Richard Murray made quick work of hunting down the leaders to win his second straight Discovery World Cup event in Cape Town on Sunday. Olympic bronze medallist Henri Schoeman was second for the second year in a row but he had been first out the water after the 750m swim leg of this sprint triathlon, 17sec ahead of 11th-placed Murray. Murray’s weakest discipline is the swim, and a good splash for him is bad news for the rest. He finished fourth at the Rio Olympics after a terrible swim, and on Sunday it was a good swim by his standards. Just 4.5km into the cycle Murray was sitting comfortably in the lead group of 11 including Schoeman, and that is how they finished the 20km ride. Murray and Schoeman quickly lost the group in the 5km run. "On the run I went out full gas at the start and Henri came with me for the first 800m or 700m so we really pushed at the start and I had to really dig to keep him off my heels," said Murray, who eventually won with a cushion of 24sec. Lukas Pertl o...
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