During the swim and bike leg the Dutchman was still racing for one of the five slots, coming out of the water together with later winner Timo Bracht (GER) in 17th position and slowly progressing till 4th position at km 80 in the race. Steve Larssen and James Bonney (USA) passed him, while Gosselink sticked to his own plan and did not accelerate. However at the end of the marathon Gosselink passed them both again. On the coastal Highway a few kilometers before the transition area Christophe Bastie (FRA) and Dave Harju (CAN) came by.
These two ran together the whole marathon, with the Frechman taking the fifth slot in with a run time of 3.04.49. Guido Gosselink, in the Ironman-distance triathlon of Almere good for 3.05.10, now ran a disappointing 3.18.26. He finished 14th in 8.56.35. This race was Gosselink's 15th Ironman distance race (3.8km swim, 180 km bike, 42.2 km run) and his 10th with a time under 9 hours.
Results Ironman triatlon Florida, 8 nov 2003
(3.8km swim, 180 km bike, 42.2 km run
1 08:30:29 BRACHT, TIMO EBERBACH GER
2 08:35:18 YASTERBOV, ANDREY KIEV UKR
3 08:38:05 TISSINK, RAYNARD WELTEVREDENP RSA
4 08:39:34 LANGBRANDTER, NORBERT SAALFELDEN AUT
5 08:42:14 BASTIE, CHRISTOPHE SAINT-CHAMON FRA
14 08:56:35 GOSSELINK, GUIDO ENSCHEDE NLD
Race information on www.ironmanflorida.com.
Full results on www.ironmanlive.com.
See more info on www.ironmanflorida.com
31 august 2003 -
The Dutch triathletes Guido Gosselink and Frank Heldoorn came out of
the water in the first group of six athletes. A fast transition brought
them in front and the worked hard to build a big lead on the fast
runners, Gerrit Schellens, Peter Kropko and Victor
Zyemstev. At the 160 km mark Gosselink had to let go Heldoorn, who took
a few minutes in the end. During the run Schellens was the fastest man
of the day with a 2.38 marathon, passing Kropko, Gosselink and at 35km
Heldoorn. Kropko passed Gosselink, who had took a sanitary stop, at the half-way mark. Victor
Zyemstev (UKR) was not able to catch Gosselink 
Results:1. Gerrit Schellens (BEL) 8.21.53
2. Frank Heldoorn (NED) 8.23.54
3. Peter Kropko (HUN) 8.35.47
4. Guido Gosselink (NED) 8.37.36
5. Victor Zyemstev (UKR) 8.50.11
6. Achim Demming (GER) 8.51.22
7. Chris Brands (NED) 8.53.49
8. Michael Krijnen (NED) 9.02.24
9. Stephan Adriaens (BEL) 9.07.29
10.Steffen Hartig (GER) 9.09.52
Gosselink: "With 30 hours of training this week I started quite conservative, let the others take off and I took the lead when they started to fade a little. I suppose I've overcome all the effforts in Denmark and I hope to be good in two weeks in Almere on the classic distances of the Holland Triathlon."
Fastest woman was Tanya de Boer, member of Triathlon Club Twente from Enschede. She ran down the experienced Brigit Landewe from Boekelo. Anke Tuinman, girlfriend of the men's winner, took third.
STEP ONE Duathlon Enschede 17 august 2003
10 km run- 40km bike- 5 km run
Men
1 Guido Gosselink Enschede 1:52:30
2 Cees Colijn Apeldoorn 1:55:05
3 Wico Hopman Enschede 1:57:43
4 Harry Ruumpol Ruurlo 1:58:12
5 Jasper Reenalda Enschede 1:58:42
Women
1 Tanya de Boer Beek 2:08:43
2 Brigit Landewe Boekelo 2:09:33
3 Anke Tuinman Enschede 2:13:52
4 Annemarie Wessels Arnhem 2:18:28
5 Saskia Bekhuis Enschede 2:21:36
11 august 2003 - Five
weeks after winning the Dutch title on the Long Distance in Stein Guido
Gosselink
improved himself to win a historical first silver medal at the European
Championships
in Denmark. In Stein Gosselink finished second behind Gerrit Schellens
from
Belgium, but in this race Gosselink created a large gap on the bike to
try
to put up the fast running Schellens with an impossible task to catch
Gosselink.
Danish pre-race favorite Torbjorn Sindballe only gave 45 seconds away
on
Gosselink on the bike and was able to pass him in the first of four
laps
on the run. Gosselink then held on to the second place, although
Schellens
came back to less than a minute, running 11 minutes faster than
Gosselink.
A penalty lap given to Schellens by showing him the black card for
drafting
was just enough to keep him from silver.
29 july 2003 - Coming sunday August 3rd Guido
Gosselink will start in the European Championship Long Distance
Triathlon in Fredericia
(Denmark).
7 july 2003 - Gosselink
started for the 12th time in Holten, the race he won twice (1996 and
1997).
This year it was a race to show his national red-white-blue jersey to
the
local public in what is his home-race by now. Six day recovery was enough to be fit, but
in this strong field of the ITU-points
races he was not able to be a real factor in the field. Gosselink
finished
27th in 1.53.38, four minutes behind world's number three, ex-world
champion
Dimitry Gaag from Kazachstan.
30 june 2003 - During
the Dutch Championship Long Distance, held yesterday in Stein, Limburg,
Guido
Gosselink made true by finishing second behind the Belgian Gerrit
Schellens
and first in the national championship the long lasting believe that he
was
capable of winning the national title.The triathlete from Enschede stood on the podium already eight times at all distances and disciplines: long distance triathlon, middle distance triathlon, olympic distance triathlon, duathlon and wintertriathlon. But he never won a gold medal, always bronze or silver.
