CONNOR Keeler, Hannah Worth, Dean Crow and Charlotte Kerr were the main winners at the 2022 Plymouth Triathlon on Sunday.
The event at Mount Batten saw two competitions – an Olympic standard triathlon, which is a 1,500m swim, a 40k bike ride and a 10k run, and a sprint event, which involves a 750m swim, a 20km bike ride and a 5k run.
Conditions were perfect for the event and Plymouth 
Tri Club’s Dean Crow retained the men’s sprint title he won last year thanks to a strong run. The M40-49 athlete completed the short course event in 1:20.21, which was 59 seconds ahead of Avon’s Dan Colman, who came second. Torbay’s Gary Burnman was third overall and second M40-49 in 1:23.53, with Plymouth Tri’s Simon Porter fourth (1:29.23) an Anthony Everson fifth and first M50-59 (1:30.26).
Charlotte Kerr won the women’s sprint event by more than seven minutes, clocking 1:33.28. Second was Helena Clarke (1:40.45), with Plymouth Tri’s Rosie Hellings third (1:42.55), North Bristol’s Karen Markus fourth and first F40-49 (1:46.20) and Tamar Trotters’ Ana-Marie Burgoyne fifth and first F50-59 (1:48.29).
Tavistock Tri Club’s Hannah Worth was first women home over the standard triathlon distance. She came an impressive ninth overall in 2:59.10. She was only seventh quickest woman over the 1,500 sea swim, but overtook her rivals with strong cycling and running legs. She clocked 1:35.50 for the 40k bike ride and 46.57 minutes for the 10k.
Windsor’s Clare McKinnel was second woman in 3:00.34, with Scotland’s Elizabeth Richardson third (3:04.06), Abigail Hill fourth (3:05.36) and Exeter’s Nicole Denton fifth (3:19.19).
Cornwall’s University of Bath triathlon star Connor Keeler dominated the men’s standard event, winning in 2:26.01. He was first out of the swim in 22.29 minutes and was also fastest on the bike ride before finishing with a 40.44 minute 10k run.
The Plymouth course is tough with some tough big hills on the cycle and run out from Mount Batten.
Darren Orchard, a M50-59 athlete, was second overall in the standard event in 2:33.29, with Joshua Cole third (2:36.08), Plymouth Tri’s Sam Twine fourth (2:41.57) and M40-49 competitor Craig Harper fifth (2:43.04).
Full results can be found HERE.
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The day before the adult triathlon at Mount Batten, Plymouth Tri Club, who were organising the event, hosted a junior competition at Plymouth College.
Rather than swimming in the sea, the juniors competed in a pool and cycled and ran around the grounds of the college.
The junior event was split into four age categories – tri-star, tri-star 1, tri-star 2 and tri-star 3.
Thomas Aston and Jasmine Bennett were the male and female tri-star 3 winners, while Bodmin’s Alexander Babb and Plymouth’s Elsie Goodspeed took the top awards in the tri-star 2 category, with George Hilton and Margot Goodspeed winning the tri-star 1 titles and Charlie Simpson and Phoebe Evans the tri-star victors.
Full junior results can be found HERE.
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