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Hauschildt and Petreus win Challenge Laguna Phuket Triathlon

Melissa Hauschildt – 2013 Challenge Laguna Phuket Women’s champion (photo by Challenge Laguna Phuket Tri-Fest on Facebook)
Rasmus Petreus – 2013 Challenge Laguna Phuket Women’s champion (photo by Challenge Laguna Phuket Tri-Fest on Facebook)

Denmark’s Rasmus Petreus and Australia’s Melissa Hauschildt captured the overall wins at the inaugural Challenge Laguna Phuket Triathlon today in Thailand.

Hauschildt had an impressive and dominating day. She swam 31:07, ripped into the lead with the top ride of 2:29:14, and she ran the top women’s split of 1:27:35 to finish in 4:30:29. This allowed her to finish 9th overall!

Women

 1 Melissa Hauschildt AUS 04:30:29 0:31:07 2:29:14 1:27:35
 2 Radka Vodickova CZE 04:36:16 0:28:36 2:37:18 1:27:55
 3 Tamsin Lewis GBR 04:44:49 0:31:40 2:36:19 1:34:16
 4 Belinda Granger AUS 04:51:59 0:31:09 2:38:31 1:39:39
 5 Ange Castle AUS 04:53:02 0:35:31 2:41:20 1:33:28
 6 Carole Fuchs THA 05:00:36 0:41:40 2:38:47 1:37:10
 7 Katrine Amtkjaer Nielsen CHN 05:19:13 0:43:37 2:51:12 1:41:10
 8 Anna Stroh THA 05:22:50 0:38:14 2:56:32 1:45:44
 9 Lyndsey Fraser THA 05:27:26 0:38:35 2:51:27 1:53:41
10 Aimee Di Marco GBR 05:28:58 0:42:11 2:56:01 1:46:54

 

Petreus, along with Italians Alberto Casadei and Alberto Alessandroni set the pace during the swim to get out in front early and managed to stay there with the best three rides on the day. Once on the run, Petreus ran away from Casadei and Alessandroni with a 1:20:12 half marathon to secure the victory in 4:05:06.

Men

 1 Rasmus Petreus DEN 04:05:06 0:25:22 2:17:34 1:20:12
 2 Alberto Casadei ITA 04:07:13 0:25:25 2:17:31 1:22:18
 3 Alberto Alessandroni ITA 04:07:52 0:25:28 2:17:28 1:22:41
 4 Ruedi Wild SUI 04:11:11 0:28:08 2:20:31 1:19:49
 5 Massimo Cigana ITA 04:19:12 0:31:42 2:18:51 1:26:18
 6 Fredrik Croneborg THA 04:23:48 0:28:05 2:29:59 1:23:17
 7 Timothy Marr USA 04:28:31 0:28:05 2:30:04 1:28:12
 8 Brad Wauer AUS 04:30:15 0:30:17 2:28:48 1:28:39
 9 Pete Jacobs AUS 04:30:38 0:28:02 2:31:42 1:28:17
10 Till Schramm GER 04:32:20 0:31:36 2:27:39 1:30:55