Treble success for Yasmin

And there was more local success as 16-year-old Richard Batsford won the 5km ahead of fellow Swindon Harrier 34-year-old Jason Barry.

Winning the main event at the 11th Swindon Duathlon at Wroughton's Science Museum was Army triathlete Tom Lowe, pipping Hampshire's Chris Birch and Milton Keynes' Dave Brown to the top prize.

No other female was a match for Michelle Parsons of Worcester Tri Club as she strolled to an easy victory.

Chippenham Wheeler David Ballantyne finished 17th overall in a time of 2:05:47, Mike Cox of Calne won the 50-54 age group and Swindon Tri clubs Daniel Martin was fourth in the 35-39 category.

The day got underway with the 5km Cat adult fun run and 1.5km Children's Fun Run in support of Cancer Research UK.

And people travelled a fair distance to take part, including the 1.5km winner, 12-year-old Nick Browning from Gloucester.

Browning, a member of Triathlon Team Glos, dominated from the gun finishing 27 seconds ahead of another club runner Lily Cartwright of Abindon Amblers, who easily took the first girls prize.

Just behind them there was a real tussle between Wroughton Ridgeway School pupils James Wilkinson and Matthew Gowshall.

At the line it was Gowshall who took the second spot and just to prove what a sporting family they are, his sister Ellic finished second girl.

In fact the whole Gowshall family took part, with the three children in the 1.5km, mum the 5km and dad the duathlon.

Behind Swindon Harriers Batsford and Barry in the 5km was Nathan Smith of Devizes Running Club while first female home was 41-year-old Susan Lee from Wootton Bassett.

Lee finished one minute ahead of Swindon's Julie Whish who took the second prize.

In the Short Duathlon of 5km-40km-2.5km youth Robert Bowle of Wantage had a commanding lead after the bike stage and was never challenged, by second-placed Stuart Dinwoodie of Chippenham.

Many local people took part in this event including Lynsey Tushingham, who hadn't been on a bike for years, but dusted it off especially for this event and although she finished in last place.

SWINDON DUATHLON RESULTS

• Main Event 10km-40km-5km

1 Tom Lowe (Army Tri ATA) 1:52:24; 2 Chris Birch (East Street Cycles.com) 1:55:24; 3 Dave Brown (Team Milton Keynes) 1:55:52; 4 Oliver Mott (Uni of Bristol) 1:57:07; 5 Toby Jameson (Uni of Bath) 1:57:16; 6 Paul Mountford (Parker International) 1:57:49; 7 Matt Moorhouse (Tri Preston) 1:58:19; 8 Jonathan Wills (Science in Sport) 1:58:24; 9 Matt Cullen (The Endurance Coach.com) 1:58:33; 10 Mike Jubb (Tri Force) 1:59:01; 11 Kairn Stone 1:59:58; 12 Lee Piercy (Primera Bournemouth) 2:00:17; 13 Ben Lang (Total Fitness Bath) 2:01:15; 14 Alex Felce 2:02:29; 15 Jimmy George (In-Gear Quicknut) 2:03:50; 16 Matt Newman (BAD Tri) 2:04:06; 17 David Ballantyne (Chippenham Wheelers) 2:05:47; 18 Chris Taylor (Berkshire Tri Squad) 2:07:35; 19 Greg MacDonald (RAF Tri) 2:07:40; 20 Paul Smith (Manchester Tri Club) 2:07:44; 21 Gordon Croucher (Total Fitness Bath) 2:08:24; 22 Mitch Piddock 2:08:43; 23 Marc Scriven (Trybike.co.uk) 2:09:23; 24 Nigel Ashman (votwo.co.uk) 2:09:30; 25 Peter Wager (Swim Bike Run Windsor) 2:10:00; 26 Daniel Whaites 2:10:46; 27 Ed Headford (RAF Tri) 2:11:05; 28 Daniel Keen (Worcester Tri) 2:11:16; 29 Michelle Parsons (Worcester Tri Club) 2:12:06; 30 Simon Tout 2:12:08; 31 Matthew Clayton 2:13:04; 32 Hanno Nickau (Oxford Tri) 2:13:07; 33 Andrew Mosley (Chippenham Wheelers) 2:13:19; 34 Samuel Poore 2:15:06; 35 Mike Cox (Total Fitness Bath) 2:15:07; 36 Gawie Nienaber (Gears and Tears) 2:15:29; 37 Noel Edwards (Coventry Tri) 2:15:37; 38 Craig Bell (Tri London) 2:16:04; 39 Stuart McGowan (Bike and Run) 2:16:13; 40 Rob Hopkins 2:16:27; 41 Mick Anglim (Hardley Runners) 2:16:40; 42 Ben Forsyth 2:18:12; 43 Pete Jenkins (Cerist) 2:18:31; 44 Daniel Martin (Swindon Tri Club) 2:19:10; 45 Richard Vaudin 2:19:22; 46 Peter Merritt 2:19:51; 47 Roy Temple (TVT) 2:19:58; 48 Oliver Hilton (Cheltenham Tri Club) 2:19:59; 49 Mark Warren 2:20:10; 50 Michael Rudd 2:20:17; 51 Bryn Mayell 2:20:21; 52 Jason Smart 2:21:24; 53 Nigel Herron (Brighton Phoenix Tri) 2:21:37; 54 Martin Denning 2:21:45; 55 Hirofumi Totsuka 2:21:46; 56 Keith Jellyman 2:22:21; 57 Richard Craig (Swindon Tri) 2:22:22; 58 Ben Anstie 2:22:26; 59 David Gardner 2:23:17; 60 Sarah May (Monmouth Tri Club) 2:23:26; 61 Andy Merrick (Tri Team Glos) 2:25:45; 62 Vanessa Hogg 2:25:57; 63 Simon Bramhald (ATA Army Tri) 2:26:49; 64 Andrew Stiles (Team Milton Keynes) 2:27:32; 65 Guy Roberts 2:28:03; 66 Dominic Brown 2:28:17; 67 Richard Vidgen (Tri Team Glos) 2:28:21; 68 Mark Barrett 2:28:35; 69 Charlotte Maurissen (Total Fitness Bath) 2:28:44; 70 Adrian Higgs (Tri Team Glos) 2:28:48; 71 Susan Blackett (Berkshire Tri Squad) 2:28:54; 72 David McKinnon (Swindon Tri) 2:29:19; 73 Dudley Soule (Oxford Tri) 2:29:35; 74 Phil Richards 2:29:56; 75 Stephen Barton 2:30:00; 76 Joanna Barrett 2:30:30; 77 Will Connolly 2:30:46; 78 Clive Agate (De Soto Synergie) 2:32:18; 79 Simon Holroyd (Eton Tri) 2:32:58; 80 Chris Hills 2:33:11; 81 Ronald Yee (Crystal Palace) 2:33:53; 82 Nicola Hope (Oxford Tri) 2:34:05; 83 Sue/Anita Sidey/Mellowdew (Bath Amphibians TC) 2:34:41; 84 Adrian Short 2:35:09; 85 Rod Haddrell 2:36:01; 86 Nick Dye (Swindon Tri) 2:36:14; 87 Christina Smith 2:36:23; 88 David Browning (Tri Team Glos) 2:37:33; 89 Eric Gailly 2:37:47; 90 Gavin MacDonald 2:38:17; 91 Ray Haines (Plymouth Tri) 2:38:49; 92 Neil Lewis 2:40:18; 93 Mario Proehl 2:41:26; 94 Victoria Richmond 2:41:45; 95 Louise Benett 2:44:15; 96 Toby Parker 2:45:04; 97 Michael Barnsdale (Spalding Triathlon Club) 2:45:38; 98 Laurie Irwin (Avon Valley Runners) 2:46:33; 99 Lesley Cliff (Vegatarian C&AC) 2:46:34; 100 Raych Cubbon 2:46:48; 101 Lorna Shaw 2:49:10; 102 Ian Moore 2:49:41; 103 Richard Please 2:50:02; 104 Andy Penington 2:50:40; 105 Tim Banner 2:50:41; 106 Andy Davidson (South London Harriers Tri Club) 2:50:53; 107 Mark Taylor 2:52:35; 108 Aileen Brown (Kingswood Tri) 2:52:56; 109 John Allen 2:54:45; 110 Mark Knight 2:58:47; 111 Alistair Bell 3:03:51; 112 Ron Holland 3:19:05.

