OSIM Singapore Triathlon 2006 Finals

By Robert • July 10, 2006

The elite races of the OSIM Singapore Triathlon 2006 Championship were held Sunday July 2nd at East Coast Park. Australian Bryce Quirk bagged top spot in the elite men’s race - clocking in at 1:49:35, beating defending champion and countryman Chris Hill who dropped to 7th place. Behind Bryce by only 15 seconds was Daniil Sapunov from Kazakhstan. Robert says that was a close finish! Third place went to New Zealand’s Ben Pulham, who clocked 1:50:59.

Bryce said: “The heat is the biggest challenge here in Singapore. It is so close to the equator, so it’s hot and humid, so that makes it a tough race. So the fittest man generally wins and I am happy to win today.” Bryce collected US$3,200 for his winning effort.

Australian triathlete Samantha Beenie won the women’s elite event in 2:5:42 followed by countrywoman Lynne Marie Duthie at 02:11:26. Singaporean Alisa Ng Xinyi nabbed the second spot for the women’s under 23 race while Singapore’s 2005 Manila Sea Games gold medalist Cheng Jing Hean came in eighth from a field of 15 competitors with a time of 2:06:03 in the elite men’s under 23 race.

Robert photographed the event (media access) with a Canon EOS 30D dSLR and a Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 lens. For a few shots, I used a Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 IS lens. Images were captured in Canon raw format and converted to16-bit tiffs using Bibble Pro 4.8 for processing in Adobe Photoshop CS2.

Click on the thumbnail or here to see photos from the event.

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