{"id":6649,"date":"2020-11-11T22:58:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T22:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=6649"},"modified":"2020-11-11T22:58:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T22:58:47","slug":"anne-haug-takes-kona-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=6649","title":{"rendered":"Anne Haug takes Kona victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anne Haug today made it a German sweep of the top step of the Ironman World Championship podium, crossing the line in 8:40hrs to win her first Kona title after Jan Frodeno had scored victory in\u00a0the men\u2019s race. Haug would pass Britain\u2019s Lucy Charles-Barclay halfway through the run to deny Britain a first Kona crown since 2012.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The talk ahead of the women\u2019s Ironman World Championships race was largely centred on the battle between four-time Kona champ and Swiss athlete Daniela Ryf and Britain\u2019s Lucy Charles-Barclay. The latter had led out of the swim and for the vast majority of the bike for the past two editions of Hawaii, but Ryf had run her way to Kona glory.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Once again, @LucyAnneCharles first out of the women\u2019s swim, this year in 49:07. #IMwc2019 pic.twitter.com\/XBwCTCwRPD<\/p>\n

\u2014 220Triathlon (@220Triathlon) October 12, 2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The big swell on the swim saw Charles post a slightly slower time than in 2018, coming out of the 3.8km swim in 49:02mins, first female and ninth overall including the men\u2019s field. At the halfway point of the 180km bike, Charles, 26, was leading by 5mins over Germany\u2019s Anne Haug, 36, a formidable runner on both the ITU and Ironman circuit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Ryf, who looked to be suffering, was back by 8mins and failing to gain time on the leading riders, with the deficit extending to 10mins by the three-quarter 135km stage.<\/p>\n

Charles had said at the press conference on Thursday that \u201cthe fire was in her belly\u201d after a drafting violation put paid to her chances of Ironman 70.3 World Championships at Nice in September. Lucy would arrive into T2 after 4:47:21 on the bike, chased down by the German pair of Daniela Bleymehl and Haug. Ryf was an unheard of 12:55mins in arrears. Could Charles-Barclay become the first Brit winner since Leanda Cave in 2012?<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s @LucyAnneCharles on Ali\u2019i Drive, 7mins ahead of Anne Haug #IMwc2019 pic.twitter.com\/ryyEuV2MEc<\/p>\n

\u2014 220Triathlon (@220Triathlon) October 12, 2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When the mercury rising, the Kona marathon run saw Haug whittle down Charles-Barclay\u2019s lead of 7mins to 5mins by a third of the way through. Charles-Barclay had run two sub-3hr Ironman marathons in 2019 and she\u2019d need to again in Kona to hold off Haug\u2019s challenge. By the halfway stage of the marathon run, the Brit\u2019s lead had been whittled down to 2mins by Haug and 4:30mins by Aussie Sarah Crowley.<\/p>\n

Haug would finally make the pass in the Energy Lab, with Charles-Barclay having held the lead for over seven hours. The German would cross the line in 8:40hrs to take Germany\u2019s first women\u2019s Kona title; her marathon run leg was 2:51:07.<\/p>\n

Charles-Barclay was passed by Crowley but dug in to retake second spot and hold on for her third consecutive second-placed finish in Hawaii after an 8:46hr finish. Crowley was third.<\/p>\n

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Anne Haug decisively passes Lucy Charles-Barclay on the run to take the lead at the 2019 @VegaTeam IRONMAN World Championship! #IMWC #AnythingisPossible #VegaTeam pic.twitter.com\/epAVg9wRby<\/p>\n

\u2014 IRONMAN Triathlon (@IRONMANtri) October 13, 2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

WHO IS ANNE HAUG?<\/p>\n

Half a decade ago, Anne Haug was one of the most consistently strong athletes on the ITU circuit. The German won the Grand Final in 2012 to finish second overall in the WTS standings and followed that with two WTS wins and five podiums in 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A stress fracture in her hip in both 2014 put paid to the German\u2019s winning-WTS form, and she contemplated quitting the sport for good. But she soon become a 70.3 powerhouse due to her half-marathon run split, and recorded victories at Ironman 70.3 Lanzarote, 70.3 Dubai and 70.3 Oceanside in 2017.<\/p>\n

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The German made her full-distance debut at Ironman Frankfurt in 2018, where she finished just off the podium, before coming third at Kona 2018 after the day\u2019s fastest women\u2019s run split of 2:55hrs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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She\u2019s also coached by Dan Lorang, a man who knows a thing of two about converting ITU athletes into Ironman greats (see also one Jan Frodeno).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anne Haug today made it a German sweep of the top step of the Ironman World Championship podium, crossing the line in 8:40hrs to win her first Kona title after Jan Frodeno had scored victory in\u00a0the men\u2019s race. Haug would pass Britain\u2019s Lucy Charles-Barclay halfway through the run to deny Britain a first Kona crown…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}