Thursday 21 Jun 2018
Visitors to Mont-Tremblant will find that the area is filled with endless entertainment and recreational options. The pedestrian layout makes the city inviting and accessible, and boutiques, bistros and restaurants can all be found within walking distance of the IRONMAN Village. Additionally, the beach, transition area and bike and run courses are centrally located and easily accessible. more
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Thursday 21 Jun 2018
Vallé de Joux is in the Swiss Jura, 1 hour North from the fabulous City of Geneva. The race venue is not in the large Alpine mountain ranges like you imagine in Switzerland, but in the beautifully picturesque mini Alps that divide France from Switzerland. For the woman’s race, since Xterra Malta we have never had all of our main competitors on the start line together. But for Switzerland, the Top 6 from the Euro tour will be on the start line, which will make for a very exciting race. Morgane R more
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Tuesday 19 Jun 2018
Sam Osborne and Samantha Kingsford from New Zealand captured the XTERRA Albay off-road triathlon elite titles in the Philippines on Sunday. It’s the eighth XTERRA World Tour win for Osborne, and the first for Kingsford. With the win Osborne also secured the XTERRA Asia-Pacific Tour title for the second year in a row, while Penny Slater won the women’s tour by virtue of her second-place showing in Legazpi today. more
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Monday 18 Jun 2018
A thrilling battle dominated the KMD IRONMAN 70.3 European Championship, Elsinore both in the men’s and women’s pro race. Non-Europeans eventually claimed victories thanks to brilliant performances on the bike and run. While Europeans led the way in both races for the majority, it was on Aussie Melissa Hauschildt to bike and run into first place in women’s race while American Rodolphe von Berg took the title in the men’s competition. more
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Monday 18 Jun 2018
New courses, new timetable, „old“ winners – that’s the essence of the 4th issue of Sparkassen Challenge Heilbronn powered by Audi. This time, the athletes of the Olympic Distance opened the race at 08:45 am, until the starting shot was fired at 09:15 am for the pros of Challenge Half. First the male pros, 30 second after them the women started the 1.9 km swim in the river Neckar. Firsts out of water were Markus Rolli and Dutchwoman Sarissa de Vries. more
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Monday 18 Jun 2018
Strong bikers dominated the sixth edition of IRONMAN 70.3 Luxembourg. Thanks to a smart tactics, Swiss Manuel Kueng eventually celebrated his second win in Remich after 2015. As expected, French Romain Guillaume was at Kueng’s feet from the swim on. Once they embarked onto the bike course leading the field through the beautiful Mosel and wine region of Luxembourg, Guillaume and Kueng battled it out between themselves and the rest of the field. Only Marcus Herbst from Germany was able to stay the more
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Monday 18 Jun 2018
Belgium had a great day of firsts at the 2018 ITU Antwerp World Cup, with Jelle Geens claiming the first ever victory of an ITU race on home soil to much delight of the thousands of spectators who enjoyed a day of triathlon at its best. He was accompanied in the podium by Kiwi Tayler Reid and Canadian Tyler Mislawchuk. On the women’s race, the victory was for one really used to be on top of the podium on world cups: USA’s Summer Cook, who claimed her sixth victory of her career. Behind her in th more
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Monday 18 Jun 2018
Two converts from other sporting backgrounds scored breakthrough victories at the IRONMAN 70.3 Japan. Australian Lindsey Lawry, a former surf sport athlete who won a medal in his age group at the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship last year won a wire-to-wire victory in the elite men. Lawry was out water with fellow Australians Sam Douglas and veteran Luke Bell in 24:53 and opened a gap late on the bike with a 2:12:14 effort. more
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Friday 15 Jun 2018
The 4th edition of the Sparkassen CHALLENGE HEILBRONN powered by AUDI will take place with a few innovative changes. New courses, new time schedule, new faces – Race Director Kai Sauser and his team have great plans for the 1,800 triathletes from 36 nations that will be at the start line on 17th June 2018. The Athletes 2018 Numerous international athletes will be racing for the first time alongside familiar faces including reigning champion Daniela Sämmler and Dutchwoman Yvonne Van Vlerken, who more
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Friday 15 Jun 2018
For the second time, the IRONMAN 70.3 European Championship will be held in Denmark and the historic city of Elsinore. Home of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Elsinore plays host as athletes become an IRONMAN 70.3 European Champion. The swim course takes place right in front of the legendary Kronborg Castle, when the athletes swim 1.9 kilometers one loop course in the majestic harbor. After exiting the swim , athletes will enter the transitions zone more
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Friday 15 Jun 2018
