{"id":8054,"date":"2021-05-07T06:41:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T06:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=8054"},"modified":"2021-05-07T06:41:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T06:41:12","slug":"ironman-buy-lagardere-sports-endurance-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=8054","title":{"rendered":"Ironman buy Lagard\u00e8re Sports\u2019 endurance division"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ironman have announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Lagard\u00e8re Sports\u2019 endurance division, which includes races in three continents and eight countries, including ITU races.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The long-course race organiser will now own and\/or operate an additional five International Triathlon Union (ITU) events, four marathons, six cycling races as well as a number of other participation events. These events are expected to serve an estimated 140,000 participants in 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cLagard\u00e8re Sports has built innovative and world-class events which,\u00a0when added to our global event portfolio,\u00a0further builds our company and strengthens the entire endurance business under the roof of Wanda Sports Holding,\u201d said Andrew Messick,\u00a0Ironman\u2019s Chief Executive Officer. \u201cThese iconic events, and the teams that have created and managed them,\u00a0will\u00a0further strengthen our position in\u00a0triathlon, expand our portfolio in running, and establish\u00a0ourselves\u00a0in\u00a0cycling.\u201d<\/p>\n

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ITU PARTNERSHIP<\/p>\n

Ironman and the ITU have recently worked together on unified and global standard rules for triathlon, as well as several athlete development initiatives. With this acquisition, Ironman will now own and operate the ITU World Triathlon Hamburg (pictured above), ITU World Triathlon Leeds, ITU World Triathlon Abu Dhabi, ITU World Triathlon Stockholm and ITU World Triathlon Cape Town.<\/p>\n

With Ironman\u2019s current ownership of the ITU World Triathlon Gold Coast, it now owns and operates six of the nine events in the ITU World Triathlon Series.<\/p>\n

\u201cLagard\u00e8re Sports has been a long-standing and fantastic\u00a0partner to the ITU. It is with their commitment to the sport of triathlon that we raised the bar and brought triathlon to the masses over the last eight years. I fully believe the transition of these events to Ironman will serve to further strengthen our sport on a global level,\u201d said Marisol Casado, ITU President and IOC Member.<\/p>\n

Listed below are the races to be added to the Ironman portfolio. We\u2019ll have more on how this story will affect age-group athletes when we\u2019ve spoken to both the ITU and Ironman.<\/p>\n

ITU<\/strong><\/p>\n

ITU World Triathlon Abu Dhabi<\/p>\n

ITU World Triathlon Cape Town<\/p>\n

ITU World Triathlon Hamburg<\/p>\n

ITU World Triathlon Leeds<\/p>\n

ITU World Triathlon Stockholm<\/p>\n

Cycling<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hamburg Cyclassics<\/p>\n

Velothon Berlin<\/p>\n

Velothon Wales<\/p>\n

Velothon Copenhagen<\/p>\n

Velothon Stockholm<\/p>\n

Velothon Stuttgart\u00a0<\/p>\n

Running<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hamburg Marathon<\/p>\n

Hawkes Bay International Marathon<\/p>\n

Marathon de Bordeaux<\/p>\n

Queenstown Marathon<\/p>\n

Music Run Hamburg<\/p>\n

Music Runs in Germany, UK, France, Sweden & South Africa\u00a0<\/p>\n

Multisport, Festival, Other<\/strong><\/p>\n

Duathlon Cape Town<\/p>\n

Duathlon Sandton<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Motatapu<\/p>\n

The Pioneer<\/p>\n

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Image: triathlon.org<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Ironman have announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Lagard\u00e8re Sports\u2019 endurance division, which includes races in three continents and eight countries, including ITU races. Advertisement The long-course race organiser will now own and\/or operate an additional five International Triathlon Union (ITU) events, four marathons, six cycling races as well as a number…<\/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-8054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054","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=8054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}