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World’s Juniors to get 2019 Grand Final up and running in Lausanne

By Doug Gray | 26 Aug, 2019
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The men’s and women’s Junior World Championships get the 2019 Grand Final action underway on Friday morning, kick-starting the biggest event on the year’s triathlon calendar. The opening 750m swim will be followed by a 4-lap, 20km bike with a demanding climb and some long, fast straights, before rounding off with a two-lap run along the edge of Lake Geneva, where the grandstands will await the crowning of two new Junior World Champions.

Women’s preview
This will be a third consecutive ITU Grand Final for New Zealand’s Hannah Knighton, who finished 5th in Rotterdam and 11th on the Gold Coast last year. After taking the Kelowna Sprint Triathlon American Cup by storm in early July, she will be looking to bookend her Junior career in style in Switzerland.

Nor will there be any big-race fear from Hong Kong’s Bailee Brown, who has already amassed an incredible amount of experience, past races including the 2018 Asian Games, a handful of Elite World Cups and the World Triathlon Series Mixed Relays in Abu Dhabi and Edmonton. European Junior Champion Beatrice Mallozzi (ITA) and Portugal’s Gabriela Ribeiro, fresh from the Mixed Relay at the Tokyo Test Event, could also be among the European names challenging for the medals.

South Africa’s number one Junior Amber Schlebusch has had a busy year since winning the Youth Olympic title in Buenos Aires and will have designs on the gold here, while Erin Wallace (GBR) would love to go one better than her sparkling silver performance from 2018’s World Champs.

Ecuador’s Paula Vega finished 5th at the Youth Olympic Games last year and Junior Asian Champion Nanami Nakayama (JPN) will want to improve on her 13th place 12 months ago, while the 2018 Junior World Champion Cecilia Alavez (MEX) will be looking to defend the title she won in the Gold Coast sunshine 12 months ago after digging deep to deliver a superb run display over the closing stages.

For the women’s line up, click here


Men’s preview
Brock Hoel will lead the Junior men out onto the start line, the Canadian revelation who finished with an excellent fifth at the CAMTRI Sprint American Cup behind compatriot Charles Paquet. Ricardo Batista (POR) put in a brilliant display to score a top-20 finish at the Tiszaujvaros World Cup in July, and will look to build on his 15th place finish on the Gold Coast. 

New Zealand’s Dylan Mccullough led from the front to bag gold at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games after finishing 23rd in last year’s Grand Final. Frenchman Paul Georgenthum capped an excellent 2018 himself with World Championship individual silver and Mixed Relay gold in Australia, and after a European title success in Weert at the start of June, is likely to be among the contenders again here.

Wearing the Brazil colours will be Miguel Hidalgo, silver medallist at the Holten Junior European up, while Jamie Riddle goes out for South Africa after another solid year that included the Cagliari World Cup and a WTS Mixed Relay debut in Abu Dhabi.

Among the less established triathlon nations represented on the men’s start list will be Bahrain, with Omar Ali and Abdulrahman Mubarek, Singapore through Luke Chua and Uzbekistan through Aleksander Reshetnikov, while Chin Wa Wong represents Macau.

For the men’s line up, click here

Related Event: 2019 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Lausanne
29 - Sep, 2019 • event pageall results
Results: Elite Men
1. Kristian Blummenfelt NOR 01:50:47
2. Mario Mola ESP 01:51:03
3. Fernando Alarza ESP 01:51:18
4. Gustav Iden NOR 01:51:34
5. Vincent Luis FRA 01:51:53
6. Javier Gomez Noya ESP 01:52:14
7. Casper Stornes NOR 01:52:20
8. Jonathan Brownlee GBR 01:52:32
9. Marten Van Riel BEL 01:52:53
10. Alois Knabl AUT 01:52:53
Results: Elite Women
1. Katie Zaferes USA 02:02:45
2. Jessica Learmonth GBR 02:02:49
3. Georgia Taylor-Brown GBR 02:03:03
4. Rachel Klamer NED 02:03:44
5. Flora Duffy BER 02:04:26
6. Laura Lindemann GER 02:04:41
7. Annamaria Mazzetti ITA 02:04:51
8. Alice Betto ITA 02:05:11
9. Taylor Spivey USA 02:05:40
10. Nicola Spirig SUI 02:05:53
Results: U23 Men
1. Roberto Sanchez Mantecon ESP 01:50:20
2. Csongor Lehmann HUN 01:50:36
3. Ran Sagiv ISR 01:50:50
4. Vasco Vilaca POR 01:51:07
5. Brandon Copeland AUS 01:51:12
6. Diego Moya CHI 01:51:28
7. Diego Alejandro Lopez Acosta MEX 01:51:38
8. Ben Dijkstra GBR 01:51:44
9. Matthew Hauser AUS 01:51:52
10. Simon Westermann SUI 01:51:57
Results: U23 Women
1. Emilie Morier FRA 02:04:01
2. Olivia Mathias GBR 02:04:08
3. Lisa Tertsch GER 02:04:32
4. Kate Waugh GBR 02:04:53
5. Kira Hedgeland AUS 02:05:22
6. Alicja Ulatowska POL 02:05:38
7. Lena Meißner GER 02:06:30
8. Erika Ackerlund USA 02:06:49
9. Ainsley Thorpe NZL 02:07:25
10. Therese Feuersinger AUT 02:07:37
Results: Junior Men
1. Ricardo Batista POR 00:55:05
2. Lorcan Redmond AUS 00:55:12
3. Sergio Baxter Cabrera ESP 00:55:16
4. Boris Pierre FRA 00:55:18
5. Paul Georgenthum FRA 00:55:23
6. Levente Karai HUN 00:55:29
7. Brock Hoel CAN 00:55:36
8. Alessio Crociani ITA 00:55:38
9. Eric Diener GER 00:55:41
10. Simon Henseleit GER 00:55:42
Results: Junior Women
1. Beatrice Mallozzi ITA 01:00:41
2. Costanza Arpinelli ITA 01:00:42
3. Jessica Fullagar FRA 01:00:53
4. Hannah Knighton NZL 01:01:26
5. Erin Wallace GBR 01:01:47
6. Chisato Nakajima JPN 01:01:49
7. Nora Gmür SUI 01:01:54
8. Anja Weber SUI 01:01:58
9. Gillian Cridge USA 01:01:59
10. Brea Roderick NZL 01:02:01