Can Sebastian Kienle right a ‘wrong’ at Challenge St Pölten?

Sebastian Kienle heads the lads’s enviornment at Articulate St Pölten this weekend, bidding to moral what he – and others – feels changed into as soon as a substandard.

The triathlon legend is taking half in a farewell season as a authentic, ticking off various bucket checklist races and he regarded to be in with a mighty likelihood of adding but every other victory to his unbelievable palmares at Articulate Fréjus final Sunday.

For he’d labored his method into the lead on the bike simplest to be hit with a controversial 5-minute drafting penalty.

‘Difficult to swallow’

After paying tribute to eventual winner Bart Aernouts, he talked about of that episode: “Right here’s for streak complicated to swallow, it leaves a bitter taste because I felt no doubt correct and I hope I attain next week.”

Seven days on he’ll line up within the Austrian geographical region in a urge that you must glimpse stay during the video embed below – with the English language commentary coming from our Chief Correspondent John Levison.

But he’s not going to bear things all his possess method as fellow Germans Nicolas Mann (winner one year ago) and Ruben Zepuntke line up towards him.

All thrive on the bike and flee so the testing St Pölten course ought to play to their strengths – and Kienle’s.

And Mann comes goes there in top abolish following his first IRONMAN 70.3 victory at Marbella just a few weeks ago the put he attacked on the bike and unfolded what would expose to be a decisive gap.

Kiley and Iemmolo stand out

In the girls folks’s urge, Australian Renee Kiley and France’s Julie Iemmolo, third at Articulate Fréjus, are amongst the favourites. Witness out too for Germany’s Daniela Kleiser. The Age-Neighborhood winner at each the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship and Articulate Family’s The Championship in 2021, she changed into as soon as not too prolonged ago third at IRONMAN 70.3 Marbella – and is a extraordinarily quick runner too.

And in a crash from the norm, ‘females first’ is the motto on urge day when because the authentic female athletes will soar into the Ratzersdorfer Mediate about first at 7am local time and open the urge.

The authentic men and your complete AG athlete enviornment will most definitely be conscious 20 minutes later.

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