The Ironman has moved to new venue Waterhead on the shores of Windermere, from Wasdale, and triathletes will be swimming in Windermere, cycling over all the Lakeland passes, and running a tough marathon to the top of Scafell Pike and back. Advertisement The film was made by Ambleside-based Steve Ashworth of Movie-It, the adventure specialists. …
A week after winning WTS Abu Dhabi Brit Jodie Stimpson has won the ITU Triathlon World Cup in Mooloolaba, Australia. Advertisement After a strong 750m sea swim, Stimpson got into a lead group of ten women on the bike, and made a move early in the 5km run to set up the victory. “It’s great…
Following its debut at Rio later this year, Paratriathlon is to be included in the 2018 Commonwealth Games on Australia’s Gold Coast for the first time ever. Advertisement There will just be one class for men and women, the PT1, which is for wheelchair users. Athletes use a recumbent handcycle on the bike course and…
Now its fifth year, the Ironman Legacy Program has once again granted 100 athletes the opportunity to compete in the prestigious Ironman World Championship at Kona. Advertisement Of these 100 chosen five are from the UK including Rav Dighe, Amin Golbidi, Bob Gordon, Alistair McVeigh, and Mark Walsh, and one from Ireland, John Milne. To be eligible for selection for Kona…
The ITU World Paratriathlon season starts this Sunday in Buffalo City, South Africa and Brits Lauren Steadman and Alison Patrick will be hoping to seal their Paralympic Games selections. Others are chasing ranking points that will help them qualify later in the season. Advertisement >>> Paratriathlon: the ultimate guide Steadman and Patrick can achieve automatic selection…
The British duo will be joined by fellow male athletes Gordon Benson andTom Bishop, who will be hoping to impress the British selectors for Rio and get the third spot on the team with the Brownlees. Advertisement The women’s race features Jodie Stimpson and Helen Jenkins, who will be looking to impress British selectors…
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When the Pro Triathlon Union launched in July last year, the frisson of optimism soon gave way to an air of scepticism. With a board hastily assembled at a closed-shop triathletes’ meeting in Bahrain, it offered little to deliver cohesion in a disparate sport. Advertisement Long-course professionals struggling to pay their rent were irked at…
The 40th birthday of Ironman was always going to be a special race, and so it proved with the Kona debut of Javier Gomez, course records broken, emotional stories of redemption and some heavyweights showdowns between the world’s greatest long-course athletes. Advertisement Grabbing the headlines in the men’s elite event was Patrick Lange, who broke…
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