Greg Bennett wins $151,500 Hy-Vee Men's Triathlon Title & 5150 US Championship

The start list had Greg Bennett down as racing for Australia today and did he race! Bennett knows how to win the big ones and at almost 40 years old has shown that experience counts for a lot when push comes to shove. It was a great day for the Bennett household with Laura Bennett picking up 5th spot in the women’s race and $20,000. Hunter Kemper of the US was 2nd. He could not eat in to Bennett’s lead at all on the run with Bennett looking very strong right to the end. Australia’s Paul Matthews picked up a couple of places on the run with Chris McCormack also picking up a number of places.

Joshua Amberger claimed the $10k for leading the field out of the swim and ended up with $15k in total for the day. He raced very well but faded on the run. It was a great day for the young Australian. Very dissapointed today will be Tim Reed who has been racing the 5150 series in the US this season with some great results and finishing very close to Paul Matthews. He was struck down by the flu this week and has raced today on considerably less energy than he had a week ago. He managed to pick up a few places on the run to finish 23rd overall despite some asthma issues during the race.

Full race report to come.

Full details available the race website

Pos	Athlete	Country	Total	Diff.	Prize
1	Greg Bennett	AUS	1:49:42	0:00:00	$151,500
2	Hunter Kemper	USA	1:50:12	0:00:30	$75,000
3	Stuart Hayes	GBR	1:50:30	0:00:48	$50,000
4	Paul Matthews	AUS	1:50:51	0:01:09	$25,000
5	Rasmus Henning	DEN	1:51:16	0:01:34	$20,000
6	Kris Gemmell	NZL	1:52:00	0:02:18	$18,000
7	Filip Ospaly	CZE	1:52:13	0:02:31	$16,000
8	David Thompson	USA	1:52:20	0:02:38	$14,000
9	Matt Reed	USA	1:52:32	0:02:50	$12,000
10	Chris McCormack	AUS	1:52:39	0:02:57	$10,000
11	Andy Potts	USA	1:53:23	0:03:41	$9,500
12	Martin Krnavek	CZE	1:53:36	0:03:54	$9,000
13	Timothy O’Donnell	USA	1:53:44	0:04:02	$8,500
14	Kaleb Vanort	USA	1:54:09	0:04:27	$8,000
15	Bertrand Billard	FRA	1:54:22	0:04:40	$7,500
16	Jordan Jones	USA	1:54:26	0:04:44	$7,000
17	Jarrod Shoemaker	USA	1:54:33	0:04:51	$6,500
18	Benjamin Collins	USA	1:54:35	0:04:53	$6,000
19	Csaba Kuttor	HUN	1:54:44	0:05:02	$5,500
20	Cameron Dye	USA	1:54:50	0:05:08	$5,000
21	Kyle Leto	USA	1:55:14	0:05:32	$4,800
22	Fraser Cartmell	GBR	1:55:39	0:05:57	$4,600
23	Timothy Reed	USA	1:55:44	0:06:02	$4,400
24	Joshua Amberger	AUS	1:55:47	0:06:05	$4,200
25	Chris Foster	USA	1:55:51	0:06:09	$4,000
26	Igor Sysoev	RUS	1:56:01	0:06:19	$3,800
27	Ritchie Nicholls	GBR	1:56:54	0:07:12	$3,600
28	Brian Fleischmann	USA	1:57:52	0:08:10	$3,400
29	Marcus Ornellas	BRA	1:58:30	0:08:48	$3,200
30	Kevin Everett	USA	1:59:35	0:09:53	$3,000

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Karl Hayes

Karl is a Gold Coast based father of 3, a keen home improver and an age group triathlete who races on the M5 Acadamies triathlon team. ‘A good life balance is incredibly important’.

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