Manchester's Georgia Taylor-Brown has won her maiden triathlon World Cup in Madrid.
While her home city hosted the Great Manchester Run, just days after the deadly terror attack, the 23-year-old was doing her bit in Spain.
After finishing in 2:08.05, ahead of American pair Taylor Spivey and Chelsea Burns on the podium, Taylor-Brown (pictured, left) tweeted: "when you come away with flowers and a sticky face, it's been a good day fun racing #MadridWC. Hope I made Manchester smile!"T
aylor-Brown held her own in the swim, finished in a leading pack of eight after 20 challenging kilometres on the bike and transitioned quickest to the run, increasing a slender lead over four laps.
"It was one of the hardest races I've ever done in my career, but also one of the best ones," she told www.triathlon.org.
"I loved the atmosphere, the hilly circuit and I just tried to save some energy during the bike for the run course, which I knew it was going to be also really hard."
