American triathlete Gwen Jorgensen won her 11th straight world series race while in the men's race Vincent Luis of France won his first on Saturday.
In Hamburg - the seventh event on the ITU circuit - Jorgensen was pushed until the last 500 meters by Vicky Holland of Britain, the only other series winner this year apart from Jorgensen, in Cape Town.
Jorgensen won by five seconds in a time of 57 minutes and 8 seconds, while Brit Non Stanford took bronze.
Gillian Backhouse was the best of the Australians in 12th, a minute and 14 seconds behind Jorgensen.
Ashleigh Gentle (14th), Charlotte McShane (18th), Emma Jackson (19th) and Erin Densham (45th) made up the rest of the Australian contingent while Natalie Van Coevorden did not finish.
Jorgensen was among the leading five out of the women's swim. But the lead group on the bike leg swelled to 26.
Holland was in the leading trio on the run, which Jorgensen began nine seconds down. But the American caught them on the second lap, and Holland clung to her longer than expected.
"A lot was going through my head at the end, Vicky really pushed me," Jorgensen said. "I could feel her right there on my shoulder, so I knew it was going to be a fight until the end."
Luis won by four seconds in a time of 51 minutes and 54 seconds, separating from four-time world champion Javier Gomez Noya with only 300 meters to go.
"It's really good for me, but really it is good for the French," Luis said of what was also his team's first triumph.
Luis and Gomez were among the leading nine out of the swim leg. They hung together through the bike race, and the pair broke ahead at the start of the run, turning it into a two-man race. Gomez retained his No. 1 ranking.
Mario Mola of Spain came back with one of the fastest recorded five-kilometres runs in triathlon to finish third, 26 seconds off the pace.
Of the Australians, Aaron Royle was an impressive fifth only 43 seconds behind Luis ahead of Ryan Bailie (15th), Ryan Fisher (23rd), Cameron Good (48th), Brendan Sexton (51st) and Jacob Birtwhistle (59th).
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