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Messias scores Brazil its first-ever Junior World Title

By Erin Greene | 18 Sep, 2015
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When thunderstorms caused the men’s 2015 ITU World Championship men’s junior race to be delayed and shifted to a duathlon.

When thunderstorms caused the men’s 2015 ITU World Championship men’s junior race to be delayed and shifted to a duathlon, Manoel Messias (BRA) seized the opportunity to strike hot, scoring his first world title in Chicago. The title is the first time Brazil was represented on the top of the podium at the Junior World Championship race.

In a feisty battle down the finish cute, Messias shot past Germany’s Peer Sonksen and France’s Leo Bergere, who took second and third, respectively. When the course changed from a sprint triathlon to a two-lap 5km run, four-lap 20km bike and one-lap 2.5km run, more than 65 men started their hunt for one world title in front of Buckingham Fountain.

The wide, flat streets created the opportunity for a large chunk of the field to run together in the first discipline of the race. More than 20 men came into the first transition within five second of each other headed up by Spain’s Roberto Sanchez Mantecon. The group also included eventual winner Messias, as well as second and third place finishers Peer Sonksen and Leo Bergere.

Sanchez set about powering out of transition to create some distance over the field. Together with Bergere, Gustav Iden (NOR), Tayler Reid (NZL) and Max Studer (SUI), the men managed to drop nearly half of the pack early on the bike for a 14-front group.

While Reid attempted to go off the front a number of times, his attacks were short lived as the group shot back up to him every time. Coming off the four-lap bike, the Junior had just one lap back out on Columbus Street before the world title would be decided.

It was a decisive lap as many of the racers fell off a blistering pace. Coming around the Fountain for the final time, it looked like Sonksen would be crowned the fastest man of the day, but Messias managed to kick up his velocity in the final metres, scorching past the German just in time to claim the top honours with a roaring scream. Sonksen and Bergere both joined Messias in rounding out the top three for their first World Championship podiums. 

Related Event: 2015 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Chicago
15 - Sep, 2015 • event pageall results
Results: Elite Men
DNF. Hunter Kemper USA DNF
DNF. Ryan Fisher AUS DNF
DNF. Kyle Jones CAN DNF
DNF. Marten Van Riel BEL DNF
DNF. Irving Perez MEX DNF
DNF. Andrea Secchiero ITA DNF
DNF. Lukas Hollaus AUT DNF
DNF. Bryan Keane IRL DNF
DNF. Alexander Bryukhankov RUS DNF
DNF. Kristian Blummenfelt NOR DNF
Results: Elite Women
1. Gwen Jorgensen USA 01:55:36
2. Non Stanford GBR 01:56:05
LAP. Luisa Baptista BRA LAP
LAP. Jessica Broderick USA LAP
DSQ. Elena Danilova RUS DSQ
DNF. Katrien Verstuyft BEL DNF
DNF. Julie Stupp USA DNF
DNF. Vendula Frintova CZE DNF
DNF. Sarah-Anne Brault CAN DNF
DNF. Kirsten Sweetland CAN DNF
Results: Junior Men
LAP. Anton Ponomarev RUS LAP
DSQ. Edward Macalalad PHI DSQ
DNF. Diego Alejandro Lopez Acosta MEX DNF
DNF. Lasse Lührs GER DNF
DNF. Samuel Dickinson GBR DNF
DNF. Fynn Thompson NZL DNF
DNF. Kauê Willy BRA DNF
DNF. Tyler Smith BER DNF
DNF. Emil Deleuran Hansen DEN DNF
DNF. Oliver Blecher CAN DNF
Results: Junior Women
1. Laura Lindemann GER 00:57:28
2. Taylor Knibb USA 00:58:14
DNF. Jeanine Kocken NED DNF
DNF. Cassandre Beaugrand FRA DNF
DNF. Angelica Olmo ITA DNF
DNF. Minami Kubono JPN DNF
DNF. Maude Elaine Le Roux RSA DNF
DNF. Sara Skardelly AUT DNF
DNF. Madalena Amaral Almeida POR DNF
DNF. Hellen Lopez GUA DNF
Results: U23 Men
1. Jacob Birtwhistle AUS 01:40:51
LAP. Tautvydas Kopustas LTU LAP
LAP. Joscar Jesus Duque Muñoz VEN LAP
DSQ. Ian Manthey IRL DSQ
DNF. Xavier Grenier-Talavera CAN DNF
DNF. Filipe Azevedo POR DNF
DNF. Cameron Todd NZL DNF
DNF. Itamar Alster ISR DNF
DNF. Mohamed Elsaied EGY DNF
DNF. Yaroslav Potanin RUS DNF
Results: U23 Women
1. Audrey Merle FRA 01:04:35
2. Leonie Periault FRA 01:04:35
3. Melanie Santos POR 01:04:46
4. Avery Evenson USA 01:04:52
5. Miriam Casillas García ESP 01:05:12
6. Vanesa De La Torre MEX 01:05:20
7. Natalie Van Coevorden AUS 01:05:23
8. Chloe Cook GBR 01:05:26
9. Johanna Gartman USA 01:05:29
10. Lizeth Rueda Santos MEX 01:05:41
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