IRONMAN TAUPO

New Zealand's Jack Moody and Sweden's Anna Bergsten have claimed convincing victories at the 2022 Nutri-Grain IRONMAN 70.3 New Zealand held in Taupō today.

I felt already in the morning when I was warming up that I had good run legs, so I just went with it and just kind of enjoyed it quite a lot.” “I’ve always wanted to come to New Zealand, my whole family has been here when they were younger and I’m the only one who hasn’t been here, so I really wanted to go a couple of years ago but that didn’t happen,” she said. Then I think Charlie or Sam, one of them got on my wheel and I heard a penalty go behind me, the whistle blew, so someone must’ve got too close I don’t know who it was, if it was one or two of them, which is a shame, but it allowed me to get a big lead coming into T2 and settle in for a long run,” says Moody. Behind him, Osborne fell foul to a drafting penalty while Phillips used his Tour of Southland stamina to power through the field to leave himself second by the Reporoa turnaround. It kind of cements what I’m doing now and how hard I’ve been working this year and what I’ve thrown into the sport, and where I might go next year,” says Moody. The trio were quickly through transition one, with Moody nearly a minute down but in hot pursuit.