ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.,
April 26, 2015
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Cameron Dye and Alicia Kaye were the male and female division
winners at Sunday's St. Anthony's Triathlon. They both became
two-time St. Anthony's Triathlon
champions with their first-place finishes at the 32nd
annual event.
Dye, 31, of Boulder, CO,
finished with a time of 1:47:59, almost 40 seconds ahead of
second-place finisher Kaleb Vanort
of Mishawaka, IN, who came in at
1:48:36. Eric Lagerstrom, of
San Diego finished third at
1:50:03.
Dye led the way out of the water but two pros were close on his
trail. "Then I got on the bike and I just tried to hammer it. With
all the extra running I've been doing, the bike was a wild card,"
Dye said. "That has been my thing, but without having spent quite
so much time riding, I wasn't sure how that was going to go."
It went just fine as Dye biked in first and then started his run
well ahead of the other pros. "It's nice when your race plan comes
together," he said. "All the hard work pays off. That's why we
train so hard."
Kaye, 32, of Clermont, crossed
the finish line at 2:00:30, nearly three minutes ahead of
second-place finisher Magali
Tisseyre, of San Diego, who
clocked in at 2:03:03. Heather
Lendway of St. Paul, MN, in
her first year as a pro, placed third with a time of 2:07:04.
Kaye said that Lendway set a blistering pace on the swim. "I
knew she was such a good swimmer," Kaye said. "I was catching her
in the water, but she saw me coming and put her foot on the pedal.
I wasn't able to catch her in the water."
That changed when they got on the bikes. "As soon as we got on
the bikes, I went by her," Kaye said. "I was focused on my own race
and just trying to get as big a cushion as I could before going on
this hot run."
Kaye, who won the St. Anthony's
women's division in 2013, said this is an especially
memorable victory for her. "I consider my win at the 2013 St.
Anthony's to be the highlight of my career," she said. "I was truly
upset when I didn't win last year, so this is very special."
The professional field included past winners and Olympians who
came from around the world and from around the Tampa Bay area. The professional field
represented a variety of distances from the sport including Ironman
and 70.3 racing, to the non-drafting Olympics distance and the
ITU.
Winning the second annual St.
Anthony's Sprint Triathlon men's division was Jon Noland, 41, of Tampa, with a time of 1:00:32. Coming in
second was Niclas Bez, 22, of
Saint Leo, at 1:02:38, followed by
15-year-old Luis Ortiz of
Orlando, who finished at 1:03:13.
In the women's Sprint race, Heather
Butcher, 43, of North Port,
won with a time of 1:10:16. She came in ahead of Celia Dubey, 43, of Tarpon Springs, who had a time of 1:10:42, and
Amy Lynn Keener, 38, of St. Petersburg, who finished third at
1:13:51.
The sprint race followed the same course as the Olympic-distance
event but with shorter distances – a 750-meter swim, 20K bike and a
5K run.
The St. Anthony's Triathlon
race serves as the USA Triathlon
Florida Regional Championship to qualify athletes for USAT
Championship in Milwaukee on
Aug. 8.
For more information about the 2015 races, athletes and fans can
also visit St. Anthony's
Triathlon's Facebook
page: Facebook.com/StAnthonysTriathlon. Registration
for the 2016 races will begin Dec. 1,
2015.
About St. Anthony's
Hospital
St. Anthony's Hospital is a 393-bed hospital
founded in 1931 as a ministry of the Franciscan Sisters of
Allegany and was the first faith-based
hospital in Pinellas County. The hospital continues
its rich history dedicated to improving the health of the
community by providing high-quality, innovative and compassionate
care. For more information on St.
Anthony's, call (727) 953-6993.
About BayCare Health System
BayCare is a leading not-for-profit health care system that
connects individuals and families to a wide range of services at 13
hospitals and hundreds of other convenient locations throughout the
Tampa Bay and central Florida regions.
Inpatient and outpatient services include acute care, primary care,
imaging, laboratory, behavioral health, home care, and wellness.
Our mission is to improve the health of all we serve through
community-owned, health care services that set the standard for
high-quality, compassionate care.
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