Liam D’Abadie won the 18th an­nu­al Rain­bow Cup Sprint Triathlon ti­tle at Tur­tle Beach Her­itage Park, Black Rock, To­ba­go, yes­ter­day.

This af­ter the 16-year-old won a sprint to the fin­ish line of the 750-me­tre swim/20k cy­cle/5k run with 17-year-old Ja­cob Cox to win in one hour, nine min­utes and 29 sec­onds, just three sec­onds ahead of Cox (1:09.32), while Noah Teix­eira was a dis­tant third in 1:14:31, with 40-year-old Mar­lon Scott (1:17.26) and Trevor Bur­kett, 17, (1:18.21) com­plet­ing the top five spots, re­spec­tive­ly.

The win was the sec­ond on the trot for D’Abadie who won the in­au­gur­al Rain­bow Cup Sprint Triathlon held in Grena­da in April ahead of Teix­eira.

De­fend­ing cham­pi­on Ja­son Costel­loe who won last year’s event (1.5K swim, 40K bike and 10K run)—to fol­low up on the sprint triathlon crown he won in 2022, was a non-starter.

Among the spon­sors for the event were the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s (THA) Di­vi­sion of Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment, Youth De­vel­op­ment and Sport and M&M In­sur­ance Broking Ser­vices.