{"id":27926,"date":"2025-08-17T06:20:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T04:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/challengefamily.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=27926"},"modified":"2025-08-17T06:39:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T04:39:03","slug":"phillips-and-malowiecki-take-victories-at-challenge-gunsan-saemangeum","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/news\/phillips-and-malowiecki-take-victories-at-challenge-gunsan-saemangeum\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillips and Malowiecki Take Victories at Challenge Gunsan-Saemangeum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mike Phillips (NZL) and Sophie Malowiecki (AUS) beat South Korea\u2019s heat and humidity to take well-earned victories at Challenge Gunsan-Saemangeum today, with Malowieki posting her first professional win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicholas Free (AUS) led the men out of the water in 27:44 while Phillips was a couple of minutes down, exiting the water hot on the heels of Caleb Noble (AUS) but it wasn\u2019t long before he showed his power on the bike, overtaking Noble, Tuan Chan Chung (TPE) and Miao Hao (CHN), among others, to take the lead, a position he held for the remainder of the bike. Behind him, the battle was on between Noble and Hao but neither was in touch with Phillips. Noble came into T2 6:03 down on Phillips with Hao a further minute back. While it seemed like the makeup of the podium was decided, if not the final placings, Chung had other ideas and flew up the field, overtaking both Noble and Hao to take second behind the New Zealander. Final men\u2019s placing were Phillips in 3:50:31, Chung in 3:59:19 and Noble in 3:59:55.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a tough day out there,\u201d said Phillips. \u201cThere was a nice little group of us in the swim then I managed to get a bit of a breakaway on the bike. At each turn around I got a good idea of how everyone behind me was going and was able to increase the gap each time. I\u2019ve come from the middle of winter in New Zealand so it was definitely a bit of a shock racing in these hot conditions!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Mike Phillips Takes Win at Challenge Gunsan-Saemangeum\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E_E59IOB4j8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the women\u2019s race, Malowiecki led from start to finish, exiting the swim in 30:23, nearly three minutes ahead of Kate Bevilaqua (AUS). Once on the bike there was no stopping her and she came into T2 with a clear lead over Katie Remond (AUS) with Bevilaqua in third. On the run she was also untouchable, taking the victory in 4:22:52. Behind her, a course error by Remond resulted in a DSQ, with Sarah Thomas (AUS) taking second in 4:40:43 and Lauren Hume (AUS) rounding out the podium in 4:43:33.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m definitely relieved to take the win,\u201d said Malowiecki at the finish line. \u201cIt was a long day out of the front and I just had to believe in myself and my race plan. This is my first Challenge race and I\u2019ve really enjoyed my experience and everyone was really welcoming.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Maiden Win for Sophie Malowiecki at Challenge Gunsan-Saemangeum\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YDvqIS_EbKU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For full results, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/mypb.info\/tracker\/1\">https:\/\/mypb.info\/tracker\/1<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Phillips (NZL) and Sophie Malowiecki (AUS) beat South Korea\u2019s heat and humidity to take well-earned victories at Challenge Gunsan-Saemangeum today, with Malowieki posting her first professional win. Nicholas Free (AUS) led the men out of the water in 27:44 while Phillips was a couple of minutes down, exiting the water hot on the heels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":27927,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27926","news","type-news","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Phillips and Malowiecki Take Victories at Challenge Gunsan-Saemangeum - Challenge Family<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mike Phillips and Sophie Malowiecki beat South Korea\u2019s heat and humidity to take well-earned victories at Challenge Gunsan-Saemangeum\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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