On a hot and windy day at one of triathlon’s most spectacular and historic races, Daniela Ryf has taken her second consecutive Challenge Roth title in front of 200,000+ spectators. Her currently unofficial time of 8:40:03 fell short of Chrissie Wellington’s 8:18hr iron-distance world record, but was still the 10th fastest women’s iron time in…
Month: March 2021
Ironman Wales to offer 65 Kona slots
Ironman have announced that September’s Ironman Wales in Tenby will be allocated 25 additional qualifying slots for the 2018 Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, taking the total number of slots available to 65. Advertisement The race on Wales’ south-west coast has become a firm athlete favourite and now carries the added prestige as a…
Ribble launches Nuovo clothing range
Brit online bike giants Ribble Cycles has today launched a new collection of bike apparel; the Nuovo cycling clothing range. Advertisement Targeted at both male and female cyclists, the Nuovo clothing collection initially consists of cycling jerseys and shorts, with more items to be released in the coming months. The short-sleeved jersey is priced at…
Flora Duffy takes third straight WTS win
Blink and you might have missed this year’s WTS Hamburg sprint-distance women’s race, which saw reigning world champ Flora Duffy make light(ish) work of the historic German city’s streets to win her first WTS sprint distance and her third straight WTS race of 2017. Advertisement Just off the 750m swim pace, which saw Brazil’s Vittoria…
Mario Mola repeats Hamburg win to lead World Triathlon Series
The 2017 Hamburg men’s WTS race came down to a 5km blast-out, with almost the entire field having sat in for the six-lap 20km bike. Advertisement Heading the standings going into the fifth race of the season was Spain’s Fernando Alarza, looking for his first victory of 2017 having collected a string of silver and…
Super League Triathlon comes to Jersey
The organisers of the new Super League Triathlon, which debuted in Australia in March, have announced that Jersey will be the second location of the event. Fifty of the world’s leading male and female triathletes, including 25 Olympians from around the world, will compete in the Channel Islands, UK, for the Super League Triathlon crown…
Bolton to stay as home of Ironman UK
Click:cnc programmer Ironman have announced that the full 226km distance Ironman UK will remain in Bolton, Greater Manchester, until 2022. Bolton will also continue to host the world’s biggest Ironkids event, with 2,500 children participating annually. Advertisement The announcement comes off the back of a 2017 event, won by Lucy Gossage and Cyril Viennot, which saw…
Duffy and Mola sprint to victory at Edmonton WTS
Bermuda’s Flora Duffy claimed her fourth consecutive WTS win of 2017 on Saturday to head the overall standings with three races to go. The defending champ won with an even bigger margin of victory than in Hamburg two weeks ago, in a time of 1:00:22, a full minute clear of second place Taylor Knibb of…
Double gold for GB paratriathletes in Edmonton
Great Britain’s paratriathletes produced strong performances to win two gold, four silver and a bronze medal in the final World Paratriathlon Series (WPS) race of the season in Edmonton, Canada. Gold medals came from Iraq veteran, Steve Crowley, and former England Cerebral Palsy footballer, Ryan Taylor. Advertisement In his first WPS event, Steve Crowley, led…
Samorin to remain host of the Challenge Championships
Following the success of June 2017’s inaugural The Championship, the Challenge Family have announced that the X-Bionic Sphere in Samorin, Slovakia, will be the host venue of the Championship for the next three seasons. Advertisement The 2018 Championship will take place on the 2-3 June 2018, and will adopt the same racing rules, including the new…