Last Sunday Sveny, as a single starter, and the Captain, on the relay team with the Dolphins Angelika and Christoph Clausing, participated in the 19th Bonn Triathlon under midsummer weather conditions. They had to swim in the Rhein for 2.5m/4km, ride bikes for 37m/60km and run for 9m/15km. Proving her initial doubts wrong Sveny easily managed the 2.5m/4km in the river in 32min and could then concentrate on the demanding bike course. Christoph started 8min later with the relay block and handed off to the Captain, who was supposed to be the biker for the team. After about 18.6m/30km he passed Sveny, he was ina hurry. Sveny got off her bike in 20th position and began running. She had the 4th best running time out of all the women and so she was able to move up a few places and ended up in 9th place overall of the women's division, her time being 3:32:46h.
However, the Captain had not returned from the bike course. After quite a while, in the chaos that ensued, the discovery was made that about 2.5m/4km before the end of the course on a fast descent of about 43.5mph/70km/h the Captain had badly crashed, due to a negligent performance of a competition sheriff, and had to be taken to the hospital via ambulance.
The question of guilt is still to be resolved. The Captain suffered a variety of bruises, large surface abrasions and pulled muscles in the back and neck area. He is out of the game for now, but could luckily leave the hospital after being treated.

At the same event 3 of our replacement spinners also started. Little Rene came in 78th overall after 3:22:11h, Holgi was in 140th place with a time of 3:31:50h and Harry finished after 3:33:05h in 150th place.
Jörn