ITU World Triathlon Series

Mola Upsets Brownlee Double at 2009 ITU Triathlon Junior World Championships

13 September 2009 - Texto en español

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2009 Gold Coast Junior Men

Mario Mola from Spain surged past Jonathan Brownlee late on to deny the Brownlee brothers a historic double following Alistair Brownlee’s senior men’s win at the Dextro Energy Triathlon – ITU World Championships.

Crossing the line in 54:35, the Spaniard accelerated on the final run lap to take victory, reminiscent of Alistair Brownlee’s deciding move against Spain’s Javier Gomez in yesterday’s elite competition. Jonathan Brownlee was strong enough to hold on to second despite the fast running of Hungary’s Kristof Kiralyhun.

With a large pack of thirty coming together on the bike, title favourite Brownlee was forced to work hard to prevent any breakaways from escaping off the front of the peloton. Once on the run, despite his best efforts, Mola proved to be too strong and the Brit was unable to respond to the large last lap push by the Spaniard.

“I feel really good, the running was great, and although the bike was not good and I did not have a good transition I’m pleased that all my run training worked well and I was able to win,” said Mola.

Audio interviews:
Junior world champion, Mario Mola

Junior world champion, Mario Mola [Spanish]

Junior bronze medallist, Kristof Kiralyhun

Junior Men

1.	Mario Mola	ESP	00:54:35
2.	Jonathan Brownlee	GBR	00:54:50
3.	Kristof Kiraly	HUN	00:54:55
4.	Kevin McDowell	USA	00:55:07
5.	Davide Uccellari	ITA	00:55:10
6.	igor Polyanskiy	RUS	00:55:13
7.	Min Ho Heo	KOR	00:55:14
8.	Andrey Brukhankov	RUS	00:55:19
9.	Stefan Zachaeus	GER	00:55:22
10.	Matheus Diniz	BRA	00:55:25