Bermuda?s Lynn Patchett produced an outstanding performance in yesterday?s Duathlon Long Course World Championships in Frederic, Denmark, to come away with the silver medal in the women?s 35-39 age group.

The former May 24 Marathon Derby winner also placed second overall among the amateur women while her partner Ricky Sousa enjoyed a superb race in the men?s 40-44 age group, finishing in seventh place.

Patchett?s performance marked the highest finish ever by a Bermuda athlete in a triathlon or duathlon world championship event.

However, she was still left wondering what might have been as she led fellow 35-39 age grouper Michelle Parsons of Great Britain by one minute, 27 seconds after the first 20 kilometre run and by a whopping four minutes and 25 seconds after the 120 kilometre bike.

In the last 10K run Patchett?s earlier efforts began to take their toll as she slowed dramatically to finish that phase in a pedestrian 55 minutes and 28 seconds.

Her overall time was six hours, five minutes and 48 seconds while Parsons produced a final run of 48 minutes and six seconds to take the gold in 6:02:51.

Sousa, meanwhile, was eighth after the first 20K run which he finished in 1:19:39 and pulled up one place on the bike. He crossed the line in five hours, 36 minutes and four seconds.

On Saturday in Caledon, Ontario, 17-year-old Bermudian Coyatito Smith produced another solid race in the Canadian 16-19 Junior Triathlon Championships to take 27th place out of 57 competitors in a field which included a number of top USA juniors.

Smith finished the 750 metre swim, 22 kilometre bike and five kilometre run in one hour, 13 minutes and 33 seconds with only 19 Canadian juniors ahead of him.

Seven of the top 16 competitors were US juniors, including winner Stephen Duplinsky (1:04:28).

Smith emerged from the swim ? which judging by the slow times in the men?s elite race was longer than expected ? in 11 minutes and 45 seconds and in 35th place but within seconds of a large group ahead of him.

On a difficult, hilly course, two kilometres longer than the usual 20K, Smith settled in well in a group of ten to finish the bike in 40.04 (25th best).

There was no respite on the run which was also hilly but Smith?s time of 21 minutes, 44 seconds (34th best) was disappointing as he considers this his strongest discipline.

However, he admitted that his effort on the bike had sapped his strength for the run.

Smith?s coach, Dave Morrison, was pleased with the teenager?s efforts, noting that he still had two more years to compete in these championships.

He will now train with Canadian coach Barrie Shepley in Caledon before joining Morrison and his TRex team-mates in Drummondville, Quebec, to compete in the Cascades Triathlon, the third race in the Canadian 16-19 junior elite race series.