{"id":7884,"date":"2021-03-15T07:15:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T07:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=7884"},"modified":"2021-03-15T07:15:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T07:15:54","slug":"race-preview-otillo-hosts-first-uk-race-in-the-scilly-isles-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=7884","title":{"rendered":"Race preview: \u00d6till\u00d6 hosts first UK race in the Scilly Isles this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Swimrun has definitely crossed the waters from Sweden to become the new multisport craze \u2013 and this weekend sees founding brand \u00d6till\u00d6 (Swedish for \u2018island to island\u2019) host its new UK qualifier in the Scilly Isles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In total 240 athletes will compete in teams of two for spots in the world championship race on 5th September, 2016. Competition is sure to be fierce, however to finish athletes must cross a total distance comprising 30km of running and 7.5km of swimming. The course starts in St. Mary\u2019s and also visits Tresco, St. Martin\u2019s and Bryher as competitors swim between islands then run across them, taking in beautiful and varied scenery along the way.<\/p>\n<p>The race has attracted athletes from 15 countries including the current women\u2019s \u00d6till\u00d6 Swimrun World Champion, Annika Ericsson from Sweden. Also competing (in seperate teams) is some serious UK swim talent \u2013 seven-time world champion triathlete Richard Stannard\u00a0(aka \u2018the Fish\u2019) and Swim Smooth founder and head coach Paul Newsome.<\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.ifootballshop.com\/liverpool-424.html' title='liverpool mens jersey'>liverpool mens jersey<\/a><\/p>\n<div    >\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Live tracking is available for the race on Saturday, follow the link here. Plus click here to find out more about other \u00d6till\u00d6 qualifying races.<\/p>\n<p>Issue 327 of <em>220 Triathlon<\/em> includes a complete guide to swimrun kit for would-be swimrunners. Click here to subscribe.<\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>See an image gallery from the 2015 world championship race here.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swimrun has definitely crossed the waters from Sweden to become the new multisport craze \u2013 and this weekend sees founding brand \u00d6till\u00d6 (Swedish for \u2018island to island\u2019) host its new UK qualifier in the Scilly Isles. Advertisement In total 240 athletes will compete in teams of two for spots in the world championship race on&#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-7884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884","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=7884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}