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CHALLENGE

Daniela Ryf once again showed how to chew definitely did that today. I didn’t walk, I just ran really
through kilometres at lightening speed. There was slowly! My legs were so heavy and I tried to lift them
little doubt about her success beforehand. And but they didn’t work smoothly! Sometimes you get
while she celebrated her win in 8:40:03 in front a race where you can push it through and today was
of thousands of fans, Chrissie Wellington’s world not easy and I really had to fight for it. I like that the
record remains intact. The difficult windy, humid Roth team changed the run course to make a better
conditions, combined with a back injury for Ryf atmosphere, not to make it faster – it’s not all about the
earlier this year, meant it was not a world record records. When races make courses as fast as possible so
day. people come, that’s not how it should be. I’m just going
to keep focusing on getting better and if the record
“I am very happy with my race,” she said. “Like I said happens, I will be really happy and if it doesn’t, Chrissie
before the race I didn’t think it would be realistic to get Wellington is an awesome record holder.”
the record. But that didn’t stop me trying. I started the
run well – the crowds were amazing and they pushed Second place went to Laura Siddall (GBR) in a
me really hard and I took that energy and I was going personal best of 8:51:38 which also included her
well but the last 25km was very hard – I was struggling. fastest ever bike and run splits. The women’s
It was one of the hardest races for my legs. They got podium was rounded out by Lisa Roberts (USA) in
really challenged which is a good thing – that is why we 8:57:14 who clocked the fastest female run time of
do sport because we like to challenge ourselves and I the day in 2:56:34.

Résultats 5 hommes : Résultats 5 femmes :

1.Aernouts, Bart (BEL) 07:59:07 1.Ryf, Daniela (SUI) 08:40:03
2.Skipper, Joe (GBR) 08:03:00 2.Siddal, Laura (GBR) 08:51:38
3.Clavel, Maurice (GER) 08:04:53 3.Roberts, Lisa (USA) 08:57:14
4.Bracht, Timo (GER) 08:07:01 4.Van Vlerken, Yvonne (NED) 09:07:40
5.Bozzone, Terenzo (NZL) 08:11:34 5. Hengartner, Corina (SUI) 09:25:28

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