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Jenson Button posts personal best at the Mazda London Triathlon

Today saw current Formula One championship leader, Jenson Button (29), record a personal best at the Mazda London Triathlon – the world’s largest triathlon.

Today saw current Formula One championship leader, Jenson Button (29), record a personal best at the Mazda London Triathlon – the world’s largest triathlon. The British driver displayed his physical fitness and passion for the world’s fastest growing mass participation sport as he excelled at today’s event, recording a remarkable time of two hours, seven minutes and two seconds over the Olympic distance.

Button was joined in his race wave by British MotoGP 125cc rider, Bradley Smith, who recorded a total time of 2 hours, thirteen minutes and thirty six seconds. The motorsport pairing exchanged some pre and post race banter, but it was Button who finished as the narrow victor after both men put in impressive performances.

Button commented, “I had to wake up at 4am to get here this morning and I loved it – it has been my best ever Sunday morning. I enjoyed it today, it’s such an amazing event, it’s so big and it’s great that triathlon is doing so well in the UK. I hope that its growth continues.”

Of Bradley Smith, Button commented, “He did very well, he’s a fit lad and so am I and it’s great to show that at events like this. Our performance demonstrates that we do have to train hard to be an F1 driver or a MotoGP rider and that when we aren’t racing, we aren’t just at home sitting around and that we do have to be very fit in order to race at the level we do.”

In the elite field, Great Britain’s Will Clarke won the men’s race with Australian, Courtney Atkinson (2nd) and the overall British Triathlon Super Series winner, Stuart Hayes, finishing in third place. Great Britain’s current World Champion Helen Jenkins took the honours in the women’s elite race with Liz Blatchford (2nd) and Jodie Swallow (3rd) close behind.

Another familiar face around the course on Saturday was that of ex-England and British Lions winger, Rory Underwood, who completed the Olympic course in a time of three hours, ten minutes and twenty eight seconds. The former Royal Air Force Pilot was raising money for Help for Heroes and received great support as he completed his first Olympic distance triathlon.

In total, the weekend witnessed nearly ten thousand competitors taking part in the swim-bike-run event, with over fifty percent of those being triathlon first-timers. Starting and finishing at London’s ExCeL, the course spanned some of the city’s most renowned landmarks including the London Eye, Big Ben, and Tower Bridge. Over £3 million was raised for charity with over fifty five thousand spectators cheering on the competitors.

Male Elite

Name	Nation	Swim	T1	Bike	T2	Run	Total
Will Clarke	UK	00:18:46	00:01:34	00:54:39	00:01:47	00:27:45	01:44:29
Courtney Atkinson	AUS	00:18:33	00:01:38	00:54:49	00:01:45	00:28:05	01:44:48
Stuart Hayes	UK	00:18:39	00:01:38	00:54:40	00:01:47	00:28:42	01:45:25

Female

Name	Nation	Swim	T1	Bike	T2	Run	Total
Helen Jenkins	UK	00:19:51	00:01:52	01:00:42	00:02:03	00:31:44	01:56:09
Liz Blatchford	UK	TBC	TBC	TBC	TBC	TBC	01:56:46
Jodie Swallow	UK	00:19:51	00:01:52	01:00:44	00:02:03	00:32:26	01:56:53

Junior Male

Name	Nation	Swim	T1	Bike	T2	Run	Total
Peter Anderson	UK	00:10:05	00:01:40	00:37:31	00:01:50	00:16:21	01:07:25
Alexander Young	UK	00:01:11	00:01:47	00:39:23	00:01:55	00:15:09	01:08:23
Bradley T Hales	UK	00:09:39	00:02:02	00:37:39	00:02:02	00:17:07	01:08:27

Junior Female

Name	Nation	Swim	T1	Bike	T2	Run	Total
Hollie Avil	UK	00:10:27	00:01:46	00:40:30	00:01:59	00:15:52	01:10:32
Lois Rosindale	UK	00:11:02	00:01:52	00:42:22	00:01:58	00:17:00	01:14:13
Nicola Morgan	UK	00:10:59	00:02:01	00:42:16	00:01:57	00:17:09	01:14:20

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