Flora Duffy won a record fourth World Triathlon title after a long drawn battle with Georgia Taylor-Brown at the Yas Bay Waterfront in Abu Dhabi on Friday.
The Tokyo Olympic gold medallist was in top form throughout the 1.5-kilometre swim, 40km bike stage and the 10km run as she won the Abu Dhabi World Triathlon Championship Finals and the overall title in the women’s elite race.
It was Taylor-Brown who led the bike stage but Duffy caught up with the Briton in the first of the four laps of the running stage before pulling away to finish the final race of a remarkable 2022 in 1 hour 53 minutes and 24 seconds.
Taylor-Brown crossed the finish line a minute and four seconds behind followed by Lena Meissner of Germany, a further 2 minutes 35 seconds down in third.
American Taylor Knibb finished fourth and took the overall third spot behind Duffy and Taylor-Brown.
Duffy, 35, will certainly go down as one of the greatest triathletes ever after a record fourth world championship. She’s also the first woman ever to have won an Olympic and World title in the same year.
