noya	ESP	01:49:30
2.	Dmitry Polyanskiy	AIN	01:50:09
3.	Andrea Salvisberg	SUI	01:50:32
4.	Alessandro Fabian	ITA	01:50:37
5.	Igor Polyanskiy	AIN	01:50:38
6.	Joao Pereira	POR	01:50:39
7.	Joao Silva	POR	01:50:40
8.	Francesc Godoy Contreras	ESP	01:50:48
9.	Rostislav Pevtsov	AZE	01:51:01
10.	Grant Sheldon	GBR	01:51:05

Results: Elite Women
1.	India Lee	GBR	02:04:03
2.	Yuliya Yelistratova	UKR	02:04:19
3.	Zsófia Kovács	HUN	02:04:24
4.	Vendula Frintova	CZE	02:04:40
5.	Anne Haug	GER	02:04:45
6.	Alexandra Razarenova	AIN	02:04:51
7.	Heather Sellars	GBR	02:05:04
8.	Mariya Shorets	AIN	02:05:09
9.	Agnieszka Jerzyk	POL	02:05:23
10.	Lucy Buckingham	GBR	02:05:29

Results: Junior Men
1.	Javier Lluch Perez	ESP	00:58:03
2.	Samuel Dickinson	GBR	00:58:04
3.	Emil Deleuran Hansen	DEN	00:58:08
4.	Vasco Vilaca	POR	00:58:12
5.	Alex Yee	GBR	00:58:18
6.	Jack Willis	GBR	00:58:25
7.	Alberto Gonzalez Garcia	ESP	00:58:26
8.	Ran Sagiv	ISR	00:58:27
9.	Bence Lehmann	HUN	00:58:31
10.	Maxime Fluri	SUI	00:58:35

Results: Junior Women
1.	Cassandre Beaugrand	FRA	01:02:42
2.	Lisa Tertsch	GER	01:02:54
3.	Lena Meißner	GER	01:03:14
4.	Ines Santiago Moron	ESP	01:03:26
5.	Emilie Morier	FRA	01:03:51
6.	Alberte Kjær Pedersen	DEN	01:04:01
7.	Sian Rainsley	GBR	01:04:08
8.	Cecilia Santamaria Surroca	ESP	01:04:12
9.	Eva Skaza	SLO	01:04:15
10.	Carmen Gomez Cortes	ESP	01:04:22

Results: Men's PT1
1.	Jetze Plat H2	NED	00:57:52
2.	Geert Schipper H2	NED	01:01:48
3.	Joseph Townsend H2	GBR	01:02:47
4.	Giovanni Achenza H1	ITA	01:04:09
5.	Phil Hogg H1	GBR	01:06:22
6.	José Vicente Arzo Diago H2	ESP	01:09:46
7.	Benjamin Lenatz H1	GER	01:10:23
8.	Kim Plovier H1	BEL	01:17:07
9.	Pierre Ouellet H1	CAN	01:19:27

Results: Men's PT2
1.	Andrew Lewis	GBR	01:10:19
2.	Stephane Bahier	FRA	01:11:07
3.	Michele Ferrarin	ITA	01:11:46
4.	Lionel Morales	ESP	01:13:56
5.	Stefan Loesler	GER	01:15:04
6.	Giovanni Sasso	ITA	01:15:34