{"id":7814,"date":"2021-03-15T01:10:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T01:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=7814"},"modified":"2021-03-15T01:10:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T01:10:03","slug":"ali-brownlee-to-race-beijing-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=7814","title":{"rendered":"Ali Brownlee to race Beijing International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>IMG and the Fengtai Sports Bureau of Beijing have announced that the Olympic gold medalist Alistair Brownlee will compete in the fifth edition of the Beijing International Triathlon on Sunday 11 September.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This will be Brownlee\u2019s first race since winning the gold in Rio, as well as his first time competing in the Beijing International Triathlon. He placed 12th in his first Olympics in Beijing 2008, then returned to Beijing in 2011 to win his second ITU world title. Brownlee is also a two-time ITU World Champion (2009 and 2011); three-time European Champion (2010, 2011 and 2014); and current Commonwealth Champion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to racing at Beijing International Triathlon and the challenge of the non-drafting format,\u201d said Brownlee. \u201cI think it\u2019ll be a tough race against a quality field, especially as I don\u2019t usually race the non-drafting format. I have always enjoyed racing in China and have fond memories from my two previous visits.\u201d<\/p>\n<div    >\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the non-drafting Olympic-distance (1.5km swim\/40km bike\/10km run) event, Brownlee will lead an elite field of professional triathletes including fellow Olympians Joe Maloy, Ashleigh Gentle, Vicente Hernandez and Barbara Riveros in the women\u2019s race. Lining up against Brownlee will be regular Beijing entrant Greg Bennett and rising US non-drafting talent Cam Dye.<\/p>\n<p>The Beijing International Triathlon will also be a return to China for Riveros who just captured fifth for Chile at the Rio Olympics, and also raced in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Professional triathletes participating in the 2016 Beijing International Triathlon include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Men:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Josh Amberger (Australia)<\/p>\n<p>Greg Bennett (Australia)<\/p>\n<p>Alistair Brownlee (Great Britain) \u2013 1st in Rio<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Collington (United States of America)<\/p>\n<p>Cameron Dye (United States of America)<\/p>\n<p>Eric Lagerstrom (United States of America)<\/p>\n<p>Joe Maloy (United States of America) \u2013 23rd in Rio<\/p>\n<p>Vicente Hernandez (Spain) \u2013 27th in Rio<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ashleigh Gentle (Australia) \u2013 26th in Rio<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Goss (United States of America)<\/p>\n<p>Holly Lawrence (Great Britain)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Barbara Riveros (Chile) \u2013 5th in Rio<\/p>\n<p>Magali Tisseyre (Canada)<\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Radka Vodickova (Czech Republic)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClick Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.ifootballshop.com\/liverpool-424.html' title='liverpool mens jersey'>liverpool mens jersey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMG and the Fengtai Sports Bureau of Beijing have announced that the Olympic gold medalist Alistair Brownlee will compete in the fifth edition of the Beijing International Triathlon on Sunday 11 September. Advertisement This will be Brownlee\u2019s first race since winning the gold in Rio, as well as his first time competing in the Beijing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}