Congrats to everyone who raced in the Capital of Texas Triathlon yesterday, and especially to paratriathlete Patricia Walsh, who defended her national championship among visually impaired athletes.
For the first time this year, the 2012 USA Paratriathlon National Championship was held in conjunction with the Cap Tex Tri. National titles were awarded in six divisions, and division winners also earned spots on the USA Paratriathlon National Team, which will compete at the ITU Paratriathlon World Championships in Auckland, New Zealand, on Oct. 22.
“We all have our eye on the prize; I can’t wait,” Walsh said in press release from USA Triathlon. “To be able to come back and be the national champion a second year in a row in what is now my hometown — it’s one of the real highlights of my athletic career.”
The paratriathletes swam 750 meters, biked 20 kilometers and ran 5 kilometers.
Paratriathlon will make its debut at the Paralympic Summer Games in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, a goal for many paratriathletes racing in Austin.
Here are the winners of the 2012 USA Partriathlon National Championship:
- Female TRI-1: Erica Davis (Carlsbad, Calif.), 1:45:57
- Male TRI-1: Geoffrey Kennedy (Rio Grande, Puerto Rico), 1:10:47
- Female TRI-2: Melissa Stockwell (Chicago, Ill.), 1:33:56
- Male TRI-2: Mark Barr (Galveston, Texas), 1:27:09
- Female TRI-3: Beth Price (Spanish Fort, Ala.), 1:39:17
- Male TRI-3: Sean Vangerena (Orlando, Fla.), 1:14:53
- Female TRI-4: Robin Caruso (Ridgefield, Conn.), 1:29:49
- Male TRI-4: Daniel Hathorn (Virginia Beach, Va.), 1:08:41
- Female TRI-5: Patricia Collins (Harker Heights, Texas), 1:22:20
- Male TRI-5: James Brown (Carlsbad, Calif.), 1:15:00
- Female TRI-6: Patricia Walsh (Austin, Texas), 1:18:28
- Male TRI-6: Jeremy Winters (Murfreesboro, Tenn.), 1:24:31
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