Lebrun, Slack win XTERRA Italy Championship
Press Release / 30.05.2012
Sardegna, Italy (May 28, 2012) - Nico Lebrun and Jacqui Slack won the XTERRA Italy Championship in Sardegna on Sunday. With the win Lebrun snaps Ben Allen's streak of XTERRA World Tour Championship wins at four, but the Aussie still has a great race to finish second.
Alexander Haas, the overall amateur XTERRA World Champ, turned pro for 2012 and proved he belongs by placing third overall. South Africa’s Stuart Marais in fourth and reigning XTERRA European Tour Champ Olivier Marceau in fifth.
In the women’s race Slack led from wire-to-wire to upset an incredibly strong women’s field and take her second straight win on the XTERRA World Tour series. Last month Slack won the XTERRA New Zealand Championship. Czech Helena Erbanova, third in Maui last October, finished second more than two minutes back, with reigning Euro Tour Champ Marion Lorblanchet in third, Maud Golsteyn in fourth and the resilient Carina Wasle in fifth despite racing with a broken hand.
XTERRA South Africa Champion Carla Van Huyssteen crashed on the bike early but toughed it out, finished eighth, then went for stitches.
| Pos | Fname | Lname | Country | Total | Swim | Bike | Run |
| 1 | Nicolas | Lebrun | FRA | 02:23:21 | 00:18:39 | 01:24:55 | 00:38:12 |
| 2 | Ben | Allen | AUS | 02:24:19 | 00:16:27 | 01:29:06 | 00:37:17 |
| 3 | Alexander | Haas | GER | 02:26:10 | 00:17:49 | 01:25:31 | 00:41:09 |
| 4 | Stuart | Marais | RSA | 02:26:50 | 00:17:45 | 01:29:48 | 00:37:02 |
| 5 | Olivier | Marceau | SUI | 02:29:33 | 00:16:27 | 01:31:07 | 00:40:06 |
| 6 | Francois | Carloni | FRA | 02:29:33 | 00:18:09 | 01:27:24 | 00:41:58 |
| 7 | Gianpietro | De Faveri | ITA | 02:30:01 | 00:16:34 | 01:31:56 | 00:39:57 |
| 8 | Fabio | Guidelli | ITA | 02:34:20 | 00:16:26 | 01:36:40 | 00:39:29 |
| 9 | Tomas | Kubek | ITA | 02:34:27 | 00:18:25 | 01:33:22 | 00:40:43 |
| 10 | Antonello | Pallotta | ITA | 02:35:28 | 00:19:32 | 01:34:05 | 00:39:41 |
| Also: Fabrizio Baralla, Jens Buder, Marco Spadacciao, Carl Pasio, Philipp Seipp, Lars Van Der Eerden | |||||||
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