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Kieran Doe won the 2008 Port of Tauranga Half Ironman and denied Cameron Brown his 9th title. In the women’s race Kate Bevilaqua narrowly beat out Joanna Lawn.

Falconhead Capital announced the acquisition of three San Diego-based companies, confirming the story which appeared on Slowtwitch.com's front page on the 19th of December. Slowtwitch engaged in a Q&A with David Moross, Falconhead chairman and CEO, earlier today.

The sale of Triathlete and Competitor Magazines, as well as Elite Racing, owner of many of North America's largest footraces, appears imminent. Both magazines are part of a blockbuster deal that places top caliber endurance events and media under the same ownership.

Massimo Cigana and Liz Blatchford are the winners of the 2007 edition of the Laguna Phuket Triathlon in Thailand.

The season endening triathlon World Cup turned out to be historic, as Hirokatsu Tayama became the first Japanese athlete to win a Triathlon World Cup and Nicola Spirig of Switzerland grabbed her first World cup title.

At the 2007 Ironman Western Australia, Patrick Vernay was on course to break 8 hours and Charlotte Paul smashed the old course record.

We have followed the 2007 Ironman World Championships via the internet on race day, discussed it feverishly in the forum and checked out all kinds of websites and magazines since. Now we'll get to see the NBC coverage on Saturday.

Several people had thrown around the idea of a Triathlon specific festival / trade show, but to this day this has not really happened. It now appears that Trifest 2008 in Tucson, Arizona will step up to the plate.

XTERRA just announced their 2008 America Tour schedule.

Jonas Colting won the 2007 Ultraman Triathlon World Championships, and Shanna Armstrong earned her 4th title of this 6.2 mile swim, 261.4 mile bike and 52.4 mile run event. Top 5 results.

Bryan Rhodes and Bjorn Andersson announced that they would hold their first Power Camp for triathletes in Taupo, New Zealand.

Hunter Kemper combined a fast bike split and a great second run to secure his win, while Julie Ertel ran away from the competition during the second run.

Andy Potts (USA) outsprinted Oscar Galindez in the last few hundred yards to earn his first World Championship title and in the women’s race Mirinda Carfrae (AUS) outran her competition en route to her big win.

3 big triathlon events this weekend will unofficially close out the 2007 North American triathlon season. Here is what is coming.

Get your travel planner ready, USA Triathlon has announced their 2008 National Championship schedule.

The mens and womens races played out in similar fashion, with strong run performances coming out of a well organized breakaway that gained massive time on a temperate but windy day down in Mexico.

A very competitive international field raced the 2007 Ford Ironman Florida triathlon, but in the end 2 Germans were crowned Ironman champions.

Jordan Rapp, Slowtwitch tech whiz on weekdays, long distance tri whiz on weekends, conquered the five specialties (swim, bike, run, nutrition, navigation) to win the Soma Triathlon in 4:01:46.

Stoltz outduels Marceau, it's Dibens wire to wire, at the 2007 XTERRA World Championships in Maui, Hawaii

On Sunday the best off road triathletes in the world will meet in Maui to fight for the XTERRA World Champion title and about $125,000 in prize money. Here is a preview.

Results from the 2007 McDonald's ITU Duathlon World Championships

Two weeks ago long distance runner Kerstin Metzler-Mennenga (LIE) became a national hero after running 2:42:21 in the Berlin marathon. But all was not as good as it seemed.

Greg Bennett won the US Open Triathlon and snagged the $300,000 series bonus. In the women's race Sarah Haskins proved to be the strongest.

Racing as an age grouper in 2006, Chrissie Wellington (GBR) came to Kona as a Pro and grabbed the 2007 Word Champion title.

Chris "Macca" McCormack finally won the race that had eluded him so long and here is how it unfolded.