Zoot Triathlon Courchevel 2013
Romain Guillaume and Laetitia Roux win the Zoot Triathlon Courchevel 2013.
Romain Guillaume and Laetitia Roux win the Zoot Triathlon Courchevel 2013.
On Saturday 20 July 2013 at 11 am, the Zoot Triathlon Courchevel S distance got under way on the Bozel lake, with a 750 m swim followed by a 17 km bike ride with 1,000 m of elevation gain to reach the Courchevel 1850 snow front, and finishing with a 6.3 km run (180 m of elevation gain/loss) around the resort.
Billed as the favourite of this first Zoot Triathlon Courchevel for several months, Romain Guillaume of team Zoot International and a member of the Triath’Lons club, winner as a pro of the Ironman Mont-Tremblant in Quebec and of the Tristar in Cannes last year, won in 1h23min18s and set the best bike time in 47min34s. Leo Bergère of Vallon de la Tour Triathlon took second place in 1h26min57s ahead of Kevin Rundstadler of ALE Echirolles, who finished third in 1h27min02s. Just 5 seconds behind, Robin Pasteur of the Saint-Raphaël Triathlon club finished just off the podium in 1h27min02s after leading out of the swim and setting the best swim time in 8min20s. The aquathlete Florian Schaffer of Trispiridon Oyonnax, with the best run time (23min30s), finished 9th. The under-25 Superstock 1000 motorcycle world champion and official BMW rider, Sylvain Barrier, took 18th place in 1h40min54s.
Among the women, it was Delphine Polin of ALE Echirolles, with the best women’s bike split (1h00min34s), who dominated the event with a time of 1h45min22s. With 1h45min53s, Maud Martin of the Echirolles Triathlon club took the second step of the podium and Yvonne Sheehy (1h53min13s) of the Chambéry Triathlon club completed the podium. The best swimmer, Emilie Darras, came out of the water in 10min32s and finished 6th overall.
On the run, it was the ten-time ski mountaineering world champion, Laetitia Roux, a member of Courchevel Sports Alpinisme, who set the best time (27min13s), enabling her team Team BV Sport Courchevel / Antibes, made up of Sylvain Frevent and Nicolas Raybaud, to take first place in the Mixed Trio category in 1h29min49s.
Among the women’s teams, it was the team Courchevel Girls with Murielle Henne, Christelle Houillon and Laurence Setiey that won in 2h07min41s in the Women’s Trio category.
The team Cimalpes, formed by Anthony Guerin, Olivier Builly and Julien Chamoux, won this triathlon in the Men’s Trio category with a time of 2h05min01s.
