Israeli & Japanese Athletes Win ITU Subic Bay

by World Triathlon Admin on 06 May, 2005 11:59

Ran Alterman from Israel and Rika Takahashi from Japan have taken out the 11th running of ITU Subic Bay International Triathlon held in the Philippines.

In hot humid conditions, Ran finished in 2 hours and 4 seconds, 1 1/2 minutes ahead of Ben Pulham from New Zealand who caught race winner Ran’s brother Dan just 50 metres from the finish line to prevent an Israeli 1-2 finish.

In the Womens event Takahashi completely dominated the race leading from start to finish to win in 2 hours 16 minutes 51 seconds.  Kavya Murthy from India, scored her country’s first ever placing in an ITU Elite event finishing in 2nd place with 3rd place going to local girl Alessandra Araullo.

Related Event: 2004 Subic Bay ASTC Triathlon Asian Championships
03 - 04 Apr, 2004 • event pageall results
Results: Elite Women
1. Akiko Sekine JPN 02:06:16
2. Hongni Wang CHN 02:07:13
3. Machiko Nakanishi JPN 02:07:53
4. Maki Shimomura JPN 02:08:58
5. Dan Wang CHN 02:10:07
Results: Elite Men
1. Dmitriy Gaag KAZ 01:58:30
2. Danylo Sapunov UKR 01:58:31
3. Hirokatsu Tayama JPN 01:58:38
4. Hideo Fukui JPN 01:59:38
5. Junichi Yamamoto JPN 02:00:08
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