EVERY year the Bathurst representation at the Big Husky Triathlon Festival grows bigger and bigger - and so does the city's appearances on the podium throughout the weekend.
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On Sunday Hollee Simons, Terry Roberts and Lucy Hobson were all able to take their position on age category podiums in the ultimate distance events while the latter's father, Richard, was the aquabike race champion at the Huskisson festival.
Simons and Lucy Hobson finished 1-2 respectively in the 20-24 years women's race over the half Ironman distance.
Simons caught Hobson on the bike leg and went on to complete the 1.9 kilometre swim, 90km ride and 21.1km run in 5:20:37.
Roberts narrowly missed the five hour barrier (5:00:40) on his way to a bronze in the competitive 55-59 men's age group.
Tom Hanrahan was Bathurst's top overall finisher over the ultimate distance at 68th. His bike leg was the standout in his time of 4:54:20.
Richard Hobson's aquabike success was a spotlight stealing moment for the Bathurst club.
Hobson - an age category winner in last year's ultimate distance event - fought back from outside the top three on the swim to power home on the bike and be victorious in a time of 2:56:08.
The aquabike was the perfect event for Hobson to take a stab at, as he continues his recovery from an achilles injury.
And now that he's had a taste of it Hobson's already got his eye on future events in the swim-bike format.
"It was great to win it overall, and to beat the younger guys was good. Knowing you don't have to get off and run is even better," he laughed.
"Something we found out down there is that Husky will be hosting the Aquabike Australian Championships for the next three years and, with that in mind, the ITU are hosting a World Championship in Townsville in 2021 and that might be something I concentrate on.
"If there's an opportunity to win an Australian or world title you've got to seriously look at it."
Hobson said it was satisfying to make a successful catch of his younger rivals.
"There were two young guys in Australian kits who I thought would be the ones to watch out for and sure enough one of them took me until the start of the third lap on the bike to catch him," he said.
"It took me ages to hunt him down but I managed to get there and put another two minutes on him."
In other Bathurst results, Josh Stapley was 16th overall in the ocean swim while Brooke Tuynman won bronze in the aquathon ahead of Renee Covington (4th) and Laycee Covington-Gorst (7th). Kristy Powyer was third for her age in the longer aquathon event.
Bathurst was 1-2 in the super sprint Athenas category through Laycee Covington-Gorst and Amanda Robinson 2nd, Danielle Patterson won silver in her super sprint division, Jane Bennett was fourth and Nick North was second in the 5km run- while Jack Hayes broke the 40minute barrier in the Super Sprint Triathlon
A 1-2 finish for Bathurst once again came in the sprint triathlon Athenas category with Carly Sewell and Renee Covington. Matthew Hayes was fifth in the Clyde category.
Josh Corcoran finished inside the top 10 for his age group, while Emily Hines was just outside the top 10 in her category with an 11th placing.
Other Wallabies Triathlon Club members Barb Hill, Pip Press, Tania Pringle, Alison Corcoran, Rebecca O'Connor and Michael O'Connor all had strong performances in the event.
Bathurst's team of Tuynman, Angela Jones and Bronte Covington-Gorst also were impressive in a competitive teams section.
Bathurst athletes were also in action during the classic triathlon event.
Couple Luke and Danielle Patterson both got under the four hour mark in the race with Luke finishing in 3:23:44 and Danielle sneaking under the mark with 3:59:34 - an impressive effort considering it was her second start for the weekend.