CHRIS Roxburgh finished inside the top 15 at the first of the World Series Duathlon races in Mallorca at the weekend.
Roxburgh, from Westbury Leigh, completed the race - two 10km runs sandwiching a 60km bike section - in two hours, 46 minutes and 23 second,s to come home in 14th against some high-quality rivals.
The 31 year old paramedic - an ETU Powerman Long Distance European Championships bronze medallist last year - was starting his first world series event and is building towards the European Championships in Copenhagen in early May.
He said: “Before the race, I would have been looking at the top 10 but when I saw who else was on the start line, I thought ‘oh’ so to be in the top 15 in that company I’m over the moon.
Roxburgh, also a British Duathlon Championships age-group silver medallist last year, will next complete the Bath Half Marathon in aid of Wiltshire Air Ambulance on March 13, with the British Championships - over the standard rather than Powerman distances - to follow in Windsor in early April.
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