It remained exciting for a long time at the World Triathlon Cup Rome, but in the end it was Frenchman Yanis Seguin who won the race. He did so in a wet Rome and after a run that remained exciting until the closing stages.
Nothing much really happened during the swim and bike, except that a large leading group formed and some men crashed due to the slippery roads. Dutchman Mitch Kolkman, seen in advance as one of the outsiders for example, went down in the first kilometers and lost the connection with the leading group.
Eventually the race was decided during the run and it was Luke Willian, Tayler Reid, Yanis Seguin, Baptiste Passemard, Henry Graf and Simon Westermann who ran together for a long time. The pace kept picking up, until a few hundred meters before the finish Seguin decided to push the pace even more to a speed nobody was able to follow anymore. He eventually won the race in a time of 55:34. Willian was second in 55:37 and Passemard third in 55:41.
