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Emma Snowsill of Australia Wins Women's Olympic Triathlon

posted August 18, 2008 - 1:28am
Emma Snowsill of Australia Wins Women's Olympic Triathlon

Australian Emma Snowsill captured the gold medal in the women's triathlon at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Her winning time of 1:58:27.66 was a little over a minute better than the silver medalist, Vanessa Fernandes of Portugal.

Snowsill's Australian teammate Emma Moffatt finished in third place to take the bronze medal. Coming in fourth was American Laura Bennett. You can find the complete results here: http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/TR/C73B/TRW001101.shtml#TRW001101

Snowsill make a remarkable recovery in the running portion of the race; she was in fifth place coming out of the transition from bike to run.

The women's Olympic triathlon consisted of a 1.5 kilometer swim, a 40 kilometer bike ride, and a 10 kilometer run.

Fifty-one athletes started the Olympic triathlon; there were 45 finishers.

Author: Idlewild
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mythman - Wed, 2008-20-8 4:18 pm
I thought I would give some annoying hint like, "Emma Snowsill, The First Otter?" in the subject, but I'll be direct. ... signed, Uncle MythMan---Big Fan of stars like Tori Spelling, Fussin`, Vanessa Montagne & Lena Li--Xombie Plan

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