Gwen Jorgensen won the ITU World Triathlon Series’ Grand Final on Friday for her second straight season championship.
Jorgensen, from St Paul, Minnesota, has won 12 straight events. She finished the 1,500m swim in Lake Michigan, 40km bike ride and 10km run in 1 hour, 55 minutes, 36 seconds, rallying from 17th after the bike leg.
“I was not in a great position, I just tried to remain focused,” Jorgensen said. “I would say at the bike I was not in the best position either, I was kind of off the back.”
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Britain’s Non Stanford was second in 1 hour, 56 minutes, 5 seconds, followed by countrywoman Vicky Holland in 1 hour, 56 minutes, 20 seconds.
“She puts in a surge and leaves us for dead,” Holland said.
Jorgensen’s took the season title with 5,200 points, well ahead of New Zealand’s Andrea Hewitt at 4,081 points. Hewitt was fourth on Friday.
“When you look at the past season, I think it is pretty nuts,” Jorgensen said. “It is something I never would have imagined, that I have been able to perform on so many different courses, feeling different: good, bad, sick, healthy. It is just been incredible.”
Sarah True of Hanover, New Hampshire, was third in the season standings after finishing seventh on Friday.
Jorgensen also won the ITU World Olympic qualification event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last month to make next year’s US Olympic team. True also has qualified for Rio.
Jorgensen competed in the 2012 Olympics in London, finishing 38th after having a flat tire during the bike ride. She last lost in a triathlon in April last year.
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