"World No 1 Matt Hauser has won the triathlon's world championship series in Wollongong, ending a 15-year drought for Australia. Two-time Olympian Hauser never relented across Sunday's 1.5km swim, 40km cycle, and 10km run event and won gold by a monster 34 seconds on home soil. The 27-year-old was cheered home by a raucous crowd and finished the gruelling Wollongong course in one hour 42.42 minutes."
"Hauser, in tears at the finish line, joins Emma Moffatt as the only Australians to win an Olympic-distance world title since the championship became a series in 2009. The 27-year-old is the first Australian man to win the world series, after Pete Robertson won in 2005 when the world title was decided by a one-off race. Luke Willian was Australia's next best male on Sunday, finishing 16th out of the 52 athletes."
"Germany's Lisa Tertsch triumphed in the women's final as reigning Olympic champion Cassandre Beaugrand failed to finish. Tertsch finished the race in one hour 56.50 minutes to win her maiden crown. Germany's Lisa Tertsch wins the elite women's final at the world triathlon championships in Wollongong, Australia. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AP Italy's Lisa Seregni finished 14 seconds behind, while France's Emma Lombardi was a further 12 seconds adrift to claim bronze."
Matt Hauser won the Olympic-distance world triathlon championship in Wollongong, finishing the 1.5km swim, 40km cycle and 10km run in 1 hour 42.42 minutes. Hauser won by 34 seconds, with Spain's David Cantero Del Campo taking silver and Italy's Alessio Crociani bronze. The 27-year-old became the first Australian man to win the world series and ended a 15-year Australian drought, joining Emma Moffatt as the only Australians with an Olympic-distance world title since the series began. Luke Willian finished 16th and Miguel Hidalgo was fourth. In the women's final, Germany's Lisa Tertsch won in 1:56.50; Lisa Seregni and Emma Lombardi completed the podium while Cassandre Beaugrand did not finish.
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