In addition to the action at the British Triathlon’s Performance Assessment, this weekend also saw Matt Willis compete at the World Cross Country Champs and a XTERRA silver for Jacqui Allen.
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Performance Assessment Weekend
Congratulations to all the Youths and Juniors who raced at @BritTri national assessment! To anybody who didn’t do as well as they hoped, I was lapped out of the race 4 years ago.. Keep working hard, love what you do and then anything is possible! #TrustTheProcess
— Alex Yee (@Lixsanyee) March 31, 2019
385 youth and junior athletes from across all the Home Nations and Jersey took part in the British Triathlon’s Performance Assessment weekend, with the event acting as the first event in the Super Series in addition to being an opportunity for parents and athletes to engage in workshops designed to support whole athlete (person) development and meet staff and coaches from the leading Triathlon University programmes across the two days.
The racing format of the weekend was split into a swim time trial on Saturday (Youth A: 400m, Youth B & Junior: 800m), followed by a bike and run on Sunday (Youth A: 10km/2.5km, Youth B & Junior: 20km/5km) with athletes released into T1 in pursuit format based off their time from the previous day. The top 3 in each age-category can be seen below with a link to full results below (official rankings will be available from the YJSS page here later in the week).
Category | Female | Male |
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Youth A | 1 - Lizzie Edge 2 - Martha Calton-Seal 3 - Madeline Grace Cooper |
1 - Osian Perrin 2 - Joshua French 3 - Bertie Pettit |
Youth B | 1 - Daisy Davies 2 - Eden Schiller 3 - Elsbeth Grant |
1 - Daniel Dixon 2 - Finnian Hutchinson 3 - Xavi Salcedo |
Junior | 1 - Libby Coleman 2 - Jessica Fullagar 3 - Freya Thompson |
1 - Noah Canby 2 - Marcus Dey 3 - Oliver Makinson |
Additional Racing
World Cross was everything I expected and so much more ?? Over the moon to finish 25th as 2nd European, highest placed Brit since 2008 and equal to Mo Farah’s best position ???????? pic.twitter.com/dqcnLYlDPA
— Matt Willis (@mwillisrun) March 31, 2019
ITU Junior Duathlon World Champion Matt Willis finished 25th in the in the U20's category this weekend at the World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, coming across the line as the second European athlete. Full results can be found here.
Additionally in Taiwan the XTERRA Asia-Pacific Championship, Jacqui Allen, ITU Cross Triathlon Silver medallist in 2017, claimed a spot on the podium with a second placed finish, with fellow Britains Doug Hall and Nicole Walter finishing 7th and 8th in their respective races. Full results can be found here.