Staged on the Gold Coast, Windsor was one of six Bathurst Wallabies Triathlon Club members who were selected in the Australian team to contest the age group events.

Windsor qualified for both the sprint and standard distance events, the same races he contested at the Chicago based titles in 2015.

Back then he had two top five results and while he could not quite emulate that this time in his men’s 55-59 years division with an eighth in the sprint and fifth in the standard, he still impressed.

He covered the 750 metres swim, 20 kilometre cycle and 5km run of the sprint race in a time of one hour, six minutes, three seconds. It was also good enough to rank in the overall top 250 of the more than 1,500 age group competitors.

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The standard distance race – a 1.5km swim, 40km cycle and 10km run – saw him clock a 2:05.42.

He went faster in both races than he did at Chicago.

“I was really fired up to get on the podium, but I looked at my times and thought ‘Gee, I’ve got to give respect to these guys, they were flying’,” Windsor said of his successful rivals.

“When I looked at my times, I knew it was a pretty decent performance. The conditions were crazy, they banned discs because of the wind, so I had to change my bike set up and that interferes a lot with your preparation.

“But it was an enjoyable championships actually, I wasn’t all that positive about going up, but I finished it thinking that was a pretty cool thing to do. Particularly the guys that were up there with me, they were all really motivated type athletes.”

His first event was the sprint distance on Thursday. He took 11:39 for the swim to miss the main bunch on the bike.

But he averaged a tick over 43km/hr for the second half of the cycle leg to put himself in a position to claim a top-10 spot.

“It’s draft legal, so it nullifies my bike speed. Sometimes it works well if I can work out how to jump from bunch to bunch, but that didn’t really work,” he said.

“To get top 10 in that was actually a pretty good performance because my bike leg is obviously my weapon, but that was nullified.”

On Sunday Windsor backed up for the longer standard distance race. He covered the swim in a 22.08 split, but again it was on the bike that he shone most.

Impressively in the last 8.4km as he was thinking of a podium, he averaged 74.26km/hr. It meant he covered the distance in 58.47.

Windsor pushed at the start of his run leg, but eased off as the finish line loomed when he realised he could not reel in those ahead of him.

“I was running okay, I just knew I wasn’t as fast as those blokes – holy dooley they could run. I sort of got close enough to them to have a bit of a dig at the podium I thought, but they were just fast,” he said.

“So I was happy with a top five in the end and just knowing the other four blokes in that top five were too fast for me in the run to really hang on.”