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Canada’s Stefan Daniel was a silver medallist in a World Triathlon Para Series race Sunday.<\/p>\n
The six-time world champion from Calgary finished second to winner Martin Schulz of Germany and ahead of bronze medallist Filipe Marques of Portugal in the race featuring a 750-metre swim, 20-kilometre bike and five-kilometre run.<\/p>\n
Daniel, a Paralympic silver and bronze medallist, finished in 57 minutes 52 seconds in the PTS5 classification, and 13 seconds behind the home-country favourite in Hamburg, Germany.<\/p>\n
“I was pleasantly surprised. This whole year has been about taking a step back,” said the 29-year-old Daniel. “I’ve been working, coaching and enjoying things out of triathlon. I am still very active, but I came in today not overly fit other than going for easy runs. I just wanted to have fun doing a triathlon, and I have always wanted to race Hamburg.<\/p>\n
“The podium was a stretch goal today. I wasn’t expecting it at all,” added Daniel. “Being healthy is so, so important and I know the fitness will come from that. I was just able to race a bit freer mentally. I had more fun with it and that goes a long way. I was in the front all the way so I’m happy with that, but we’ll continue to take things slow.”<\/p>\n
Struggling to stay healthy over the last couple of years, Daniel’s plan is to stay fresh and be prepared for a two-year charge to the 2028 Paralympic Games in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
“I found some feet at the front of the swim. There was a group of four of us that came out of the water together. Schulz and I put some time on the guys on the bike,” said Daniel, who has club hands.<\/p>\n
“We came off the bike together and I went with him for a lap but then held it back a little knowing I can’t maintain this pace for long because I haven’t put in the training.”<\/p>\n
Canada’s Paralympic bronze medallist Leanne Taylor continued her return to international racing after taking the 2025 season off to have her first child.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old from Oak Bluff, Man. finished just off the podium in fourth in the women’s PTWC wheelchair race. Australia’s Lauren Parker captured the gold medal in 1:03:57. Taylor’s time was 1:08:37.<\/p>\n
Canada’s mixed relay team of Desirae Ridenour of Cowichan Bay, B.C., Tyler Mislawchuk of Oak Bluff, Montreal’s Isla Britton and Charles Paquet of Port-Cartier, Que., placed ninth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-797777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}