Photo Of The Year: Week Two Result

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By Fergus Murray | 12 Nov, 2010

Voting in our second instalment of Photo of the Year was a lot closer than the previous week. Two images standout with over half the votes and it swung between these two all week for the lead.

In the end an image of young Hungarian athlete, Zsófia Tóth deep in concentration during pre race warm up won out by a comfortable margin of 8.5% of the votes. The image is genuinely striking capturing the true intensity of an athlete’s pre race routine.

Now we’ve had the reader’s choice its back to our camera artist Delly Carr for his choice and why.

“I get excitement when looking at this image because it is a true action sports picture. I have two champions of the sport in their final seconds of their sprint to the finish line.

Nothing special about that I guess, but when you focus on their facial expressions, their running posture and their bulging leg muscles, you know immediately that these two athletes are at their peak physical limit of speed, power and stress on their body.

They are giving absolutely everything they have for the sweet taste of victory.” - Delly Carr

Camera: Nikon D3S
Exposure: F2.8
ASA: 200
Lens: 70-200mm

In the end it was very close between two fantastic pictures, but it is our reader’s choice that progresses to the final. See all the nominees here

Related Event: 2010 Dextro Energy Triathlon - ITU World Championship Series Seoul

08 May, 2010 • event page • all results

Results: Elite Women
1.	Daniela Ryf	SUI	02:00:59
2.	Barbara Riveros	CHI	02:01:02
3.	Emma Moffatt	AUS	02:01:04
4.	Nicola Spirig	SUI	02:01:05
5.	Andrea Hansen	NZL	02:01:06
6.	Emma Snowsill	AUS	02:01:10
7.	Mariko Adachi	JPN	02:01:16
8.	Jessica Harrison	FRA	02:01:31
9.	Helen Jenkins	GBR	02:01:44
10.	Sarah Haskins	USA	02:02:02

Results: Elite Men
1.	Jan Frodeno	GER	01:51:49
2.	Courtney Atkinson	AUS	01:51:50
3.	Brad Kahlefeldt	AUS	01:52:17
4.	Steffen Justus	GER	01:52:21
5.	Alexander Bryukhankov	RUS	01:52:28
6.	Dmitry Polyanskiy	AIN	01:52:34
7.	Bevan Docherty	NZL	01:52:39
8.	Jarrod Shoemaker	USA	01:52:43
9.	Reto Hug	SUI	01:52:43
10.	William Clarke	GBR	01:52:54