{"id":7858,"date":"2021-03-15T04:05:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T04:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=7858"},"modified":"2021-03-15T04:05:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T04:05:46","slug":"wts-hamburg-zaferes-wins-her-first-wts-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=7858","title":{"rendered":"WTS Hamburg: Zaferes wins her first WTS event"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is nothing unusual about seeing a USA athlete on the top of the podium but this time it was Katie Zaferes\u00a0taking the top spot instead of Gwen Jorgensen, who had to settle for third place. In a great performance Rachel Klamer\u00a0from The Netherlands took second and her first podium finish.<\/p>\n

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Jorgensen was always the favourite for WTS Hamburg, which was raced over the sprint distance, but both\u00a0Zaferes\u00a0and Klamer\u00a0had a great swim leg exiting in the lead group behind Britain\u2019s Lucy Hall, and from then on never lost their command of the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They formed a lead group of eight on the bike leg which included Hall, Charlotte Bonin, Mari Rabie, and Caroline Routia and quickly managed to gain a lead of about 30 seconds on the first chase group which contained Gwen Jorgensen. \u00a0Initially Helen Jenkins and Jodie Stimpson were in the second chase group, but then the two groups merged and the pair came to the front to try and push the pace.<\/p>\n

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To have any chance of making the podium Jenkins and Stimpson had to make a break on the bike but just could not dent Zaferes and Klamer\u2019s\u00a0advantage and they entered the run leg with a 45 second lead. Stimpson and Jenkins entered the run ahead of the running machine Jorgensen who had entered the run leg at the back of the pack, but could just not keep her at bay.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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However despite some some serious running from Jorgensen, which saw her complete the 5km in just 15:43 she just could not catch\u00a0Zaferes and\u00a0Klamer and in the final stages\u00a0Zaferes proved she had more left in her legs and made a move away from Klamer to secure her first WTS victory with Klamer in second.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI am so excited! The first part, this beginning of the year was not what I wanted, said Zaferes.\u00a0\u201cI was not the Katie that I know I am, and today I just raced like me and I got the reward and it was awesome!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI just decided to keep it simple, I had been overthinking stuff at the beginning of the year and today I just was going to go as hard as I can in the swim, bike and run and that is what I did and I believed in myself. This is exactly what I needed just going into Rio, is just to see that I was the same person that I was last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am really happy, I can\u2019t describe it,\u201d said Klamer.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe last couple of years I have made progress and this morning I was talking with Richard (Murray) and I was like \u2018one day I want to be on that podium\u2019, thought it probably would not be today, but maybe in a year from now. But when we were racing in the swim, which actually I was most worried about, I felt like I had a good position so just had to keep working on it. And then on the bike, the girls were working together, which was really good and then on the run when I looked back I thought, \u2018well today must be that day\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This is the second time Jorgensen has been beaten this year after Jenkins beat her in Gold Coast<\/p>\n

Despite being beaten by Jorgensen Stimpson had a great run leg to finish in 4th\u00a0meaning she now lies second in the series behind current leader Flora Duffy, while\u00a0\u00a0Helen Jenkins finished in 14th and Lucy Hall finished 20th.<\/p>\n

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There is nothing unusual about seeing a USA athlete on the top of the podium but this time it was Katie Zaferes\u00a0taking the top spot instead of Gwen Jorgensen, who had to settle for third place. In a great performance Rachel Klamer\u00a0from The Netherlands took second and her first podium finish. Advertisement Jorgensen was always…<\/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-7858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858","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=7858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}