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Brad Kahlefeldt of Australia and Eimear Mullan of Ireland take the elite titles in the third staging of Pattaya Triathlon in Thailand. Pattaya Triathlon is part of the Thailand Tri-League. More than 1800 athletes joined the weekend events in Pattaya, which includes duathlon, sprint and olympic distance categories.
Kahlefeldt came out of the swim in 22:03, six seconds behind swim leader Eric Watson’s (BHR) time of 21:57. Kahlefeldt wasted no time putting out the day’s best bike split of 1:01:42. Combined with day’s best run split at 38:29, the Aussie would finish at 2:05:55, a sizeable 2 minutes and 56 second victory over Fredrik Croneborg (SWE). Mitch Robins of Australia completed podium by finishing third at 2:10:40. Other notable finishers, Ritchie Nicholls (GBR) of the Thanyapura triathlon team finished 4th at 2:11:15, and Eric Watson placed 5th.
In the women’s category, Thanyapura’s Eimear Mullan (Ireland) swam the 1st leg in 25:36, behind the duo of Kerry Morris (25:15) and young Thai triathlete Sanruthai Arunsiri who swam the fastest at 25:11. Mirroring the men’s race, Mullan would combine a women’s best 1:07:33 bike split and 44:29 run split to win in 2:21:05. This is Mullan’s first race since 2015, making strides after an assortment of injuries derailed her career.
Dimity-Lee Duke was runner-up at 2:25:30, and Kerry Morris rounded up podium, finishing 3rd at 2:27:55.
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