{"id":11858,"date":"2021-05-08T07:40:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T07:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incirliseviye.com\/?p=11858"},"modified":"2021-05-08T07:40:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T07:40:39","slug":"britains-emma-pooley-wins-challenge-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=11858","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s Emma Pooley wins Challenge Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p ><strong>Just six months after retiring from professional cycling, Britain\u2019s Olympic silver medallist Emma Pooley claimed gold at long-distance triathlon Challenge Philippines last weekend despite some hot and challenging conditions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote  lang=\"en\">\n<p>Just thought you should know @PooleyEmma is still kicking ass on a bike. With that swim &amp; run stuff on either side. pic.twitter.com\/SNAwj21vZV<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kathryn Bertine (@KathrynBertine) February 21, 2015<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p >Pooley, 32, placed third at the same event last year, but this time managed to take victory by a margin of more than 10mins over nearest rival Kelly Williamson (USA). Britain\u2019s Parys Edwards rounded out the podium with third place.<\/p>\n<p >\u201cIt was tough but honest course and beautiful,\u201d said Pooley afterwards. \u201cI came back to try and win and I really had a good day!\u201d The former world champion time triallist took 32:50mins to cover the 1.9km swim, then proceeded to smash the challenging 90km bike course with a split of 2:40:38.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div    >\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p >She arrived in T2 comfortably with a 7:38mins lead over her compatriot Edwards, and completed the 21.1km run in 1:25hrs to cross the line for a convincing win. Edwards was overhauled by Williamson on the run and crossed the line just a minute behind her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p >In the men\u2019s race, Italy\u2019s Domenico Passuello \u2013 also a former pro cyclist turned triathlete \u2013 took the title with a time of 4:04:22, finishing around 5mins ahead of Danish athlete Rasmus Petraeus after catching him on the bike. Third place was taken by Mitch Robbins (AUS).<\/p>\n<p >For the full results head here.<\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p ><em><strong>Did you race Challenge Philippines? Let us know in the comments below!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just six months after retiring from professional cycling, Britain\u2019s Olympic silver medallist Emma Pooley claimed gold at long-distance triathlon Challenge Philippines last weekend despite some hot and challenging conditions. Advertisement Just thought you should know @PooleyEmma is still kicking ass on a bike. With that swim &amp; run stuff on either side. pic.twitter.com\/SNAwj21vZV \u2014 Kathryn &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=11858\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Britain\u2019s Emma Pooley wins Challenge Philippines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}