Olympic triathlon double bronze medallist Beth Potter returned to motion with second place within the World Triathlon Championship Collection in Yokohama.
Potter, who was 14th for Nice Britain over 10km in final month’s European Highway Operating Championships, completed 4 seconds behind Luxembourg’s Jeanne Lehair with Germany’s Lisa Tertsch in third, two seconds again.
Reigning Olympic and world champion Cassandre Beaugrand of France crashed out on lap six of the bike leg.
Therese Feuersinger of Austria held a slender lead over Tertsch and Lehair after the swim, with Potter and Beaugrand 14 seconds behind.
Climate circumstances resulted in a modified bike course and Potter and the chasing group caught up with the leaders by lap three.
Lehair went clear within the run and held on for victory, regardless of the Briton operating the quickest run leg within the race.
Within the Para races, Tokyo gold medallist and Paris bronze medallist Lauren Steadman was a snug winner of the ladies’s PT5 class, with Michael Taylor taking silver within the males’s PT4 behind French star Alexis Hanquinquant.
