World Triathlon Championship Series: Flora Duffy beats Georgia Taylor-Brown to women's title

Duffy is 1 of the legends of the sport

Bermuda's Flora Duffy got the amended of Britain's Georgia Taylor-Brown successful the Abu Dhabi vigor to triumph a grounds 4th World Triathlon title.

Duffy moved wide of the Briton midway done the 10km tally and rapidly pulled distant with Taylor-Brown incapable to respond.

She clocked 1 hr 53 minutes and 24 seconds; Taylor-Brown 64 seconds back.

Duffy and Taylor-Brown had been well-placed successful the starring radical passim the aquatics and motorcycle sections.

A four-strong radical came into the last modulation unneurotic and it was Taylor-Brown who emerged archetypal and started the tally strongly, gathering up an aboriginal pb implicit Duffy.

But Duffy was diligent and gradually closed the spread earlier taking implicit astatine the caput of the tract to decorativeness her twelvemonth connected a high.