During the 3km swim in the Juliana-canal Gosselink had to let Casper van den Burgh swim away 45 seconds. On the bike Gosselink and Schellens were soon to be found on the position two and three in the race. Frank Heldoorn lost contact with them after a mechanical stop on the Snijdersberg, the heaviest climb in the course. Van den Burgh's lead grew to over 3 minutes after two of the four bike laps. Then he started to have stomach problems and had to slow down a bit. Gosselink, unable to loose Schellens on the bike, almost closed the gap until 45 seconds.
Schellens started fast on the run and after 2 km he was leading the race. Without any threat he ran to a lead of over six minutes. It took Gosselink a little more time to catch Van den Burgh, but in the last two laps he ran four minutes away from him. Van den Burgh just had enough power to stay ahead of Heldoorn to collect the silver at the championship.
The Dutch Championship podium: 2. Casper van den Burgh, 1. Guido Gosselink, 3. Frank Heldoorn.
18 june 2003 -
A team of Triathlon
Club
Twente, composed by Enschede triathletes Jan Wullink, Jasper Reenalda
and
Guido Gosselink competed in the triathlon of Obernai in France. This
villages,
close to the Vosges was the place for one of France topraces with a
price
purse of 15.000 Euro, which attracted an international field. 
Guido Gosselink's bike in the transition area
Pre-race favorite was New Zealand's Shane Reed, who had placed second in the Open Dutch Championships and even won the Open German Championships last two weekends.
Concentration
before the start
He proved to be the only right favorite, with the fastest swim and run time in this drafting free Olympic Distance. The bike leg (45 km) over the Mount St. Odile (over 500m climbing), was tough, but Reed was able to stay in front. Team mate Ritchie Cunningham (Aus) ran to second place, just seconds before fastest biker Yannick Bourseaux from France. Fastest from Triathlon Club Twente was Guido Gosselink, at eighth place after a sprint to the finish with LePetit from France (see picture). With Jasper Reenalda at position 47 and Jan Wullink at position 53 the team reached 7th place. They both will compete at Ironman France next weekend in Gerardmer, also situated in the Vosges in France.
Full
results can found at www.triathlon-obernai.fr.st
Team Triathlon Club Twente with coach and
photographer Alexander Vogelaar.
Team Triathlon Club Twente with coach and
photographer Alexander Vogelaar.
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More than 100 employees of FBK-headsponsor THALES-Nederland did their prepration for this race via trainingsclinics, guided by some of The Netherlands topathletes. In the special Thales result list Guido Gosselink took the first place before Dave Bekers and Jos Alberink.
12 may 2002 - Guido
Gosselink finished a reasonable 25th at the World Championships Long
Distance
Triathlon on the island Ibiza (Spain). This was only his second race
for
Gosselink, who was wounded in an accident in which a car crashed into
him
only seven weeks before. A second place, last week in Breukelen showed
that
Gosselink was able to start in Ibiza.Gosselink had a good start with a solid swim, in a large group of triathletes at about 3 minutes of the leaders. During the bike leg a large group was formed, which grew because some of the faster swimmers were overtaken by the group. Due to the fact that the jury was very mild against drafting this group stayed together until the end of the bike leg. Only the later winner Eneko Llanos (Spain) was able to stay ahead and started to run in first position. A fast start of the group was too much for Gosselink to follow and he managed to stay in the top 15 until the 25km point. Here he started to have stomach problems and had to throw up. The last few kilometers felt like miles and he fell back to the 25th place.
After the race Gosselink told that he, apart from the problems in the last 5 km, was very pleased with the race, knowing his very far from optimal preparation. Now it is a question of time to train for the following race to have the base optimal again.
Gosselink himself: "This race was still a little bit to early for me. In the preparation I lost too many trainingshours. Now I'm going to train for the coming races and I have the feeling that I can show some nice results this season. At least I have shown that I'm fully recovered after my crash and this gives me confidence for the near future!"
Results World Championships Long distance Ibiza:
Ladies:
1 VIRGINIA BERASATEGUI ESP 6:19:22 h
2 ANA BURGOS ESP 6:20:16 h
3 SIONE JONGSTRA NED 6:30:55 h
Men:
1 ENEKO LLANOS ESP 5:37:16 h
2 RUTGER BEKE BEL 5:38:27 h
3 XAVIER LE FLOCH FRA 5:38:59 h
25 GUIDO GOSSELINK NED 5:58:33 h
27 april 2003 - During
the 31st Batavierenrace, a relay-run from Nijmegen to Enschede, Guido
Gosselink
ran for the students Triathlon club Aloha the last stage, 8.2 km from
Boekelo
to Enschede. After leading the field at 400m he had to let go the
toprunners.
With a time of 28.25 he was 27th of the 284 runners. He was the only
one
not to suffer from the pouring rain, which turned the track on the
University
of Twente into a swimmingpool. 
20 march 2003 - At
the half-marathon of Aalten in the Netherlands Guido Gosselink was the
fastest Dutchman behind Kenians John Langat Kipsumbai (1.07.31) en
David
Koech (1.08.27). Gosselink ran with 1.13.31 only 44 seconds above his
personal
best time of 1.12.47, run in Egmond aan Zee in 1999.
26
february 2003 - Rotor
continous their support to Guido Gosselink in 2003, by providing him
with
the titanium crank for his Cannondale R2000 Aero Ironman triathlon road
bike and the steal crank for his Cannondale mountainbike.
20
february 2003 - Guido Gosselink had his first race of the 2003
season
traditionally in Egmond aan Zee, the pittoresque village at the beach
in
northern Netherlands. On saturday january 11th Gosselink biked to a
27th
place among the bike specialists and on sunday january 12th he ran
1.16.20
for the beach and dunes half marathon. His total time was the fastest
of
all combi-competitors, the first win for Gosselink.