Ironman New Zealand runner-up Terenzo Bozzone disposed of some high quality competition to win the Ironman 70.3 event in Texas.

Bozzone beat off the challenge from Americans Chris Lieto and Andy Potts to win in 3:49.06 at Galveston today, a week ater finishing second behind Potts in New Orleans.

Potts led out of the water before being caught by the chasing pack on the bike where Lieto made his mark to open a 2min 30sec advantage off the 90km bike from the chasers including Bozzone, Britain;s Philip Graves, and Americans Tim O’Donnell and TJ Tollakson.

Bozzone emerged to take the lead late in the 21km run to win in a time of three hours 49 minutes 6 seconds to hold off O'Donnell by 29secs with Lieto third.

Results (United States unless stated):-

Terenzo Bozzone (NZ) 3:49:06 1, Timothy O'Donnell 3:49:35 2, Chris Lieto 3:50:35 3, Andy Potts 3:52:01, Tyler Butterfield 3:53:25 5, Paul Amey (Britain) 3:54:07 6, TJ Tollakson 3:57:06 7, Philip Graves (Britain) 3:58:26 8, Jeff Symonds (Canada) 3:58:56 9, Stephen Kilshaw (Canada) 4:06:08 10.