Watching Emma Pallant-Browne unleash some serious speed on the final leg of the 2022 Ironman 70.3 Championship was a masterclass in race pacing. It was all the more impressive knowing that the 33-year-old’s early track career was cut short by recurrent knee injury… a problem which led her to triathlon.
And thank the multisporting gods that it did, as Pallant-Browne is now one of the world’s top half-iron-distance athletes, racking up dozens of wins since she made the move to the middle in 2016. In 2022 alone she’s managed to bag six of them, as well as taking bronze at the 70.3 Worlds in St George, how she’s planning to win more…