Gwen Jorgensen continues World Cup streak with silver behind Bianca Serigni, Tyler Mislawchuk just misses the podium in Miyazaki

Italy’s Bianca Seregni held off 2016 Olympic champ Gwen Jorgensen for the win, while Great Britain’s Hugo Milner took an emotional win with Canadian Tyler Mislawchuk just missing the podium at the World Triathlon Cup Miyazaki. Jorgensen rounds out a successful Asian “tour” after taking the win in Tongyeong a week ago.

Gwen Jorgensen wins World Cup Tongyeong

Seregni outruns Jorgensen for the win

After leading the way out of the 1,500 m swim in 18:00, Seregni was part of the lead group of seven that managed to stay clear for about half of the 40 km bike. The chase pack including Jorgensen managed to catch that breakaway, though, which meant a big group hit T2 at the same time. Seregni flew through transition to lead the women onto the 10 km run course, with Jorgensen 11-seconds back and in 15th place after a slower transition.

Luxembourg’s Jeanne Lehair moved up to Seregni’s shoulder and took the lead at the 5 km point of the run and, at that point, Jorgensen was 19-seconds back and moving into medal contention. Jorgensen surged through the final 5 km and was able to pass Lehair, but there was no touching Seregni, who cruised across the line for the win.

“This is my last race of the season,” Seregni said after the race. “I’m so happy and I am so satisfied about my results, about this year. The ending of this year is amazing, to end like this, I am just so happy.”

“Bianca had an amazing race today,” said Jorgensen. “I don’t know if I could have run with her but I felt like I handed the win away with my T2. Jeanne was coming for her and I thought you got to just keep fighting, it’s now or never. So I put in a surge and just tried not to look back.”

You can find the women’s results here.

Milner takes breakthrough win

After a quick swim that spread the field out, a group of 11 men managed to break clear on the eight-lap, 40 km bike, but by the halfway point that group was caught by the first chase group, creating a group of 16 out in front that would open up a gap of almost a minute on the rest of the field.

As is his normal race strategy, Germany’s Jonas Schomburg surged to the front on the run, but by the last 5 km of the run it was Hugo Milner (GBR), Dylan McCullough (NZL) Germany’s Lasse Nygard Priester and Portugal’s Ricardo Batista duking it out for the medals.

Canadian Tyler Mislawchuk was somehow moving his way through the field, despite being sick.

In the end it was Milner who took the sprint, an impressive result for the Brit, who pulled clear of McCullough and Priester for the win.

“I feel very shocked to be honest,” Milner said. “The last two years have been really hard. I only started triathlon two years ago … This is my fourth World Cup now so to get the gold is unbelievable. I was so emotional at the finish because I’ve worked so hard the last two years and at times kind of doubted myself. To get it today is a dream come true.”

Mislawchuk managed to run through the rest of the breakaway, including Batista, for an impressive fourth.

“It was a tough one,” said the Canadian. “I was throwing up on the bike and sick on the run, so I have to be happy with fourth. I had a stomach bug. I swallowed some ocean water. But I have to be happy, knowing it is not your day and still finishing fourth.

You can find the men’s results here.