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British Elite Duathlon Championships kick-off 2012 season
The British Elite Duathlon Championships will start the 2012 elite season when over 200 athletes race at Prestwold Hall Airfield in Loughborough on Sunday 25 March.
In 2011, trigold graduate Mark Buckingham narrowly beat Todd Leckie to claim his first title in the sport. Mark added his name to an illustrious list of recent winners including current triathlon world champion, Alistair Brownlee and former triathlon world champion, Tim Don.
It was a good year for Mark, who also came fourth in the British Elite Triathlon Championships and finished seventh overall in the hotly contested 2011 edition of the British Triathlon Super Series.
In the women's event, Non Stanford had an equally close finish beating Gillian Saunders to the title by just three seconds. Non went on to have a successful season taking top-10 finishes at the ITU Triathlon World Cup in Ishigaki, the ITU Triathlon European Cup in Antalya and the ITU Sprint Triathlon Pan American Cup in Clermont.
The event will also see some of Britain's finest youngsters compete at the British Elite Duathlon Youth and Junior Championships, which is also the inaugural race of the 2012 British Triathlon Youth and Junior Super Series. Sky Draper and Miles Burton won last year's youth races with Lucy Hall and Matthew Wright claiming the junior titles.
Both Miles and Lucy went on to win the overall 2011 British Triathlon Youth and Junior Super Series titles respectively, proving the early season duathlon can be a good indicator for which athletes to watch for the rest of the season.
Ian Braid, British Triathlon Director for Major and National Events is delighted that the 2012 elite season is getting underway commenting: "The British Elite Duathlon Championships have given us some exciting races and I expect 2012's event to be just as memorable. This year is going to be an exciting year for British Triathlon with the Olympic Triathlon events on the 4 and 7 August, and I am confident that our event in March will get the season off to a great start."
The event is organised by Just Racing (UK) on behalf of British Triathlon. For more information or to enter please visit: www..justracinguk.com.
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