{"id":8125,"date":"2021-05-07T10:45:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T10:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=8125"},"modified":"2021-05-07T10:45:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T10:45:56","slug":"bahamas-island-house-invitational-attracts-star-studded-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=8125","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Island House Invitational attracts star-studded line-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

The luxury Bahamian Island House Hotel and the private island of Highbourne Clay will host the Island House Invitational Triathlon between 6-8 November, and will test the world-class field over a number of race formats over the three-day event.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The event will mix \u2018short-course speed with long-course endurance\u2019, with a short individual time-trial taking place on day 1 (500m swim\/8km bike\/2km run) a draft-legal multi-lap race on day 2 (three laps of 500m swim\/13km bike\/3.3km run) and finally a non-drafting sprint-distance race on the last day. The prize purse is one of the largest ever offered for a triathlon event, and is rumoured to be in the region of $500,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The two races on Highbourne Clay won\u2019t be accessible to the public and the entire event is strictly invitational, with the confirmed start list so far reading like a who\u2019s who of professional triathletes. Javier Gomez, Gwen Jorgensen, Richard Murray, Mirinda Carfrae and Tim Don are all confirmed amongst the 19 athletes invited to race.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Richard Murray and five-times ITU World Champion Javier Gomez, just two from the huge list of world-class triathletes whol will be competing in November<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Mark Holowesko, the financier behind the race and owner of the Island House Hotel in Nassau, has devised a cycling-influenced structure to the huge prize-fund, which will include leader\u2019s jerseys for fastest swimmer, cyclist and runner individually and an overall male and female winner\u2019s jersey at the end of the event.<\/p>\n

Pro triathletes Beth Gerdes and Luke McKenzie are the directors of the race (McKenzie is racing himself) with Gerdes telling Triathlete.com that the prologue stage being held on Nassau was a compromise to allow them to host the rest of the event on the private island of Highbourne Clay:\u00a0
\u201cStage 1 will be held on Nassau at the Island House, and\u00a0Highbourne Cay is a remote island in the Exuma chain, which would make spectating the entire event difficult this year unless you have a sailboat or sea plane \u2013 although it will definitely make for good TV!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

There will be social media coverage and live tracking of the races as it happens, and the event will be televised in January 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s line-up\u00a0\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Javier Gomez
Richard Murray
Aaron Royle
Ben Hoffman
Tim Don
Luke McKenzie
Leon Griffin
Barrett Brandon
Trevor Wurtele<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s line-up<\/p>\n

Gwen Jorgensen
Rachel Joyce
Leanda Cave
Heather Wurtele
Lisa Norden
Lauren Brandon
Mirinda Carfrae
Rachel Klamer
Nicola Spirig
Alicia Kaye<\/p>\n

You can find out more about the event at www.islandhousetriathlon.com<\/p>\n

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What do you think of this exciting new format, and who do you think will win? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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The luxury Bahamian Island House Hotel and the private island of Highbourne Clay will host the Island House Invitational Triathlon between 6-8 November, and will test the world-class field over a number of race formats over the three-day event. Advertisement The event will mix \u2018short-course speed with long-course endurance\u2019, with a short individual time-trial taking…<\/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-8125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8125","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=8125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}