Jan Frodeno from Germany has won the gold medal in the men’s triathlon at the Beijing Olympics, with a time of 1:48:53.

It was a close finish between Jan Frodeno and Canadian Simon Whitfield who won the silver medal. Frodeno must have saved a bit of energy to enable him to break away at the final stretch and win the gold medal.

Bevan Docherty from New Zealand won the bronze medal.