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Aussie Matt Hauser dominates in Rotterdam to win Junior World Crown

By Chelsea White | 16 Sep, 2017
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Aussie Matthew Hauser added another world championship title to his resume after claiming victory as the Junior World Champion at the 2017 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final. While in July he was a member of the Mixed Relay World Championship team where he earned his first world gold, Hauser repeated his success by delivering a dominating performance in the grand final to collect his second world title of the year, this time in the junior men’s race.

Aussie Matthew Hauser added another world championship title to his resume after claiming victory as the Junior World Champion at the 2017 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final. While in July he was a member of the Mixed Relay World Championship team where he earned his first world gold, Hauser repeated his success by delivering a dominating performance in the grand final to collect his second world title of the year, this time in the junior men’s race.

“It means a lot mate. I really wanted to turn around from last year’s poor result in Cozumel. I just executed the process and everything worked out well for me on the day. It has been a 12-month preparation for me and I have had a few setbacks, but it has been great year all-around in total, two world titles now for me with the team mixed relay, it is just unbelievable,” Hauser said of how he felt about winning the championship.

Claiming the silver medal was Portugal’s Vasco Vilaca, earning medal rights in his first world championship race. While third then went to Ben Dijkstra of Great Britain, who repeated the junior world championship bronze that he also received in Cozumel last year.

The junior men’s race kicked off the second day of competition at the grand final Rotterdam event. While the early morning start brought with it some rain clouds, the energy was bright and sunny as the first round of world champions would be crowned.

The roster of 79 men dove into the water to take on just a one lap 750-metre swim. Hauser led out of the water and through the first transition. With a tight group of men trailing just behind him, it made for conditions for the lead bike pack to contain double digits in riders.

Once onto the lap portion of the bike, the front pack grouped 12 men together with Hauser leading the charge. After only one lap down the group whittled down to nine, which contained names such as Hauser, Vilaca, Vetle Bergsvik Thorn (NOR), Endre Espedal (NOR), Chase Mcqueen (USA) and James Chantler (GBR).

The pack then stayed together, gaining ground on a small chase pack led by Dijkstra who was 22 seconds back.

Entering into the second transition area, the leaders had increased their gap to about 48 seconds to get in front on the run.

Hauser and Espedal took off once on foot and started inching away a healthy lead. However, Hauser wasted no time and quickly broke away from Espedal and became the race leader.

His lead then never faltered and he carried it home to the finish line to snag his first junior world title.

The battle for the remaining spots on the podium was behind him. Vasco pushed hard on the first run lap to position him in second, which he held onto to earn the silver. While Dijkstra had a breakthrough run to finish off the podium. After lap one he was still in the seventh position after having to make up time from the bike. It was in the final kilometre where he picked off three men in front of him to enter the finish chute in third overall.

Related Event: 2017 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Rotterdam
14 - Sep, 2017 • event pageall results
Results: Elite Men
3. Mario Mola ESP 01:51:36
4. Javier Gomez Noya ESP 01:51:41
6. Richard Murray RSA 01:52:06
11. Fernando Alarza ESP 01:52:52
2. Kristian Blummenfelt NOR 01:51:28
5. Jonathan Brownlee GBR 01:51:52
23. Ryan Sissons NZL 01:54:59
10. Thomas Bishop GBR 01:52:34
7. Pierre Le Corre FRA 01:52:31
DNF. Jacob Birtwhistle AUS DNF
Results: Elite Women
1. Flora Duffy BER 01:58:39
2. Katie Zaferes USA 01:59:34
3. Jessica Learmonth GBR 02:00:57
4. Kirsten Kasper USA 02:01:29
5. Joanna Brown CAN 02:01:47
6. Ashleigh Gentle AUS 02:02:00
7. Rachel Klamer NED 02:02:09
8. Jodie Stimpson GBR 02:02:20
9. Summer Rappaport USA 02:02:30
10. Jolanda Annen SUI 02:02:43
Results: U23 Men
1. Raphael Montoya FRA 01:51:28
2. Dorian Coninx FRA 01:51:32
3. Luke Willian AUS 01:51:48
4. Shachar Sagiv ISR 01:51:59
5. Antonio Serrat Seoane ESP 01:52:22
6. Léo Bergere FRA 01:52:48
7. Gordon Benson GBR 01:53:08
8. Jonas Schomburg GER 01:53:15
9. Sylvain Fridelance SUI 01:53:32
10. Delian Stateff ITA 01:53:34
Results: U23 Women
1. Tamara Gorman USA 02:05:21
2. Melanie Santos POR 02:05:37
3. Sophie Coldwell GBR 02:05:51
4. Georgia Taylor-Brown GBR 02:06:16
5. Julie Derron SUI 02:06:34
6. Leonie Periault FRA 02:06:44
7. Zsanett Kuttor-Bragmayer HUN 02:06:51
8. Cassandre Beaugrand FRA 02:07:04
9. Sian Rainsley GBR 02:07:11
10. Vittoria Lopes BRA 02:07:17
Results: Junior Men
1. Matthew Hauser AUS 00:55:54
2. Vasco Vilaca POR 00:56:22
3. Ben Dijkstra GBR 00:56:35
4. James Chantler-Mayne GBR 00:56:41
5. Vetle Bergsvik Thorn NOR 00:56:43
6. Barclay Izzard GBR 00:56:44
7. Csongor Lehmann HUN 00:56:50
8. Endre Espedal NOR 00:56:57
9. Javier Romo Oliver ESP 00:57:00
10. Simon Westermann SUI 00:57:12
Results: Junior Women
1. Taylor Knibb USA 01:01:22
2. Kate Waugh GBR 01:01:38
3. Fuka Sega JPN 01:02:05
4. Therese Feuersinger AUT 01:02:24
5. Hannah Knighton NZL 01:02:24
6. Olivia Mathias GBR 01:02:42
7. Lena Meißner GER 01:02:55
8. Desirae Ridenour CAN 01:03:02
9. Hye Rim Jeong KOR 01:03:05
10. Kira Hedgeland AUS 01:03:15