MO HS Sr & 9:03 3200 runner Austin Hindman wins the World Junior Triathlon Title

Hindman is the two time defending 3200m state champion.

American women have been pretty dominant over the last couple of years...

Also of note: Oliver Blecher of Canada, who'll be running on Brown's XC and Track teams for the next four years, took 6th place overall.

Go Bruno.

is this under 18 or 21? what age is this?

Last year I was honored in a ceremony put on by the St. Louis Track Club honoring All-Area Highschool XC runners. Austin Hindman was also there! The coach of each athlete was given a few minutes to speak and Hindman ms coach talked about how Austin does "so much" running triathlons on top of Highschool XC and track. Seeing this now is amazing!

Big run by 8.01/13.52 runner Alex Yee. By far the fastest run split with 14.59. It will be interesting to see whether he focuses on running or triathlon in the future.

Word from Kent AC is that Alex is fully focusing on triathlon. You've got to think he's got plenty of room to improve in the swim/bike and his run is already so much better than the rest of the field that it seems like a wise choice.

I know quite a few of their guys (their club is super close to mine so every race has a bunch of Kent guys) and have raced Alex in XC last season, he was the first U18 to ever win a Surrey League XC race, in something like 100+ years of the competition.

Boring Milner wrote:

Big run by 8.01/13.52 runner Alex Yee. By far the fastest run split with 14.59. It will be interesting to see whether he focuses on running or triathlon in the future.

DAMN, with a split like that he would have destroyed the field if he was in contention before the run. Super impressive and I bet he could make some noise in the future if he gets the swimming and biking down.

why are posts being deleted here?

Here is a story I wrote about Austin. Cool kid. http://mo.milesplit.com/articles/190611-yo-austin-what-did-you-do-this-weekend-i-won-a-world-triathlon-title-

Because this is letsrun.com NOT letstri.com. Just more people looking for a way to try and look important because they couldn't in distance running. Me? I'm going into the air pistol next year because somehow that's an Olympic sport. We'll all be on the news eventually. We just have to find the right events.

PrZ wrote:

Boring Milner wrote:

Big run by 8.01/13.52 runner Alex Yee. By far the fastest run split with 14.59. It will be interesting to see whether he focuses on running or triathlon in the future.

DAMN, with a split like that he would have destroyed the field if he was in contention before the run. Super impressive and I bet he could make some noise in the future if he gets the swimming and biking down.

Just keep in mind that running off the bike is NOT the same as running fresh. It affects people differently. Also of note, there are probably hundreds of guys that have run 14:00 in the open like Alex. I wish the kid the best, but you can't crown 'em yet.

Makende Kubwa wrote:

Also of note: Oliver Blecher of Canada, who'll be running on Brown's XC and Track teams for the next four years, took 6th place overall.

Go Bruno.

Other Ivy Leaguers at the meet:

Lisa Tertsch (Harvard) - finished 2nd in the women's jr triathlon, ran fastest 5km split (17:56) among all of the female competitors

Kyleigh Spearing (Cornell) - finished 9th overall and 2nd American in the field

since you ask wrote:

Because this is letsrun.com NOT letstri.com. Just more people looking for a way to try and look important because they couldn't in distance running. Me? I'm going into the air pistol next year because somehow that's an Olympic sport. We'll all be on the news eventually. We just have to find the right events.

Sounds like someone is a little jealous of those who actually have an upper body. Don't knock the triathlon until you've tried it. If I had to guess, Hindman has probably run faster than you ever have. Plus with two state championships on the track, it is a far stretch to say he hasn't accomplished anything in distance running (quite honestly I don't think he could have accomplished much more at this point in his life, considering he is in high school).

Consider this wrote:

PrZ wrote:

DAMN, with a split like that he would have destroyed the field if he was in contention before the run. Super impressive and I bet he could make some noise in the future if he gets the swimming and biking down.

http://triathlon.competitor.com/2013/09/training/running-vs-triathlon-running_42523

Just keep in mind that running off the bike is NOT the same as running fresh. It affects people differently. Also of note, there are probably hundreds of guys that have run 14:00 in the open like Alex. I wish the kid the best, but you can't crown 'em yet.

Consider that Alex Yee was only 18 in Feb and that he just ran 13:52 at the World Junior Champs in July where he got 9th. HE IS THE NINTH JUNIOR IN THE WORLD and if i am not mistaken was the second non-african on that race. So when you say there are hundreds of guys running that fast at that age it is completely ASININE....

He was out split by a minute in this 5k.

Alex Yee of GBR ran 14:59...

If Yee can swim better in sr's, he is the next Brownlee....

I know both Greg Whitely and Hunter Kemper. I was the collegiate national tri champ and a professional tri-geek after college... I beat Hunter at 92' worlds in Muskoka Ontario....My last time ever beating him!

the article you reference is so off in comparing the two of these.

1st: Hunter was a triathlete first. He was an ironkid at like 8 years old and always knew how to run off the bike. he just wasn't fast at it until college. he only got serious about running in college.

2nd whitely was never a triathlete. by the time he turned pro as a tri guy, he was well out of his prime prime running shape. I guess he could muster a 15:00 open race while he was tri training. We trained in Eugene when he was starting out as a pro tri guy.

The true difference is confidence in a triathlon. Hunter knew swimming and biking and simply added the last piece. his confidence was always growing in the sport and that kept him running fast off the bike, he was always in the hunt.

Greg, never got to build his confidence in tris. his confidence was always going down, because his swim was off and his bike was fine. if he made it to the run, he was dejected and down.

if whitely got off the bke with the leaders, trust me, he would have crushed it. he was never in that position to benefit from confidence and motivation.

Both great runners coming at running in triathlons from completely different psychological angles.... which dictate the physical potential

race videos here:

http://www.triathlon.org/multimedia/video/2016_itu_triathlon_junior_world_championships_-_men

http://www.triathlon.org/multimedia/video/2016_itu_triathlon_junior_world_championships_-_women

The junior category is 19 and under.

There is also an under-23 category.

It's set up the same as cycling is.

Promising and impressive results for the US, but I think the race being in Mexico definitely played into US athletes hands, with less travel (which often affects junior athletes more as they're not used to the travel).