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2012 Photo of the Year - Week Eight: Auckland

By Fergus Murray | 23 Dec, 2012
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The Grand Final in Auckland produced fantastic opportunities to capture images for the 2012 Photo of the Year contest. After a long season that included the London Olympics, athletes dug deep to finish the year strong. The bountiful photos captured from the elite, U23, junior and paratriathlon races set against the beautiful New Zealand landscape made selecting this week’s photos one of the hardest yet.

With minimal points separating Olympic medallists Erin Densham (AUS) and Lisa Norden (SWE), the pair were set to duel for the World Championship title. However, Densham fell ill a week prior to the racing, forcing her to pull out midway. Norden, who was also sick with food poisoning before racing managed to grab fourth place which earned her the title as best female athlete of the 2012 ITU World Triathlon Series. The win for the day went to Norden’s training partner Anne Haug (GER). Check out race highlights here.

Similar to the women’s race, the men’s race was a tight battle. The hunt to call themselves the best came down to Jonathan Brownlee (GBR) and Javier Gomez (ESP). Despite suffering an injury weeks prior to the race, Gomez delighted the crowds when he overtook Brownlee with a blistering sprint down the finish chute. While Gomez won the race, the world title went to Brownlee. Watch their battle here.

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Related Event: 2012 Barfoot and Thompson World Triathlon Grand Final Auckland
20 - Oct, 2012 • event pageall results
Results: Elite Men
1. Javier Gomez Noya ESP 02:00:29
2. Jonathan Brownlee GBR 02:00:31
3. Sven Riederer SUI 02:01:18
4. Steffen Justus GER 02:01:40
5. Gregor Buchholz GER 02:01:46
DNF. Jarrod Shoemaker USA DNF
DNF. Harunobu Sato JPN DNF
DNF. Sergio Sarmiento MEX DNF
DNF. Simon De Cuyper BEL DNF
DNF. Alexander Bryukhankov RUS DNF
Results: Elite Women
DNF. Erin Densham AUS DNF
DNF. Anja Dittmer GER DNF
DNF. Margit Vanek HUN DNF
DNF. Kiyomi Niwata JPN DNF
DNF. Carole Peon FRA DNF
DNF. Irina Abysova RUS DNF
DNF. Ricarda Lisk GER DNF
DNF. Hideko Kikuchi JPN DNF
DNF. Aileen Reid IRL DNF
DNF. Katrien Verstuyft BEL DNF
Results: U23 Men
DNF. Hans Korman EST DNF
DNF. Uxio Abuin Ares ESP DNF
DNF. Flávio Queiroga BRA DNF
DNF. Ron Darmon ISR DNF
DNF. Matheus Diniz BRA DNF
DNF. Fabian Flores GUA DNF
DNF. Alexander Hinton CAN DNF
DNF. Nikko Huelgas PHI DNF
DNF. Shogo Ishitsuka JPN DNF
DNF. Marco Van Der Stel NED DNF
Results: U23 Women
1. Non Stanford GBR 02:13:06
2. Sarissa De Vries NED 02:13:15
3. Joanna Brown CAN 02:14:12
4. Claudia Rivas MEX 02:14:26
5. Natalie Van Coevorden AUS 02:14:28
6. Sara Vilic AUT 02:15:06
7. Ashlee Bailie AUS 02:15:09
DNF. Arina Shulgina KAZ DNF
DNF. Kaitlin Donner USA DNF
DNF. Fanny Beisaron ISR DNF
Results: Junior Men
DSQ. Dmitry Baruzdin RUS DSQ
DNF. Alexis Lepage CAN DNF
DNF. Shichao An CHN DNF
DNF. Adrien Briffod SUI DNF
DNF. Bob Haller LUX DNF
DNF. Jeffrey Tang Ho Fai HKG DNF
DNF. William Huffman USA DNF
DNF. Anton Portnyagin KAZ DNF
DNF. Delian Stateff ITA DNF
DNF. Isikeli Rawlinson FIJ DNF
Results: Junior Women
DNF. Ivana Kuriackova SVK DNF
DNF. Andrea Nazareth Arenas Toloza VEN DNF
DNF. Mikayla Nielsen NZL DNF
DNF. Maria Cristina Farez Pucha ECU DNF
DNF. Renáta Fuchs HUN DNF
DNF. Johanna Gartman USA DNF
DNF. Anastasia Gorbunova RUS DNF
DNF. Rafelix Naomi Martinez VEN DNF
DNF. Lisa Schanung ITA DNF
DNF. Steffy Mishel Salazar Perez ECU DNF
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