GE Great Britain Paratriathlon Team succeed at ETU European Paratriathlon Championships

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Over the weekend of the 3 and 4 of July, the small town of Athlone in Ireland played host to the ETU Triathlon European Championships. This was the first event of the 2010 season that the GE Great Britain Paratriathlon Team were targeting in a year packed with high quality paratriathlon events.

Great Britain sent a team of 14 athletes across most of the ITU competition classes, which consisted of current European Champion David Cooke, and current World Champion Clare Cunningham.

The majority of members on the GE Great Britain Paratriathlon Team are also part of the Great Britain Paratriathlon Performance Squad, which since the beginning of 2010 has aimed to support the best athletes with an ultimate goal being success at events such as the European and World Championships.

Hopes were high leading into this event and these were not let down. The GE Great Britain Paratriathlon Team won more medals than ever before from one team in the Paratriathlon event, with a total of twelve, four gold, four silver and four bronze.

Some highlight performances were from both the winners of the Tri 6 visually impaired category, after Iain Dawson was the quickest athlete of the race overall and  Charlotte Ellis managed to overcome a 2min 30sec deficit to pass the leader. Faye McClelland managed to overcome Clare Cunningham, current ITU World Champion to win gold in the Tri 4 catergory.

All our GE Great Britain Paratriathlon Team medallists are listed below:

Jane Egan – Tri 1 – Gold
Faye McClelland – Tri 4 – Gold
Clare Cunningham – Tri 4 – Silver
Charlotte Ellis – Tri 6 – Gold
Sara Butler – Tri 6 – Bronze
David Cooke – Tri 1 – Silver
Alan Rayment – Tri 1 – Bronze
Steve Judge – Tri 3 – Silver
Paul Thomas – Tri 3 – Bronze
Iain Dawson – Tri 6 – Gold
Chris Goodwin – Tri 6 – Silver
Haseeb Ahmad – Tri 6 – Bronze