The Olympic silver medallist has placed second behind Belgian Jelle Geens with a time of three hours, 33 minutes and 22 seconds.

Wilde admits he was a little naive.

Fellow New Zealander Kyle Smith has placed fourth.

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18 Dec: High Performance Sport New Zealand is putting faith in cycling in the next Olympic cycle - boosting funding for the sport by 770 thousand dollars, with canoe racing and athletics also seeing sizeable jumps in support

16 Dec: Hayden Wilde's encouraged - and excited - by the prospect of more gruelling races as part of a renewed push for an Olympic gold

13 Dec: Kiwi triathlete Hannah Berry is determined to end her season in style at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Taupo tomorrow

13 Dec: A four year wait is nearly over for organisers of the ironman 70.3 world championships in Taupo

13 Dec: A local rivalry will reignite this weekend when Hayden Wilde returns to the longer form of triathlon at the Ironman 70.3 world championships in Taupo

07 Dec: Norway's Sander Skotheim wins World Athletics fair play award for supporting decathlon teammate Markus Rooth at Paris Olympics

04 Dec: Belief the threshold for All Black Sevu Reece's discharge without conviction, would've been high

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