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Gorman goes two better to claim 2013 Junior Women’s World Championship in London

By Merryn Sherwood | 12 Sep, 2013
A dominant all-round performance lifted the USA's Tamara Gorman her first ITU Junior Women's World Championship in tough conditions in London. Gorman claimed...

A dominant all-round performance lifted the USA’s Tamara Gorman her first ITU Junior Women’s World Championship in tough conditions in London on Thursday.

Gorman claimed bronze in similar wet and cold conditions in the Junior Women’s World Championship race in Auckland last year and in Hyde Park, went two better, leading out of the water and then at the front of the bike before pulling away with the fastest run of the day to claim her first world title.

“The run was awesome. I just felt awesome getting off the bike. I mean, I had to try really hard on the bike,” Gorman said. “It was wet, we had to be careful. I had a really good swim. I can’t be unhappy.”

While Gorman powered away basically from T2, the race for medals behind her was far from over. While Australia’s Jaz Hedgeland started out strongly in second from transition, followed by Japan’s Sumire Ohara and Germany’s Laura Lindemann, it was Great Britain’s Georgia Taylor-Brown who put in one of the legs of the day to claim silver.

Taylor-Brown left T2 just behind the leaders but at the end of the first lap of the run was 20 seconds behind Hedgeland. However she thrilled the home crowd with a final burst, moving up from sixth spot at the end of lap two to second with a sprint in the final 800 metres.

“I got out of transition pretty much last. I couldn’t get in my shoes I was so cold,” Taylor-Brown said. “From there I got relaxed and got into the run. I think I relaxed a bit too much and left it to the last 800 and had to sprint from there. It’s great to be able to race on the Olympic course.”

Germany’s Lindemann also produced a final lap burst to pull ahead of Hedgeland into bronze.

Earlier in a cold and misty morning at Hyde Park, the junior women started with a chilly 16.4 degree wetsuit swim in the Serpentine. Gorman was one of the first out of the water alongside Lindemann, Hedgeland, the Netherland’s Maya Kingma and Ireland’s Emma Sharkey.

A lead group of 14 formed early on in the 20km bike and with Australia’s Holly Grice, Sharkey and Taylor-Brown, they worked to increase the gap. While the second chase was being led well by Great Britain’s Sophie Coldwell and Canada’s Emy Legault, they weren’t a match for the leaders and lost around 10 seconds per lap.

From there it became clear that the winners would come from the lead group and it all came down to the 5km run. It didn’t take long for Gorman to assert her dominance and she finished with the fastest run split of the day, 17 minutes flat.

Other notable performances included last year’s silver medallist Leonie Periault, who battled hard at the front of the second chase in the bike and then ran a 17:36 split to pull herself up into 12th. Last year’s Junior Women’s World Champion Fumika Matsumoto struggled early on in London and ended-up finishing 39th.

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Results: Elite Men
1. Javier Gomez Noya ESP 01:48:16
2. Jonathan Brownlee GBR 01:48:17
3. Mario Mola ESP 01:49:10
4. Dmitry Polyanskiy RUS 01:49:21
5. Vincent Luis FRA 01:49:24
6. Laurent Vidal FRA 01:49:28
7. Aaron Royle AUS 01:49:30
8. Crisanto Grajales MEX 01:49:32
9. Reinaldo Colucci BRA 01:49:34
10. Joao Pereira POR 01:49:34
Results: Elite Women
1. Non Stanford GBR 02:01:32
2. Aileen Reid IRL 02:01:57
3. Emma Moffatt AUS 02:02:00
4. Jodie Stimpson GBR 02:02:06
5. Alice Betto ITA 02:02:09
6. Emma Jackson AUS 02:02:11
7. Sarah True USA 02:02:16
8. Andrea Hansen NZL 02:02:56
9. Ashleigh Gentle AUS 02:03:06
10. Ainhoa Murua Zubizarreta ESP 02:03:26
Results: Junior Men
1. Dorian Coninx FRA 00:51:57
2. Marc Austin GBR 00:52:00
3. Grant Sheldon GBR 00:52:01
4. Raphael Montoya FRA 00:52:19
5. Gordon Benson GBR 00:52:25
6. Jacob Birtwhistle AUS 00:52:28
7. Amitai Yonah ISR 00:52:32
8. Morgan Davies GBR 00:52:32
9. Antonio Serrat Seoane ESP 00:52:33
10. Lasse Nygaard Priester GER 00:52:40
Results: Junior Women
1. Tamara Gorman USA 00:57:08
2. Georgia Taylor-Brown GBR 00:57:31
3. Laura Lindemann GER 00:57:34
4. Jaz Hedgeland AUS 00:57:39
5. Sumire Ohara JPN 00:57:51
6. Cassandre Beaugrand FRA 00:58:02
7. Ditte Kristensen DEN 00:58:28
8. Holly Grice AUS 00:58:47
9. Maya Kingma NED 00:58:54
10. Sophia Saller GER 00:58:56
Results: U23 Men
1. Pierre Le Corre FRA 01:42:47
2. Fernando Alarza ESP 01:42:51
3. Declan Wilson AUS 01:42:55
4. Igor Polyanskiy RUS 01:43:16
5. Matthias Steinwandter ITA 01:43:27
6. Andrey Bryukhankov RUS 01:43:44
7. Uxio Abuin Ares ESP 01:44:00
8. Ryan Fisher AUS 01:44:02
9. Davide Uccellari ITA 01:44:05
10. Marten Van Riel BEL 01:44:12
Results: U23 Women
1. Charlotte McShane AUS 01:55:38
2. Ellen Pennock CAN 01:55:39
3. Amelie Kretz CAN 01:55:41
4. Hanna Philippin GER 01:55:43
5. Joanna Brown CAN 01:55:49
6. Tamara Gomez Garrido ESP 01:55:57
7. Sophie Corbidge NZL 01:56:18
8. Tamsyn Moana-Veale AUS 01:56:31
9. Emmie Charayron FRA 01:56:39
10. Sara Vilic AUT 01:56:57