In the last part of our 2022 Aquabike Season Review we take a look at the races with the smallest and biggest winning margins. Last year we saw some quite impressive performances with comfortable victories and also races with only a few seconds between first and second place. We show you the closest and clearest wins in aquabike races in 2022.

 

Closest Wins in Men´s Aquabike Races in 2022

In men´s aquabike racing we had no less than four races with the two top finishers crossing the finishline within the same second. Most notable is certainly the opening race of the Spanish aquabike season at the ICAN Triathlon Alicante. After 1,9 km swimming and 90 im cycling the first four athletes finished with 13 seconds. Jose Luis BUENO ROJAS was the lucky one who manged to cross the finishline first, sharing the same finish time with Damian BEVILACQUA.

Closest Wins in Women´s Aquabike Races in 2022

There was only a same time finish of the first two female athletes at the Ghost Town Triathlon in Utah. Camille NELSON and Kate BUCKLEY were two of the only three participants in the aquabike race, showing that a small number of participants doesn´t necessarily mean that you don´t have to fight hard for the win.
When we take a look at the ten closest race finishes in women´s aquabike racing it´s also quite remarkable that three of them happened to be in National Championships. While the Danish champion Anna SEROP took the title with a winning margin of just one single second, the winning gap at the Canadian and Irish Championships with four resp. eight seconds also was everything else than huge.

Clearest Wins in Aquabike Races in 2022

For this statistics we only counted races with at least 10 finishers. It´s not a big surprise that the biggest winning margin happened to be in a full distance race. However, winning the Michigan Titanium Full Distance aquabike by more than 25 minutes is certainly a quite remarkable performance by Jeremy SIKKEMA.
The biggest winning margin in a half distance race wasn´t much less though and happened a week later at the Peasantman Steel Distance Triathlons where Brett CALDWELL took the win in the Half Steel Aquabike by almost 25 minutes.
The clearest wins in Standard and Sprint distance aquabike races both came from the same athlete and were certainly not a product of coincidence. Lucas ELDER won six out of six aquabike races in 2022, all of them with a pretty clear winning margin. At the win in the Olympic Distance aquabike race at the Kinetic Triathlon Festival he had to wait more than 18 minutes to take the congatulations from the second placed athlete. At the YMCA Wrightsville Beach Sprint Triathlon he put more than 12 minutes into the runner up of the aquabike race. Chapeau!