Australian DATEV Challenge Roth Results 2015

Official results show 105 Australians raced the 2015 Challenge Roth. Overall we must congratulate David Dellow and Carrie Lester for their podium finishes with David finishing 3rd overall and Carrie finishing 2nd female overall. In addition Carrie was the 2nd fastest Australian. David Dellow finsihed with a rare sub 8hr iron distance triathlon and slips in to an elite group of men. Carrie Lester became the 53rd woman to go sub 9hrs.

Outside of our two professional triathletes we saw Shane Gibbs post the fastest age group swim at 49:52 for the Aussie contingent with Neil Ferguson not too far behind on 53:39. Lauren Jones was the fastest age group female in the swim with a 59:43 swim and Lisa Luckin also posted a sub 1hr swim with 59:56. David Dellow’s 47:35 swim was one of the fastest swims of the day. Carrie Lester’s swim of 52:09 saw her with a bit of work to do after leader Anja Beranek swam 49:20.

As we hit T1 we see yet again what sets us age groupers apart from the pros. David and Carrie were the 1st and 2nd fastest Australians through T1. Once again Shane Gibbs name pops up with the 3rd fastest T1. Warringah’s Isabell Beck was the 4th fastest overall making up a bit of time on the swim.

That was the good for T1. The big question is who stopped for a cup of tea? Now we will start by saying we do not have the resources to check on each individual situation but having spent 17:27 all up in transition in my only iron distance triathlon I have been the butt of plenty of jokes. Not just having a cup of tea but it looks like they were making tea for everyone were Mark Smoothy and and Dr Donal Watters. Keep in mind David Dellow spent 1:51 in T1 the other end of the spectrum was over the 9min mark.

Out on to the bike and as expected whilst none of the age groupers were as fast as our two leading pros there were a handful of sub 5:10 bike splits. Matt Carman rode 5:00 with Shane Gibbs, Balmoral Tri Club’s Michael Taylor, David Williams and the dashing Tom Kroyer rounding out the sub 5:10 crew. Nera Jareb was our fastest age group female on the bike at 5:24 with Isabell Beck 4mins back. Tom Kroyer’s team mate Lauren Jones also rode solid posting a 5:31 along with Joan Kuhrmann.

In to T2 and we have a look again at the tea makers. Whilst Mark Smoothy picked up his game it is a bit harsh to joke around when people have just ridden 180kms so we won’t… except for Jay Luke and Mark ‘Emo’ Emerton of Elite Energy fame. What were you guys up to? Also we noticed Scott Norrish had obviously settled in for an afternoon nap. Dr Donal Watters redeemed himself with a 5min T2. Nice comeback!

On to the marathon and huge congratulations to David Dellow (2:48) and Carrie Lester (3:09) who used their runs to move through the field and on to the podiums. It was great to watch!

Amongst the age groupers Jason Gerke from the Panthers Tri Club ran a 3:20 to be our fastest age grouper. The next two fastest marathons came from Monica Haydock (3:25) and Lisa Lukin (3:26). Once again we see Shane Gibbs and Tom Kroyer’s names pop up with 3:26 and 3:28. One other Australian ran a sub 3:30 and it was Dale Olsson with a 3:28.

Overall Shane Gibb was our first age grouper home in 9:24 with Dale Olsson the next age grouper home in 9:44 and Tom Kroyer was our 3rd age grouper in 9:50 with Jason Gerke 7 seconds back. Amongst the women Lisa Lukin was our first female age grouper at 10:03 with Nera Jareb next in 10:06. Isabell Beck was our 3rd female age grouper home in 10:40. Well done also to Matt Carman and  Michael Taylor for going sub 10hrs.

Well done to everyone. You were all very lucky to take part in one of the biggest triathlon shows on earth. Very jealous!

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