33-year-old Duffy covered the distance in 1 hour 55 minutes 36 seconds, thus winning the second in history and the first gold medal of the Games in the history of the country.

The second place was taken by the British Georgia Taylor-Brown (+1.14), the American Katie Zaferes (+1.27) finished third.

Russians Anastasia Gorbunova and Alexandra Razarenova failed to complete the race.

Earlier it was reported that Bloommenfelt won gold at the 2020 Olympics in triathlon.