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The second WTCS event of the 2022 season makes it\u2019s way to Leeds in a new and shorter version of the much-loved World Triathlon Series classic.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n After nothing less than disaster struck in the men\u2019s race with GB\u2019s Yee and Brownlee\u2019s hopes dashed in the swift and unforgiving bike course, the women\u2019s race promised plenty more fast-paced racing.<\/p>\n Favourite out the bat was current Olympic and World Champion, Flora Duffy (BER), double Olympic medallist Georgia Taylor-Brown (GB), and Team GB\u2019s Olympic reserve and last yea\u2019s third<\/p>\n Cassandre Beaugrand leads at the early stages of the swim while Bermuda\u2019s Flora Duffy leads out a second parallel swim pack alongside. Once they passed the first buoy, the groups merged with Duffy sliding in into sixth place in the chaser pack including with the USA\u2019s Taylor Spivey.<\/p>\n Out the swim first was French superstar Cassandre Beaugrand with Coldwell hot on her heels and silver medallist Georgia Taylor-Brown in 11th position 9s behind.<\/p>\n The first of four laps on the 20km bike course saw a lead group of reigning Olympic and World Champion Flora Duffy, with GB\u2019s Sophie Coldwell caught by Taylor Spivey to form a solid first pack.<\/p>\n Hot in pursuit was Germany\u2019s Laura Lindemann and Britain\u2019s Beth Potter, who were soon caught by silver medallist Georgia Taylor-Brown, fresh from her win at Yokohama last month.<\/p>\n The Bermudian can\u2019t keep the pace however, losing touch of the lead group in the second lap of five and leaving the front two to battle it out.<\/p>\n By the end of lap three, the two frontrunners boasted a huge lead of 40s, with a gigantic chaser pack headed by Georgia Taylor-Brown having swallowing up Flora Duffy who moved down to sixth.<\/p>\n Last year\u2019s winner Maya Kingma (NED) sits safe in the\u00a0 22-strong chase pack, alongside Britain\u2019s Beth Potter and Sian Rainsley, plus swim leader Cassandre Beaugrand, Laura Lindemann (GER), and Rachel Klamer (GER).<\/p>\n It\u2019s not all fun and games though with Coldwell powering up the hill out of transition to drop Spivey straight away at the start of the 5km run. A busy T2 saw the chasing pack coming through 20s later, with Taylor-Brown gliding through in fourth and Duffy having moved down the ranks to 13th.<\/p>\n A blunder from Beaugrand spelled disaster for the French athlete, who mounted her bike just before the line and gained herself a 10s penalty, effectively taking her out of contention.<\/p>\n Knowing she has to take the penalty, Beaugrand powered ahead in the second run lap hoping to create enough of a lead to stay in contention. Meanwhile, Georgia Taylor-Brown overtakes Coldwell into second place with Spivey falling off the back into fourth.<\/p>\n As it often does in these races, it was down to the wire between the British duo out in front, with Taylor-Brown inching past Coldwell in the final few minutes.<\/p>\n Despite having to take her 10s penalty, Beaugrand retains enough of a lead to sprint to the finish ahead of the British athletes with a winning time of 59:03. Taking silver was Georgia Taylor-Brown and in bronze was Sophie Coldwell.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Top image:<\/strong> (Photo by Jack Thomas\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Kate Milsom Published: Saturday, 11 June 2022 at 12:00 am The second WTCS event of the 2022 season makes it\u2019s way to Leeds in a new and shorter version of the much-loved World Triathlon Series classic.\u00a0 After nothing less than disaster struck in the men\u2019s race with GB\u2019s Yee and Brownlee\u2019s hopes dashed in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":15178,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"3"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2022\/06\/cassandre-beaugrand-takes-gold-at-wtcs-leeds-scaled.jpg",2560,1703,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2022\/06\/cassandre-beaugrand-takes-gold-at-wtcs-leeds-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2022\/06\/cassandre-beaugrand-takes-gold-at-wtcs-leeds-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2022\/06\/cassandre-beaugrand-takes-gold-at-wtcs-leeds-768x511.jpg",768,511,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2022\/06\/cassandre-beaugrand-takes-gold-at-wtcs-leeds-1024x681.jpg",800,532,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2022\/06\/cassandre-beaugrand-takes-gold-at-wtcs-leeds-1536x1022.jpg",1536,1022,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2022\/06\/cassandre-beaugrand-takes-gold-at-wtcs-leeds-2048x1362.jpg",2048,1362,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/220triathlon\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Kate Milsom Published: Saturday, 11 June 2022 at 12:00 am The second WTCS event of the 2022 season makes it\u2019s way to Leeds in a new and shorter version of the much-loved World Triathlon Series classic.\u00a0 After nothing less than disaster struck in the men\u2019s race with GB\u2019s Yee and Brownlee\u2019s hopes dashed in…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/220triathlon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/15177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/220triathlon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/220triathlon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/220triathlon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/220triathlon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/220triathlon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/220triathlon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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