Pictorial results 2003

07 Dec - The 22 year old Snowsill from Australia produced a shock result at todays ITU World Championship winning the elite women's race in style. Exiting the 1.5km lake swim in 5th place she helped haul a chase bike pack up to 2 lead riders, staying in touch throughout the 40km ride. She tore the race open on the 2nd of four laps, running through the field to take over the lead. Reback, Taormina and Lindquist (USA) all tried to stay with her, but there was no stopping Snowsill. Increasing her lead by 25secs per lap Emma claimed the World title by incredible margin of 1:23sec.

02 Nov - Ever since the Noosa Triathlon first captured her imagination at aged 15, Emma dreamed of winning this event. Her long-standing dream became reality yesterday when the 22y ear old achieved the biggest winning margin in the history of the event with a sizzling 1hr 56:49min victory. First out of the swim she led on the non-drafting bike the entire 40ks. Blistered and bloodied feet couldn’t stop Snowsill, who despite registering the fastest run (34.28) was not content to believe victory was hers until the final kilometre. "This is my favourite race in the world" she said.

13 Oct - From being the 16-20year age World Champion in 2000, 22year old Emma Snowsill today clocked just one hour 56 minutes 58 seconds, besting Loretta Harrop 2nd & Rina Hill (NZ) 3rd to cement her position as ITU World Cup Series Champion 2003. In severe storm conditions and rough seas, Snowsill was 3rd out of 1.5km swim but clocked the fastest bike time of 1:03:59 despite high winds to trail by only 1sec in T2. She outpaced the rest of the field in the run for a comfortable 1minute 24secs victory. "It was a good race, despite the weather which damaged the pontoon & delayed the star” said Snowsill.

12 Sep - Sixtyfive elite women hit the azure waters off the French Riviera. Susie Galluci (USA) opened a 7mtr lead exiting T1with three chasers who formed a group to build a lead of 56secs, but by lap 6 it was a lead group of 20, now 1min30secs ahead of chasers. Exiting T2, Sylvia Gemignani (ITA) led for 3 laps followed closely by Emma Snowsill and Liz Blatchford (AUS) who moved up to overtake the leaders & forced the pace but Anja Dittmer (GER) sprinted to the line beating Snowsill by 6 seconds with Blatchford third.

03 Aug - In 32deg heat elite women from many countries dived into the Tisza River for the 1500m swim. Heard (GBR), Dittmer(GER), Anisimova (RUS),Snowsill (AUS) & Hidalgo (ESP) exited T1 to form a lead bike pack, but were caught by chasers led by Montgomery (CAN) to stampede through T2. On the Run, Montgomery & Dittmer lead with a steady 10Sec margin until 7Kms when Montgomery, wilting in the heat was overtaken by Snowsill. Dittmer won in a sprint finish with Nadia Cortassa (ITL) just 5secs later with Emma Snowsill (AUS) a further 2 secs in 3rd.

07 Jun - Temps were 30°C in Tongyeong Korea, so no wetsuits were required for the 2 lap swim. A lead bike pack of Savage & Donnelly (CAN) & Reback (USA) tried to shake off Anisimova & Generalova (RUS), Radova (CZE) & two Australians, Snowsill & Blatchford, so all entering T2 together. In the dying moments of the event, it was Reback, Blatchford & Snowsill running in a dead heat to the finish, but the experienced Reback charged for the line, crossing just seconds ahead of Blatchford, with Snowsill a few meters back for the Bronze.