Israeli & Japanese Athletes Win ITU Subic Bay

NEWS

By World Triathlon Admin | 06 May, 2005

Ran Alterman from Israel and Rika Takahashi from Japan have taken out the 11th running of ITU Subic Bay International Triathlon held in the Philippines.

In hot humid conditions, Ran finished in 2 hours and 4 seconds, 1 1/2 minutes ahead of Ben Pulham from New Zealand who caught race winner Ran’s brother Dan just 50 metres from the finish line to prevent an Israeli 1-2 finish.

In the Womens event Takahashi completely dominated the race leading from start to finish to win in 2 hours 16 minutes 51 seconds. Kavya Murthy from India, scored her country’s first ever placing in an ITU Elite event finishing in 2nd place with 3rd place going to local girl Alessandra Araullo.

Related Event: 2004 Subic Bay ASTC Triathlon Asian Championships

03 - Apr, 2004 • event page • all results

Results: Elite Women
1.	Akiko Sekine	JPN	02:06:16
2.	Hongni Wang	CHN	02:07:13
3.	Machiko Nakanishi	JPN	02:07:53
4.	Maki Shimomura	JPN	02:08:58
5.	Dan Wang	CHN	02:10:07
6.	Yekaterina Shatnaya	KAZ	02:10:40
7.	Miyuki Biwata	JPN	02:11:09
8.	Lin Xing	CHN	02:11:58
9.	Shizuka Kutsuna	JPN	02:13:16
10.	Saori Ohmatsu	JPN	02:14:57

Results: Elite Men
1.	Dmitriy Gaag	KAZ	01:58:30
2.	Danylo Sapunov	UKR	01:58:31
3.	Hirokatsu Tayama	JPN	01:58:38
4.	Hideo Fukui	JPN	01:59:38
5.	Junichi Yamamoto	JPN	02:00:08
6.	Hiroyuki Nishiuchi	JPN	02:00:14
7.	Tsukasa Hirano	JPN	02:03:02
8.	Ryosuke Yamamoto	JPN	02:03:22
9.	Daniel Lee Chi Wo	HKG	02:03:52
10.	Jin Xi	CHN	02:05:56