Eventful week for Bahrain Endurance 13 Elite team

Manama

Guided and supported by His Majesty the King’s Representative for Charity Works and Youth Affairs, Supreme Council for Youth and Sports Chairman and Bahrain Olympic Committee President, Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa and members of Bahrain Endurance 13 Elite Team achieved a series of titles in different countries during the past week.
Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa had a great performance placed 13^th and qualified for the Ironman 70.3 World Championship at Zell Am See-Kaprun, Austria for the first time in the history of Bahraini triathlon sports.
In his quest to retain his number one world ranking and defend his title at the World Triathlon Series race in Yokohama, Japan, Bahrain Endurance 13 Elite Team star Javier Gomez out-sprinted Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee in the final kilometer of the run, in a display of how he would have wanted the London Olympics race to play out and how he visualizes the upcoming competition in the 2016 Olympics in Rio De Janeiro will be.
Meanwhile, Terenzo Bozzone toughed out a third-place finish in Tennessee, US at Ironman 70.3 Chattanooga, marking his fourth straight race weekend and podium appearance.
Ben Hoffman also put in a gutsy performance at Ironman Texas that had him in the lead on the bike, forcing the race’s eventual winner to work harder to overtake him. Fellow team member David Plese finished in ninth place in the same competition.
Bahrain Endurance 13 Elite Team champion Sebastian Kienle scored a sentimental victory at the TV Forst Triathlon, Germany. He said, “Twenty-three years ago I did my first triathlon in Forst. It was not a race, it was a fitness triathlon and you could start whenever you like. I had to skip the swim because the water was very cold and I did not have a wetsuit. Today I won the short distance TV Forst Triathlon.”
On his part, Jan Frodeno’s win at Ironman 70.3 Barcelona came with an amazing run split at 1:13:03 hours on the half-marathon run leg which is, another step towards his quest to win the Ironman World Championship in Kona, US.
The success of Bahrain Endurance 13 Elite Team members is also the Gulf region’s gain and plans are in progress to bring these world-beaters to Bahrain to help with junior development.
This gives Bahraini athletes access to the world’s best to learn from and be inspired by them, setting them on pathways for progress and success in endurance racing.