Australian Chris McCormack 3rd at Ironman European Championship Triathlon in Germany - Results

Andreas Raelert and Sandra Wallenhorst made sure that the European championship stayed in the hands of German athletes today thanks to two completely different race strategies: Raelert opened a huge lead off the bike to take his title, while Wallenhorst ran past Caroline Steffen to take the women

Raelert wins from the front

Andreas Raelert took a chance that eventually paid off with the biggest win of his career. While most would have considered a bold ride away from the rest of the stacked field assembled here in Frankfurt for the Frankfurter Sparkasse Ironman European Championship suicidal, the 33-year-old Olympian decided to go for it, riding to an 11-minute lead and holding everyone off in the marathon for the win.

Playing catch up

Defending women’s champion Sandra Wallenhorst found herself playing catch up after the swim, made even more challenging for her because wetsuits weren’t allowed in the warm water of the Langener Waldsee. The woman she was trying to catch was Switzerland’s Caroline Steffen, who powered her way around the bike course here and enjoyed a six-minute lead over Wallenhorst starting the run.

The anticipated duel between Wallenhorst and Yvonne van Vlerken appeared to be ready to start as the two entered T2 within feet of each other, but Wallenhorst flew out onto the run course and stayed clear of the Dutchwoman for the entirety of the marathon.

	ATHLETE	DIV	SWIM	BIKE	RUN	TOTAL
1	Raelert, Andreas	34/MPRO	0:47:34	4:20:35	2:53:27	8:05:15
2	Bracht, Timo	35/MPRO	0:48:02	4:31:14	2:47:37	8:10:22
3	Mccormack, Chris	36/MPRO	0:47:54	4:33:33	2:49:57	8:14:43
4	Brown, Cameron	38/MPRO	0:48:04	4:33:50	2:53:04	8:18:33
5	Raphael, Jan	30/MPRO	0:47:57	4:33:50	2:54:26	8:19:27
6	Widmann, Uwe	40/MPRO	0:47:46	4:34:03	3:05:37	8:31:28
7	Ritter, Christian	27/MPRO	0:47:31	4:36:51	3:05:09	8:33:06
8	Vytrisal, Frank	44/MPRO	0:48:06	4:33:33	3:09:47	8:35:39
9	Vernay, Patrick	37/MPRO	0:48:39	4:48:44	2:56:17	8:37:36
10	Luoto, Mika	37/MPRO	0:53:03	4:50:41	2:51:23	8:38:21
11	MÃ¼ller, Christian	38/M35	0:57:02	4:39:41	2:58:44	8:39:55
12	LÃ¶ffler, Christoph	31/MPRO	0:47:58	4:57:25	3:01:38	8:50:23
13	Rotem, Gilad	30/M30	0:52:46	4:53:47	3:01:50	8:52:40
14	Schlittchen, Marko	34/MPRO	1:00:25	4:33:54	3:16:22	8:55:02
15	Anstett, Georg	42/M40	1:02:18	4:43:39	3:04:37	8:55:19
16	Houzelle, Fabrice	36/M35	1:05:07	4:49:32	2:59:02	8:57:54
17	Leder, Lothar	39/MPRO	0:53:00	4:53:38	3:11:08	9:01:21
18	KÃ¼fner, Sebastian	23/M18	0:53:12	4:50:00	3:15:41	9:02:31
19	Droell, Martin	28/M25	0:57:01	5:01:59	3:00:45	9:03:19
20	Horlacher, Frank	42/M40	0:56:33	4:50:17	3:13:20	9:03:42
21	Metz, Dieter	43/M40	1:03:58	4:59:07	2:58:38	9:05:53
22	van Mol, Peter	39/M35	1:01:24	4:59:30	2:59:27	9:07:10
23	Py, Jeremie	31/M30	0:55:45	4:55:54	3:11:16	9:07:22
24	Ureta-Zaugg, Pablo	31/M30	0:55:36	4:56:12	3:11:32	9:07:51
25	Nikolopoulos, Alexander	36/M35	1:04:50	4:34:54	3:23:38	9:07:58
26	Heubel, Christoph	40/M40	1:01:58	4:51:45	3:10:50	9:08:27
27	KÃ¶nig, Tammo	33/M30	0:56:37	4:58:04	3:10:06	9:09:40
28	Imhoff, Sven	31/M30	1:01:48	4:52:52	3:11:40	9:11:19
29	Bruzdziak, Thomas	37/M35	0:58:32	5:00:27	3:07:52	9:11:33
30	PfÃ¤hler, Mathias	37/M35	1:09:38	4:50:35	3:06:25	9:11:43
31	BÃ¼chler, Marcus	30/M30	0:53:03	5:01:16	3:14:05	9:13:07
32	Reimann, Frank	31/MPRO	0:58:21	4:53:20	3:17:21	9:13:11
33	MÃ¼ller, Frank	28/M25	0:55:40	4:50:45	3:22:34	9:13:14
34	Rohleder, Michael	29/M25	0:57:08	4:49:07	3:23:20	9:13:52
35	Martin, Franck	33/M30	0:47:30	5:00:51	3:21:10	9:13:56
36	Jungbluth, Uwe	28/M25	1:12:45

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