Australia equaled its best international result in a relay, with a 4th position in the mixed relay at the World Games in Kaohsiung today.Simon Uppill showed his calm and confidence on the world stage with a great opening leg providing a great start to the relay, coming in 7th position 1.21 min down. Kathryn Ewels had a storming run, and her best of the weekend to bring the team into 4th position, only a few seconds behind 3rd. I (Julian Dent) went out just behind World Games champion Daniel Hubman, and had a good first half, but tired baldy in the last part of the race to handover to Hanny in 5th position, 2min 18 sec behind 1st position. Hanny had a good run to pick the team up into 4th position, after battling for the bronze medal with Norway.
The team is stoked with the result, and happy to show the Europeans that we can match it with them!
Simon finishing strongly on first leg.
Simon had a great run to put the team in a good position!
Kathryn finishing after a great run on 2nd leg.
The team discussing the course!
Me handing over to Hanny. I was stuffed!
Hanny waiting to head out with World Champ Minna Kauppi.
Hanny heading off on the last leg.
Hanny finishing in 4th position
Fantastic result team. Congratulations to all of you. Very exciting and tense for those at home trying to get updates. Proud of you all and cant wait for WOC relay, girls. Thanks for the great blog Jules.
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