Tyler Smith has been training in Northern Spain with Canadian Junior Elite Coach Kelly Guest and a group of Canadian Elite Juniors.
The group travelled to Holten in the Netherlands on Thursday and competed in one of the 16-19 Junior Elite European Triathlon Union races.
Due to the extreme heat in Europe the Amateur Races were cancelled and the Senior Elite Race was reduced to Sprint Distance, with Smith’s race was moved to an evening start.
Holten is one of the most competitive races on the European Junior Circuit and as one of the youngest competitors Smith's result of 26th out of 57 competitors was encouraging especially as his time of 1:00.20 was only just over a minute outside the top ten.
He exited the water in 9.15 trailing a small group lead group who got away on the bike. He ended the 20km Bike with the main group in 29:48 but faded a bit on the run recording a time of 19:02 for the 5km with those who finished ahead of him closer to 18:30.
