Triathlon, January 11, 2013: The Gold Coast’s three-time ITU World champion Bill Chaffey displayed all of his world champion qualities to win the inaugural Australian Paratriathlon Championship at Sydney’s International Regatta Centre, Penrith today.
Chaffey took out the Tri 1 category ahead of his hero, Sydney’s 46-year-old legendary Paralympian John Maclean and London Paralympic rowing silver medallist Erik Horrie.
Chaffey, 37, swam strongly and was one of the first out of the water after the 750m swim before taking control with a powerful 20km bike leg and finishing off with a slick 5km wheelchair ride in a time of 1 minute 02.58 secs, with Maclean (1:12.06) holding off Horrie (1:12.38).
The former Bilambil Heights champion triathlete was left seriously injured on a training ride when he suffered four broken bones in his back, and broken elbows and pelvis, after an accident between a light truck and his bike on near Chinderah in 2005 – leaving him a paraplegic.
Chaffey will now set himself for the Cairns Ironman Triathlon on June 9 in an all-out effort to qualify for his first Hawiian Ironman Triathlon, before the ITU World Championships in London in September and his long term goal to contest the first ever Paratriathlon at the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
Other winners on the day were: Men’s Tri 2: Michael Milton (Ainslie, ACT); Men’s Tri 4: Dale Grant (Mount Waverley, VIC); Men’s Tri 5: Justin Godfrey (Albury, NSW); Men’s Tri 6: Jonathan Goerlach (North Nowra, NSW); Women’s Tri 3: Debbie Wendt (Morayfield, QLD); Women’s Tri 4: Claire McLean (Carlisle, WA) and Women’s Tri 6: Lindy Hou (Hawker, ACT).
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