Lindemann wins bronze at home world championships in Hamburg

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Laura Lindemann made it onto the podium at the ITU World Championship over the sprint distance, which was held in closed circuit in Hamburg’s Stadtpark: The 24-year-old won bronze and, after a strong performance, ended up just behind the new world champion Georgia Taylor-Brown Great Britain and the two-time short distance world champion Flora Duffy from Bermuda.

Aggressive cycling breaks the lead group

After swimming 750 meters in the Stadtparksee, it was initially the British Jessica Learmonth who led the first group out of the water after 9:01 minutes. A leading group quickly formed on the bike course, including Laura Lindemann and many other favorites such as Katie Zaferes (USA), Georgia Taylor-Brown (GBR), Cassandre Beaugrand (FRA), Taylor Spivey (USA), Rachel Klamer (NED) , Vicky Holland (GBR) and Flora Duffy (BER) belonged. On the six bike laps with twelve turning points, the first group rode aggressively, with Flora Duffy and Katie Zaferes in particular keeping the pace at the top.

This not only meant that the distance to the pursuers widened, but also ensured that around half of the athletes from the group of around 20 at the beginning had to be torn down. Strong runners like Summer Rappaport, Cassandre Beaugrand and Vicky Holland also fell behind and lost their chances of a podium placement on the 18.9 kilometer long bike course. After Lindemann got into the second transition area with the leaders, she lost a few seconds there: “Overall, I messed up the second transition quite a bit. I positioned myself badly when dismounting and it took too long to put my shoes on, ”she says after the race. While the trio of Duffy, Learmonth and Taylor-Brown left the transition area first, Lindemann tackled the running route in eighth place, five seconds behind.

Taylor-Brown wins race decision, Lindemann fights his way

On the five kilometers of running, Georgia Taylor-Brown quickly pulled away from her fellow competitors, while Flora Duffy was able to stay in second position consistently. Behind them, a tough fight for third place sparked: Laura Lindemann made up position after position before she caught third-placed Taylor Spivey, briefly ran into her, and finally was able to break away from her and defend her bronze rank to the finish. In the lead, Taylor-Brown secured the world title with a finishing time of 54:16 minutes, followed by Flora Duffy, who finished nine seconds behind the winner. Laura Lindemann reached the finish line with a running time of 16:59 minutes after 54:39 ​​minutes.

The top 10 were rounded off by Taylor Spivey, Katie Zaferes, Maya Kingma (NED), Jessica Learmonth, Rachel Klamer, Lotte Miller (NOR) and Therese Feuersinger (AUT). The 21-year-old Lisa Tertsch achieved an extremely strong performance, finishing as the second best German in 16th place (55:56 min) and once again presented her running strength: The time of 16:37 minutes was enough for the second fastest split of the day, only the American Rappaport was nine seconds faster. The other German athletes Marlene Gomez-Islinger, Lena Meißner, Anja Knapp and Caroline Pohle finished in places 22, 32, 50 and 54.

ITU World Triathlon Series Hamburg | Women

September 5, 2020 in Hamburg

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