It is one of the oldest cities in Europe and has a long and lasting tradition of cycling sports, so it was just about time that the Belgium city on Antwerp joined the ITU World Cup circuit with an astonishing event ready to take the stage this weekend. The race, with some of the greatest triathletes of the world lining up, will be the eighth stop of the season as we reach the halfway point of what has already been an incredible 2018 for our sport, and represents the biggest triathlon event in th more
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Thursday 14 Jun 2018
Triathlon comes to the tri-border region in Luxembourg's east side, Région Moselle and experience a race in the scenic Moselleregion of Luxembourg, located in the heart of Europe. 1.9 km Swim through the Moselle river being the romantic boarder between the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg and Germany. 90 km Bike along the wine yards where the different types of grapes for the delicious Luxembourgish wines grow and through the marvelous hilly countryside with its wonderful landscape. more
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Thursday 14 Jun 2018
The 2018 XTERRA Asia-Pacific Tour finale takes place this Sunday, June 17, in the shadows of the famous Mount Mayon Volcano of the Philippines, the iconic landmark of Legazpi in the province of Albay. XTERRA Albay was originally scheduled for March 4, but the active volcano with the symmetrical cone was erupting and disrupting the island of Luzon, forcing organizers to postpone the race and allow Mother Nature to take its course and allow the local government to address the needs of those who we more
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Thursday 14 Jun 2018
Situated near the city of Nagoya in the Aichi Prefecture, Japan’s fourth largest city, the race unfolds in the Chita Peninsula (included 3 cities) precinct surrounding the Centrair International Airport. The Centrair International Airport will act as the hub of the race course that will traverse Tokoname City and surrounding environs. more
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Monday 11 Jun 2018
A three-time IRONMAN world champion returning to the sport and a multi world champion stepping up—the Cairns Airport IRONMAN Asia-Pacific Championship had much in the way of anticipation. In the end, both pre-race superstars played second fiddle to a couple of unlikely New Zealanders who smashed race records on their way to victory—and automatic spots in October’s Holy Grail, the IRONMAN World Championship. more
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Monday 11 Jun 2018
Andy Dreitz and Pernille Thalund each took home a convincing victory in Saturday's Challenge Herning. After a non wetsuit swim the athletes had to conquer an unusual hot summer day, which delivered as well drama as excitement. For a while favourite Camilla Pedersen (DK) looked like a sure winner. The former elite swimmer came first out of the water after only 25:56 minutes, with two minutes down to fellow dane Pernille Thalund. But almost halfway through the bike course, Thalund took the lead an more
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Monday 11 Jun 2018
The "locals" showed up Sunday at IRONMAN Boulder and put on a show on what ended up being a hot, windy and all around very challenging day on a normally fast course. The men’s race had a small split in the swim that had Joe Gambles, Kevin Collington, and Justin Metzler with a gap on a chase group consisting of Peterson, Shearon, Long, and Chris Leiferman. By the rides end the heat, big winds, and fast riding of Chris Leiferman blew up the race and most riders ended up coming in one by one behind more
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Monday 11 Jun 2018
It was almost a one man show at the men's race at SKODA CHALLENGE GERAARDSBERGEN: Pieter Heemeryck from Belgium took the win and was in the lead from start to finish. The women’s race was dominated by Heather Wurtele from Canada. She was really looking forward to this race and now got in the footsteps of her husband Trevor who took the win last year. Right from the start it was clear that Heemeryck was eager to win. He immediately took the lead at the swim and never gave it away. In stead the ga more
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Monday 11 Jun 2018
It doesn’t happen too often that a pro woman finishes in the top 10 overall, but this weekend in Rapperswil-Jona, Daniela Ryf ate up the men’s pro field with a stunning performance at IRONMAN 70.3 Switzerland. She stormed out a start-to-finish-victory again, taking her fifth win here in a row. The 31-year-old IRONMAN star is maybe in the best shape ever. Ryf embarked on a impressive journey right from the get-go including fantastic splits on the bike and run. The three-time back-to-back IRONMAN more
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Monday 11 Jun 2018
Francois Carloni and Morgane Riou, both from France, captured the third-annual XTERRA Belgium off-road triathlon elite titles on a beautiful day at the Citadel of Namur on Saturday, June 9, 2018. It's the second XTERRA World Tour win for Carloni, who last won a major at XTERRA Greece in 2014. Carloni was the 20-24 age group XTERRA World Champion 10 years ago before turning pro, and was third in the final XTERRA European Tour elite standings last year. more
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