• Short/Youth Event

5km-16km-2.5km

1 Robert Bowles (www.votwo.co.uk) 0:57:38; 2 Stuart Dinwoodie (Total Fitness Bath) 0:59:16; 3 Michael Harding 1:00:47; 4 Joshua Pettican (Cambridge Tri) 1:03:40; 5 Simon Williams 1:03:48; 6 Mark French (Tri Team Glos) 1:05:46; 7 James Brown 1:07:06; 8 Jason Aspinall (Marlborough Tri) 1:07:22; 9 Marc Burden 1:07:24; 10 Gary Smith 1:07:28; 11 Craig Wrigglesworth 1:08:16; 12 Gary O'Brien 1:08:28; 13 Yasmin Smith 1:09:01; 14 Thomas Forrester 1:09:51; 15 Andrew Topham 1:11:15; 16 Russell Morris 1:11:45; 17 Mike Whitworth (Oxford Tri) 1:12:09; 18 Carla Haines (Plymouth Tri) 1:12:28; 19 Tonje Haugen 1:14:16; 20 Cole Smith 1:14:28; 21 Yvonne King 1:15:21; 22 Rob Shywell 1:17:34; 23 Annette Hack (Oxford Tri) 1:18:02; 24 Lee Wagstaff (Bicester Millennium CC) 1:18:31; 25 Georgina Marshall (Cheltenham Tri Club) 1:18:35; 26 Gareth Vickers 1:18:51; 27 Deborah Sheridan (BRAT) 1:20:06; 28 Karen Taylor (Cheltenham Tri) 1:20:16; 29 Richard Gowshall 1:22:47; 30 Matthew Tibbles 1:23:34; 31 Eamonn Sheridan 1:25:00; 32 Wendy Morris 1:25:03; 33 Rod Gravette 1:26:35; 34 Amanda Short 1:30:58; 35 Simona Carena (Coventry Tri) 1:32:22; 36 Michael Molloy 1:36:09; 37 Lynsey Tushingham 1:44:21.

• Cats Swindon and District

Children's Fun Run 1.5km

1 Nick Browning; 2 Lily Cartwright; 3 Matthew Gowshall; 4 James Wilkinson; 5 Aaren Smith; 6 Akira Trees; 7 Samuel Gowshall; 8 Ellic Gowshall; 9 Ian Wilkinson; 10 Tommy Trees; 11 Jose Smith; 12 Alex Dinsmore; 13 Ryosuke Totsuka; 14 Ellis Fry; 15 Jessica Shimwell; 16 Katie Dent; 17 Adam Dent; 18 George Wilkinson; 19 Yutaro Totsuka; 20 Ryan Ferris; 21 Martha King; 22 Calli Smith; 23 Daisy Shimwell; 24 Callum Joyce; 25 Emily Smith; 26 Hannah Gibbs; 27 Daniel Hunter; 28 Jennifer Gibbs; 29 Wilf Cartwright; Aimee Shimwell; 31 Becky Shimwell.