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Winter Tri European Champs Review

By Fergus Murray | 08 Feb, 2010

The ETU Winter Triathlon European Championships in Lygna, Norway were a resounding success.

In the elite womens race the irrepressible Marthe K. Myhre of Norway won the ETU Winter Triathlon European Championships.  She delighted the home supporters by leading a gold-silver sweep for the home team.  Myhre won with a time of 1 hour, 20 minutes and 56 seconds, almost a full 2 minutes ahead of her closest competitor, team mate Hanne Tronnes. Although Emma Garrard from USA finished third the ETU bronze medal goes to Yulia Surikova of Russia as the third European across the line. The Under23 women’s race was also contested at the same time as the elite women and it was an absolutely dominating performance by Norwegian Tuva Toftdahl.

Swedish Andreas Svanebo won the elite men’s ETU Winter Triathlon European Championship for the third time in his career, after his victory in 2007 and 2008. As it was in the women’s race for Myhre, Svanebo lead from start to finish for the win. Norwegian Arne Post, last year’s gold medalist easily won the silver but competition was a lot closer for the final step on the podium.  Four men finished under 20 seconds with Italian Daniel Antonioli bursting through for bronze. In the Under23 men’s race, Dmitriy Bregeda from Russia won gold in a commanding performance.

In the junior events the Norwegian teenagers Tone Dalen and Martin Nyenget won their respective races.

On the second day of the championships the team relay competitions were held where Russia secured the European title in the men and the Norwegian team for the women. The program was finished by the Age-Group competitions with several great performances in ideal weather and snow conditions.

The Elite race distances were a 7.5-km run, 10-km mountain bike and a 10-km cross-country ski.

This weekends events are a great build up for the ITU Winter Triathlon World Championships which take place next weekend a short drive away in Eidsvoll, Norway.
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Related Event: 2010 Lygna ETU Winter Triathlon European Championships
06 - Feb, 2010 • event pageall results
Results: U23 Women
1. Tuva Toftdahl NOR 01:21:23
2. Elisabeth Sveum NOR 01:28:07
3. Anna Evseeva RUS 01:29:38
4. Emma Skjærstad NOR 01:32:25
5. Tatiana Glukhova RUS 01:40:00
Results: U23 Men
1. Dmitriy Bregeda RUS 01:11:20
2. Peter Mosny SVK 01:12:08
3. Pavel Khanzhin RUS 01:12:56
4. Maxim Kuzmin RUS 01:13:21
5. Johan Noraker Nossen NOR 01:17:31
6. Simen R Aaslund NOR 01:19:11
7. Jozef Tomasovic SVK 01:23:56
DNF. Oivind Bjerkseth NOR DNF
DNF. Christian Westgaard NOR DNF
Results: Junior Women
1. Tone Dalen NOR 01:00:34
2. Ida S. Snortheim NOR 01:02:40
3. Marianne Madsen NOR 01:07:44
4. Ekaterina Minaeva RUS 01:16:24
Results: Junior Men
1. Martin Nyenget NOR 00:51:52
2. Håkon Karlstad NOR 00:52:22
3. Pavel Yakimov RUS 00:52:47
4. Felix Waldhuber AUT 00:53:20
5. Evgeny Bayguzov RUS 00:53:53
6. Gøran Bollestad NOR 00:54:36
7. Preben Langdal NOR 00:55:44
8. Ola Skatvedt NOR 00:56:46
9. Leif Trønnes NOR 00:56:55
10. Fredrik F Liland NOR 01:01:15
Results: Elite Women
1. Marte Katrine Myhre NOR 01:20:56
2. Hanne Trønnes NOR 01:23:08
3. Emma Garrard USA 01:23:10
4. Yulia Surikova RUS 01:24:19
5. Tatiana Charochkina RUS 01:24:45
6. Sarka Grabmullerova CZE 01:26:21
7. Rebecca Dussault USA 01:26:24
8. Camilla Hott Johansen NOR 01:28:43
9. Heather Best USA 01:29:20
10. Ksenia Chernykh RUS 01:29:57
Results: Elite Men
1. Andreas Svanebo SWE 01:08:29
2. Arne Post NOR 01:09:31
3. Daniel Antonioli ITA 01:10:13
4. Pavel Andreev RUS 01:10:23
5. Tor Halvor Bjørnstad NOR 01:10:33
6. Tor-Atle Fuglerud NOR 01:10:35
7. Sigi Bauer AUT 01:11:34
8. Brian Smith USA 01:11:35
9. Tomas Jurkovic SVK 01:12:07
10. Konstantin Lavrentyev RUS 01:12:49