Olympic silver medalist Bevan Docherty won his fourth triathlon World Cup and Emma Moffatt of Australia her first when she pipped Kirsten Sweetland of Canada by one second on Sunday.
New Zealand's Docherty bided his time through the swim and bike legs then ran strongly to move to the front and finish in 1 hour, 45 minutes, 54 seconds -- 20 seconds ahead of Alexander Brukhankov of Russia.
The 30-year-old Docherty said the ability to pace himself has come with time.
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``I don't have the sort of young drive anymore, the young sort of hunger,'' he said. ``Now I just sort of race with the brain a bit more and I think I race a lot smarter. And on a day like this, it certainly paid off.''
Moffatt, runner-up last year, caught Sweetland in the final meters to beat her by a second for the season's closest finish.
``It's a bit of a shame that the crowd wasn't going for me,'' Moffatt quipped. ``I feel kind of bad, they wanted the local to win.''
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She and Sweetland were old friends, having trained together and stayed at each others' homes.
``I always used to get her on the 30-second effort, so I thought I can do this, I've done it before,'' Moffatt said.
Moffatt, Sweetland and Australia's Annabel Luxford broke away early in the last running leg. Luxford, the 2005 World Cup champion, dropped away and finished third 18 seconds behind. Only Moffatt stayed with Sweetland, the junior world champ.
Sweetland, 18, became the youngest Canadian to win a World Cup race last month.
Docherty hadn't won a World Cup race since March last year at Mooloolaba, Australia. His success capped a run of seven straight finishes in the top eight.
``It's really hard to win a World Cup and silver seems to be haunting me,'' he said.
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