Showing off his unbelievable run expertise, Great Britain’s Hugo Milner proved his end of season success in 2023 was no fluke, as the Derby native took his veryfirst win of the year at the Europe Triathlon Cup Quarteira.
Reeling in two-time world champ Vincent Luis with a lightning fast run split, Milner showed assoonas onceagain to Team GB selectors that he oughtto most definitely be thoughtabout for the Olympic group in Paris.
In the females’s race, Olympic medalists Cassandre Beaugrand and Georgia Taylor-Brown were both wardedoff by Lisa Tertsch of Germany, who took the win after a amazing run.
Milner divides ridiculous 10km leg
Racing over the Olympic range in Quarteira, some of the finest in the world gotridof the dissatisfaction of WTCS Abu Dhabi’s cancellation and cleaned off the cobwebs on the Algarve.
Leading out of the water, Britain’s Marcus Dey was accountable for a fast early rate, endingup the 1500m swim in 16:32 Coming into T1, 12 guys consistingof Luis were within 20 seconds of the front.
Further back, Milner had left himself with a considerable quantity of work to do, with the Harvard graduate down +0: 55 and sitting in around 35th location. Fortunately, the 25-year-old had plenty of professionalathletes around him in the chase pack.
Over the 40km bike nevertheless, regardlessof their finest efforts, the chase pack couldn’t make up enough ground on a front group of 15 professionalathletes, with Luis signedupwith by fellow French pros Aurelien Jem, Yanis Seguin and Louis Vitiella in the front pack.
With more than half a minute to make up, Milner would have to clock a sub-30: 00 run split to even make the podium, however showed he was more than up to the job, as over the course of the veryfirst 8km he reeled in Luis and Jem.
Kicking clear over the last lap, the Brit ended up taking a comfy win, regardlessof being on the back foot all day, thanks to an amazing 29: 32 run split, which was the quickest by over 30 seconds.
Holding off his compatriot, Luis protected 2nd in his veryfirst race because last summerseason, with Jem coming home in 3rd to take his veryfirst continental cup podium giventhat2018
GTB back with a bang in Portugal
Despite not rather having the endingup speed to kick for the win in Quarteira, Taylor-Brown will take a enormous self-confidence increase from pressing Paris Olympic qualifiers Tertsch and Beaugrand so close in Portugal.
Strong throughout the board, the Brit came out of the water togetherwith Beaugrand, biked in the front group and simply lost out in a three-way sprint for the line in her veryfirst race because June2023
As far as the race for the 2 staying slots on the British Team to Paris goes, her efficiency in Qu