The third stage of the "Around Taihu 2015" starts in Qionglong: a hilly course go and back of 6km  for a total of 12 km, many of which uo and down. 

 

 

10 Km Elite men

 

The usual group composed of Wang Zhen, Luo Yadong, Petr Trofimov, Evan Dunfee, Liu Meng, the Colombian Eider Arevalo, the Australian Dane Bird-Smith , Ukrainians Nazar Kovalenko, Ivan Losev, Igor Glavan and Sergii Budza are the leaders until the first lap.

 

Toward the seventh km Dane Bird-Smith, Wang Zhen, Igor Glavan and Eider Arevalo force the pace and gain some meters. 

We arrive to the final part where we are witnessing the usual final battle of the day that today is resolved in favor of Wang Zhen in front of Igor Glavan and Dane Bird-Smith while Eider Arevalo is penalized by 30" and the Chinese Luo Yadong by 90" while they were with the first: they arrive respectively sixth and thirteenth.

 

 

Arrival order after penalties is the following:

 

1.- Wang Zhen - CHN in 49:16

2.- Igor Glavan - UKR in 49:19

3.- Dane Bird-Smith - AUS in 49:25

4.- Evan Dunfee - CAN in 49:27

5.- Nazar Kovalenko - UKR in 49:43

6.- Eider Arevalo - COL in 49:55

7.- Petr Trofimov - RUS in 50:21

8.- Caio Bonfim - BRA in 50:20

 

 

Summry after three days

 

1.- Wang Zgen - CHN in 2:11:27

2.- Dane Bird-Smith - AUS in 2.11:45

3.- Eider Arevalo - COL in 2:12:26

4.- Nazar Kovalenko - UKR in 2:13:

5.- Evan Dunfee - CAN in 2:13:29

6.- Petr Trofimov - RUS in 2:14:00

7.- Igor Glavan - UKR in 2:14:14

8.- Sergii Budza - UKR in 2:14:33

 

 

Team Summary 

 

1.- X-treme Beef (Bird-Smith, Sudol, Arevalo, Karlstrom): 6:40:15

2.- P-U Ukraine (Kovalenko, Losev, Kovenko, Kazanin):  6:43:42

3.- Ukraine (Glavan, Banzeruk, Budza): 6:44:29

4.- China (Wang, Luo, Xie, Li): 6:48:24

5.- Team ASICS (Tallent, Gomez, Dunfee, Rew, Bosworth): 6:49:40

6- Russia (Trofimov, Korepanov, Kirill): 6:57:46

7.- TJN - China (Du, Luo, Hou, Tong, Liu): 7:04:59

8.- YNN - China (Su, Yang, He, Yang, Meng): 7:05:59

 

 

 

10 km Elite women

 

Immediately go to lead the pair formed from Chinese Qieyang Shenjie and the Ukrainian Lyudmyla Olyanovska in turn followed by Lithuanian Brigita Virbalyte and other Chinese Mao Yanxue, Wang Yingliu and the other  Ukrainian Nadiya Borovska.

Then follow Russian Nadezhda Sergeeva and Hungarian Viktoria Madarasz.

 

Until 7th km the duo is together, shortly after also today will be the Ukrainian to force the pace for the victory on the bronze of London.

Very nice the race of Lithuanian Brigita Virbalyte and Hungarian Viktoria Viktor Madarász ending on the third and fifth place, while the fourth comes to the Russian Nadezhda Sergeeva

 

 

Arrival order:

 

1.- Lydmyla Olyanovska - UKR in 51:31

2.- Qieyang Shenjie - CHN in 51:50

3.- Brigita Virbalyte - LTU in 52:49

4.- Nadezhda Sergeeva - RUS in 52:55

5.- Viktoria Madarasz - HUN in 53:10

6.- Mao Yanxue - CHN in 53:32

7.- Nadiya Borovska - UKR in 53:59

8.- Agnieszka Dygacz - POL in 54:25

 

 

Summary after three days

 

1.- Lydmyla Olyanovska - UKR in 2:18:31

2.- Qieyang Shenjie - CHN in 2:19:27

3.- Brigita Virbalyte - LTU in 2:22:18

4.- Nadezhda Sergeeva - RUS in 2:23:13

5.- Victoria Madarasz - HUN in 2:23:54

6.- Nadiya Borovska - UKR in 2:23:58

7.- Mao Yanxue - CHN in 2:25:10

8.- Wang Yingliu - CHN in 2:25:46

 

 

Team Summary

 

1.- China (Qieyang, Duan, Mao, Xie): 7:10:58

2.- Ukraine (Kashyna, Olyanovska, Borovska): 7:11:55

3.- Poland-LHP (Dygacz, Aidietyte, Virbalyte, Madarasz): 7:14:11

4.- Russia PGI Inter (Sergeeva, Korotkova, Feitor, Pinedo): 7:29:26

5.- Poland (Szwarnog, Kapera, Buziak, Golba): 7:33.41

6.- YNN - China (Wang, Zhao, Zhao, Que, Li): 7:34:03

7.- JSU - China (Xue, Pei, He, Yang, Ji): 7:34:27

8.- Belorussia International (Yatsevich, Stef, Yakovchuk, Myronchuk): 7:48:13

 

 

 

 

 

CCTV interview to Wang Zhen