Tyler Butterfield finished 8th at the ITU World Cup Triathlon in Mexico.
Although Butterfield’s swim has clearly improved he still trailed the leaders out of the Swim Course by almost a minute with a time of 18.50. He then set about reeling in the large leading group of riders over the 8 lap 40km Bike Course.
By lap three he had dragged his group of riders up to the leaders but not content with that effort he opened up a 10 second lead before 6 riders dragged themselves back up to him.
This group then put a minute into the large chasing group going into Transition 2.
Butterfield’s effort clearly toke its toll on the run as he could not live with the pace set by Frenchmen Aurelien Lescure and Etieene Diemunsch.
However the Frenchmen paid the price as the heat got to them with Lescure, who had a 40 second lead going into the last 2.5km of the 10km run, fading badly.
Pacing himself well, last year’s Silver Medalist Luciano Taccone of Argentina overtook the Frenchmen to take the win in 2:01:58 holding off a very fast finishing Davide Uccellari of Italy who just caught poor Lescure on the line. Butterfield held on for 8th, 1.28 behind the winner in 2:03:26.
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