{"id":68080,"date":"2020-09-12T19:33:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T23:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triathlonmagazine.ca\/?p=68080"},"modified":"2020-09-25T10:15:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T14:15:01","slug":"jewett-and-laundry-top-canadian-pro-triathlon-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triathlonmagazine.ca\/racing\/jewett-and-laundry-top-canadian-pro-triathlon-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewett and Laundry top Canadian Pro Triathlon Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Canadian track and field star Tamara Jewett made Triathlon Magazine Canada look good today (we put her on the cover of our July issue) with a dramatic come-from-behind win to take the Canadian Pro Triathlon Championship in Caledon, Ont. today.<\/p>\n

Jackson Laundry, one of the event organizers, blasted to the lead on the bike and never looked back to take the men’s title.<\/p>\n

The event was run over the standard (Olympic) distance with a mix of ITU specialist and long-course athletes “meeting in the middle” for a non-drafting event.<\/p>\n

Jewett runs to the win<\/h3>\n

While it might be easy to attribute her win to the day’s fastest run – 2:10 quicker than runner-up Amelie Kretz, the 2016 Olympian, it was Jewett’s impressive swim and bike legs that set up her big win.<\/p>\n

The morning began with a three-loop 1,500 m swim (the swim course seemed to be a bit short based on the times), which was dominated by Ontario junior Kira Gupta-Baltazar. Leaving 30 seconds behind Kretz, the two-time member of Canada’s junior team at the world championship was even with the Rio competitor by the end of the second loop, and would eventually finish in 16:55 to Kretz’s 17:26 split. Jewett had the days sixth-fastest swim – her 19:23 put her just under two-minutes behind Kretz.<\/p>\n

Once the swim was done, the athletes travelled to a sub-division in Alton, where they completed the bike and run legs on a loop that was about 1.3 km.<\/p>\n

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