I reported her to British Triathlon Federation when we got back from China. They (BTF) logged a complaint with ITU, I didn't hear anything since. I have now contacted them again in light of the recent events. If this girl did only run 3 laps of a 4 lap course, then she robbed 3 girls who trained incredibly hard for a World Championship event, not to mention the effort and cost of travel, etc. to get there to compete on a fair playing field. You just have to look at the timings to see that there is foul play. I remember seeing her on the run (you know who you're racing) and she certainly wasn't going at any great stick that was like 'wow'.

Anyway did she back it up in 2015 ITU Long Course? I believe shuffled over the finish line in 39th place, whilst 2nd place in China (the true defending World Champion?) got off the bike in 15th place and ran herself into 4th place!!!

If you look at the performance of the 1st and 2nd competitors over a half marathon, and 3rd for that matter 2nd and 3rd are consistently knocking out 1hr 30min and 1:40min halfs, as for the 1st place competitor, from result history the best performance over that distance is well short of 1hr 30min... I think anyone who runs knows it's hard to shave minutes off a PB fresh, let alone 10-20mins after a 4km swim and a hard 120km bike leg is 'unlikely?'.

As an eye-witness, the woo-ha this girl created at the finish line to get her podium was incredible, applying pressure on the organisers, I think there was mention of a faulty timing chip or something - they folded. The British contingent didn't contest too much at the time as you expect and rely on the integrity in your competitors and it was only looking back at the results (which were released much later in the day) that it was evident that something didn't stack up.

Disgraceful behaviour.