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Novices make the most of Daventry Sprint Triathlon

Race report from the inaugural Daventry Sprint Triathlon

Large numbers of novice triathletes used the inaugural Daventry Sprint Triathlon to test out their fitness and skills this weekend.

George Goodwin of Rugby Triathlon Club won the men’s overall title with a time of 57:47 and Emily Whitmore of Loughborough University Triathlon Club won the ladies overall title with a time of 1:04:58. The best relay team was Team Kimbo who completed the course in 1:05:19.

Age Group Winners for the Daventry Sprint Triathlon (400m swim, 20km cycle, 5km run) were:

Age Group

Name

Time

U18

George Goodwin

57:47

18-24

Joshua Newman

Emily Whitmore

1:04:48

1:04:58

25-29

Tom Greeves

Emily Morrissey

1:01:59

1:16:09

30-34

Richard Bruce

Rachel McLardie

1:06:13

1:19:23

35-39

Stuart Tipton

Louise Bennett

1:01:18

1:12:45

40-44

Jon Archer

Paula Fletcher

1:08:26

1:15:02

45-49

Mark Stewart

Trish Hewitt

1:04:53

1:25:30

50-54

Chris Howes

Sharon Fearn

1:11:29

1:21:48

55-59

Michael McCann

Annette Carlin

1:05:32

1:30:07

60-64

Sylvia Guthrie

1:51:22

Array

Race Director Garry Haynes of Rugby Triathlon Club said: “We’ve had some very positive feedback about this inaugural Daventry Triathlon and the day went as smoothly as we hoped. I’d just like to recognise the support we’ve had from Daventry District Council, Daventry Leisure Centre, volunteers and all our commercial sponsors and supporters. Seeing so many new competitors to the sport was fantastic and we hope they’ve now got the bug to do some more triathlon races and maybe even another Daventry Triathlon next year.”

More information can be found at www.rugbytriathlon.org.uk.

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Matt is a regular contributor to 220 Triathlon, having joined the magazine in 2008. He’s raced everything from super-sprint to Ironman, duathlons and off-road triathlons, and can regularly be seen on the roads and trails around Bristol. Matt is the author of Triathlon! from Aurum Press and is now the editor of Cycling Plus magazine.