A DETERMINATION to give it one last shot and some words of encouragement from Alistair Brownlee spurred Alex Yee on to an extraordinary triathlon gold medal today.

The 26-year-old Londoner went into the delayed men’s race as the favourite but looked to have been beaten into silver by his big rival Hayden Wilde from New Zealand, who had a 14-second lead going into the final lap of the 10-kilometre run.

But Yee, who claimed silver in Tokyo, had kept just enough in his legs and surged past Wilde in the final 500 metres to cross the finish line first on the Pont Alexandre III.