Hamburg BG Triathlon World Championships - On Sept 2, 2007, Andy did a great job at this event despite his injury. He didn't run for 6 weeks prior to this event to give his foot time to heal. He ran the event although painful and completed with an amazing time.

The world championships took place in Germany for the first time in triathlon history. The Hamburg BG Triathlon World Championships from 30 August to 02 September 2007 brought over 8.000 athletes from over 60 different nations to the Hanseatic City. In order to make Germany’s second biggest city aware of this sports highlight the official WC-Dome was installed in the river Binnenalster.

From 03 August 2007, the "world’s most beautiful natural swimming pool" was shrouded daily in a spectacular light from 09.00 pm to midnight. All four sides of the WC Dome were lit up to arouse WC atmosphere within the complete city centre. During daytime strolling inhabitants and visitors could note a digital countdown highlighting the remaining time until the start of the world championships.

The WC-Dome consisted of semicircular and translucent tent construction with a cupola 7.8 metres high. The dome was fastened to pontoons of 150 square metres, designed with the official logos and anchored about 70 metres off the landing docks of the Binnenalster. The main component of this unprecedented project was a spectacular 360° laser show by one of the biggest colour laser systems in the world. The total laser and light power was 59.000 watts alone. The idea and complete concept of the illuminations was developed by the artists Frank Dauer and Roman Mundhenk. Their storyboard was implemented and animated by computer scientists Dirk Grafe and Lennart Wietzke from LaserStudio (http://www.laserstudio.de). To project the forms and figures onto the cupola of the WC Dome two different laser sources, a sophisticated mirror system and a special micro controller, which was only developed for this project, were being used.