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Raphael Montoya runs to gold in Kitzbühel Junior European Championships

By David Peddie | 21 Jun, 2014

By Hans Cleemput

The French athletes are looking forward to a big party on Sunday evening. “Les Bleus” dominated the men junior race, claiming gold and silver and taking 7th and 8th place as well. It was Raphael Montoya who was the fastest runner of a lead pack of 30 athletes who entered T2 together. The French junior held off Spain's Antonio Serrat in a big sprint in the finish chute. Max Hueber-Moosbrugger secured the bronze medal ten seconds behind his team mate Montoya.

After 750 meters of swimming Mark Dévay from Hungary was first out of the water with only a 6 second gap to two big groups who immediately formed one big lead pack of 30 athletes in the first of three bike laps. The chase pack with among others Irish favorite Constantin Doherty was trailing by 1 minute. The run would be all decisive. Belgium's Erwin Vanderplancke took the lead after the second transition, but he dropped back to 22nd place.

Halfway through the run 4 leaders were battling for the medals but Germany's Lars Lührs dropped off in the second run lap, leaving Spanish junior Antonio Serrat surrounded by the two strong French runners.

Montoya couldn't be more happy with the gold medal after finishing second last year. “I was hoping to win here as a revanche for my silver medal last year. In the final section of the run the three of us stuck together. Antonio wouldn't let go but I didn't panic and hoped that my sprint would be fast enough. I am really happy with this win. And we're looking forward to a big party for the French gold and silver today, but that will not happen before Sunday evening because first we're focussing on the mixed team relay on Sunday.”

Serrat gave it all in the sprint and he was satisfied with the silver medal. “This was almost a perfect race. You can try and plan it anyway you want, but on raceday it all needs to come together. The swim was very good and I was counting on a fast run, but the two French athletes were faster. Today Raphael was the strongest athlete in the race, so I need to be satisfied with silver.”

Related Event: 2014 Kitzbühel ETU Triathlon European Championships
20 - Jun, 2014 • event pageall results
Results: Elite Men
1. Alistair Brownlee GBR 01:54:08
2. Dmitry Polyanskiy RUS 01:54:35
3. Vicente Hernandez ESP 01:54:39
4. Fernando Alarza ESP 01:54:54
5. Alexander Bryukhankov RUS 01:55:07
6. David McNamee GBR 01:55:17
7. Alessandro Fabian ITA 01:55:25
8. Ivan Tutukin KAZ 01:55:36
9. Justus Nieschlag GER 01:55:45
10. Matthew Sharp GBR 01:55:48
Results: Elite Women
1. Nicola Spirig SUI 02:10:24
2. Sophia Saller GER 02:10:40
3. Annamaria Mazzetti ITA 02:10:58
4. Hanna Philippin GER 02:11:16
5. Lois Rosindale GBR 02:11:35
6. Rachel Klamer NED 02:11:47
7. Charlotte Bonin ITA 02:11:53
8. Elena Danilova RUS 02:11:54
9. Sara Vilic AUT 02:11:57
10. Mateja Šimic SLO 02:12:00
Results: Junior Men
1. Raphael Montoya FRA 00:57:43
2. Antonio Serrat Seoane ESP 00:57:47
3. Maxime Hueber-Moosbrugger FRA 00:57:53
4. Lasse Lührs GER 00:58:16
5. Bence Bicsák HUN 00:58:22
6. Jorik Van Egdom NED 00:58:24
7. Léo Bergere FRA 00:58:28
8. Lucas Jacolin FRA 00:58:30
9. Jonathan Wayaffe BEL 00:58:33
10. Ron Lewinsohn ISR 00:58:35
Results: Junior Women
1. Laura Lindemann GER 01:03:14
2. Audrey Merle FRA 01:03:19
3. Cassandre Beaugrand FRA 01:03:29
4. Ditte Kristensen DEN 01:04:22
5. Carmen Gomez Cortes ESP 01:04:42
6. Sophie Coldwell GBR 01:04:54
7. Angelica Olmo ITA 01:05:11
8. Therese Feuersinger AUT 01:05:23
9. Flóra Bicsák HUN 01:05:54
10. Lena Meißner GER 01:06:04
Results: 16-19 Female AG Sprint
1. Hannah Moser AUT 01:15:21
2. Lisa Totschnig AUT 01:16:32
3. Rosie Lindsay GBR 01:19:11
4. Emily Alderson GBR 01:19:53
5. Mona Ritter AUT 01:21:15
6. Sina Hinteregger AUT 01:21:59
7. Vivien Ploner AUT 01:23:53
8. Clover Murray GBR 01:24:37
9. Chanette Rog AUT 01:26:54
10. Carolina Sandhofer AUT 01:29:53
Results: 16-19 Male AG Sprint
1. Tom Stead GBR 01:05:12
2. Marcel Pachteu AUT 01:05:36
3. Tautvydas Kopustas LTU 01:05:40
4. Michael Singer AUT 01:07:01
5. Massimo Köstl AUT 01:07:41
6. Angus Smith GBR 01:08:02
7. Fergus Robinson GBR 01:08:09
8. Sean Wylie GBR 01:08:13
9. Julian Höllmüller AUT 01:08:49
10. Christopher Davies GBR 01:09:07