Budapest, Hungary
The weather was cool over in Budapest, water temp at 14c and air temp about 16c with damp/wet roads. Nonetheless, there were World Championship titles to decide. The race was held over swim-750m / ride-20km / run-5km distance.

Ben Wright put in a fantastic performance which produced a great result. In his 25-29 age-group he was 4^th after the swim, 3^rd after the ride and held on to be 3^rd at the finish, winning a BRONZE medal in the World Championships!!! His time was 8^th overall amongst all age-group athletes.

My first news of his result came with Ben’s phone call on Saturday evening – he was absolutely stoked about how well his race went. He commented about how competitive and fast the race was, and how much better he raced against several of the same athletes from the aquathon on Wednesday. His call made my day. (The 2^nd place getter from last year’s race came about 20^th – a sign of how strong the field was.)

Ben’s result is even more remarkable given the painful leg injury he’s had for the last 6 weeks which severely affected his running and which we had to change plans to limit how much he did and get the most benefit from it, and supplementing it with deep water running. He had two cortisone injections in the last 4 weeks. It was Ben’s determination, motivation and strength of spirit that achieved this result…plus the support we all gave him.

We should all feel some pride in the performances from others in our group, Ben being case in point.
Men 25-29

Rank	Bib	Name	Nation	Finish	Diff.
1	1411	CONOR MURPHY	IRL	58:36	0
2	1435	JULIEN LEROY	FRA	1:00:28	1:53
3	1427	BENJAMIN WRIGHT	AUS	1:00:40	2:05
4	1440	NICK DUNN	GBR	1:00:43	2:08
5	1404	ADAM FRANK	HUN	1:01:07	2:31
6	1451	THOMAS WINKELMANN	GER	1:01:11	2:36
7	1401	PETER CZENCZ	HUN	1:02:10	3:35
8	1407	ZOLTAN PETSUK	HUN	1:02:20	3:44
9	1433	ROBERT JOHNSON	CAN	1:02:30	3:55
10	1449	SIMON THORNTON	GBR	1:03:29	4:54