Estonian Henry R\u00e4ppo has \u2013 just like last year \u2013 won Ironman 70.3 Tallinn. While last year he had to sprint for the victory and ultimately finished just three seconds ahead, this time he secured a margin of over a minute. Still, he only clinched the win in the final stage of the race. In the women\u2019s race, Italy\u2019s Marta Bernardi took the victory.<\/p>\n
During the swim, Germany\u2019s Hannes Butters was the fastest, coming out of the water more than a minute ahead of Angert, R\u00e4ppo, Marco Lorenzon, Enzo Bourdon, and Casimir Moine. However, R\u00e4ppo is known for his strong bike leg and demonstrated why in the opening kilometers, though Butters ultimately remained dominant on the bike as well. In T2, Butters held a lead of over 2:20 minutes on R\u00e4ppo, with Louis Woodgate following in third at 2:45 minutes.<\/p>\n
As dominant as Butters was during the swim and bike legs, R\u00e4ppo was equally dominant on the run: in the first four kilometers alone, he shaved off more than a minute of his deficit, catching up to Butters by the eight-kilometer mark. Any potential alliance was short-lived, as R\u00e4ppo quickly pulled away from Butters to ultimately win in 3:38:31. Butters took second place in 3:39:38, and Bourdon finished third in 3:41:12.<\/p>\n
In the women\u2019s race, the win went to Marta Bernardi, who finished in 4:12:04, holding a one-minute lead over France\u2019s Sandra Huon (4:13:05). Local favorite Liis Kapten completed the podium in third with a time of 4:13:08.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Estonian Henry R\u00e4ppo has \u2013 just like last year \u2013 won Ironman 70.3 Tallinn. While last year he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[89],"tags":[71268,167,71269,71270,71271,71272,71273,71274,166],"class_list":["post-151057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallinn","tag-enzo-bourdon","tag-estonia","tag-hannes-butters","tag-henry-rappo","tag-ironman-70-3-tallinn","tag-liis-kapten","tag-marta-bernardi","tag-sandra-huon","tag-tallinn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117145880620148257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}