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2009 ITU WORLD AQUATHLON CHAMPIONSHIPS - GOLD GOAST AUSTRALIA

Posted by Michael Collins on Sep 08 2009 at 05:00PM PDT

SURFERS PARADISE, AUSTRALIA – There was some nervous excitment by many of the athletes waiting for the last minute decision to make the event a non-wetsuit race. Without wetsuits the race is 2.5k Run-1k Swim-2.5k Run. If wetsuits had been legal the event would have been run as a 1k Swim followed by a 5k Run. The water temp reading an hour before the first wave was 22.1c with a limit of below 22 for wetsuits to be legal.

The race was run in four waves set off 1 hour apart. Wave one was the Pro males and females, Under 23 Elites, and Junior Elites. Wave 2 was men under 40. Wave 3 was men 40+ and wave four was all females. The waves were quite large as it was the largest field for a World Championship Aquathlon by a long way! The addition of Sprint Distance athletes to Worlds added a lot of participants to the Aquathlon as well.

There were 372 Male Amateur finishers and 206 female finishers.

Full results can be found at:
http://www.championchip.hu/eredmenyek/detailed.php?lang=en&year=2009&iframe=

Photos can be found here:

http://multisportsoc.smugmug.com/Multisports-OC/Races