Emma Pallant and Ben Dijkstra win World Duathlon titles
Pallant takes senior title and sixteen-year-old Dijkstra wins junior world crown at the World Champs in Adelaide
Emma Pallant
Pallant takes senior title and sixteen-year-old Dijkstra wins junior world crown at the World Champs in Adelaide
Over 3,000 gather in Richmond Park to compete in world’s largest duathlon
Strong winds at Rockingham force the organisers to cancel the bike and make it a straight 10km run
We chat to the rising British pro and her coach/mentor Michelle Dillon about the switch from running to tri, and qualifying for Rio 2016
Over 60 elite men compete over Olympic distance in capital earlier today, while Pallant wins women’s race after cat-and-mouse tussle
Packed town centre cheers on elite athletes, with Mark Buckingham winning men’s race in 1:49:15, while Emma Pallant clinches women’s race with margin of 2mins
Elite athletes Matt Sharp and Emma Pallant win sprint distance on event’s final day; Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood says his first triathlon was “stupendous and brilliant”