{"id":6728,"date":"2020-11-12T09:23:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T09:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=6728"},"modified":"2020-11-12T09:23:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T09:23:46","slug":"alex-yee-wins-his-first-itu-world-cup-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=6728","title":{"rendered":"Alex Yee wins his first ITU World Cup race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p ><strong>Yee exited T2 in 34th\u00a0position, around 16 secs adrift of Schoeman and the leading pack, following a solid swim-bike effort.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p >And within minutes of the run, Yee had marked down his intent, picking off the field one by one until he reached and overtook the South African. There was no catching the Brit now, and he finished 16secs ahead of his rivals to take the title. The race was then on for silver and bronze with USA\u2019s Tony Smoragiewicz just edging out Portugal\u2019s Joao Silver after a sprint finish. Schoeman would finish fourth.<\/p>\n<p >Yee\u00a0said: \u201cI came here just to see how I was after four weeks in Stellenbosch training with the GB squad and it\u2019s worked out really well! The bike was tough but kudos to the guys I was with who all worked really hard. I always say that in tri, you need a little luck. Today it went my way.<\/p>\n<div    >\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p >\u201cI had a nightmare transition but apart form that I\u2019m really happy. The headwind left me flagging in the second half, but I did my best to run strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p >India Lee was Britain\u2019s sole female representative, finishing 15th\u00a0in a race won by Japan\u2019s Ai Ueda.<\/p>\n<p ><strong>Discovery Triathlon World Cup Cape Town RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p ><strong>Men\u2019s race<\/strong><\/p>\n<p ><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alex Yee, GBR, 52:04<\/p>\n<p><strong>T<\/strong>ony Smoragiewicz, USA, 52:19<br \/>\nJoao Silva, POR, 52:19<\/p>\n<p ><strong>Women\u2019s race<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p ><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ai Ueda, JPN, 57:23<br \/>\nSummer Rappaport, USA, 57:31<br \/>\nTamara Gorman, USA, 57:44<\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p >15. India Lee, GBR, 58:59<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClick Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.ifootballshop.com\/liverpool-424.html' title='liverpool mens jersey'>liverpool mens jersey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yee exited T2 in 34th\u00a0position, around 16 secs adrift of Schoeman and the leading pack, following a solid swim-bike effort. Advertisement And within minutes of the run, Yee had marked down his intent, picking off the field one by one until he reached and overtook the South African. There was no catching the Brit now,&#8230;<\/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-6728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728","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=6728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}