A couple weeks ago reported that Marino Vanhoenacker was injured and is thus an unlikely starter at Kona 2013 and today he announced that the injury forced him to take a few weeks off and focus on ...
The Weekend Box covers Ironman 70.3 races Philippines, Boulder, and Steelhead, Ironman UK, Frankfurt City Tri, XTERRA Mexico, USA Triathlon junior elite nationals and more.
Swissman champion Markus Stierli took the win at the 2013 isklar Norseman Xtreme Triathlon in 11:25:16. Norwegian Inger Liv Bjerkreim Nilsen grabbed the women's title on day that was described as ...
With the July 28, 2013 deadline now behind us we can look at the Pros who managed to capture their early Kona slots. 40 men and 28 women will have the monkey of their back, but for some an even ...
Ronnie Schildknecht wins 7 in a row at Ironman Switzerland, plus updates from Ironman Lake Placid, Challenge Vitoria, 70.3 Calgary, 5i50 Giant Eagle, the Norseman crew event and much more.
Ritchie Nicholls in his first long course appearance grabbed the win at the 2013 Alpe D'Huez triathlon and fellow Team TBB Pro Mary Beth Ellis defended her title at this unique mid week triathlon in ...
Marino Vanhoenacker is one of the favorites for the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii, but this year the Belgian überbiker and 3rd place finisher of 2011 might not even be at the start.
Featured here are Lake Stevens and Racine 70.3s, the ITU Mixed Relay World championship and why Boulder 5i50 race director Dave Christen banned a triathlete who cursed at a volunteer.
Anne Haug’s performance at the World Triathlon Hamburg made the massive German crowd happy and helped her extend the lead of this important draft legal triathlon series. Plus coach Darren Smith ...
Late in the run the Brownlee brothers pulled away from Javier Gomez and sprinted side-by-side to the finish with Jonathan Brownlee in the end getting the better of his older brother. Gomez hung on ...
The Boulder County District Attorney did not press charges against the driver in accident that injured triathlete Richie Cunningham; investigation indicated driver stopped to avoid a car, not vent ...
Dirk Bockel destroyed the competition at the DATEV Challenge Roth on the bike and then took the win in a superb fast 7:52:01. Carolina Steffen battled Yvonne Van Vlerken most of the day but got the ...
Featured here are 70.3 Vineman, ITU Cross Triathlon Worlds, 70.3 Muncie, Minneapolis LTF, Palamos World Cup, a Peter Henning nomination and a new Challenge event.
Eneko Llanos had an impressive sub-8 performance at the European Ironman Champs in Frankfurt while several other favorites faltered. Camilla Pedersen ran down Jodie Swallow in her first Ironman ...
In this issue of The Weekend Box we look at the 2013 Celtman Extreme Scottish Tri, Ironman 70.3 Haugesund, the return of The Man, XTERRA France and a new Challenge event in North America.
Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee made the brutal climbs of Kitzbühel look easy, completing the maximum 22.3 percent section on the bike and a similarly steep run in 55:24 with a 36 seconds margin ...
Jodie Stimpson joined Alistair Brownlee in giving the British a monopoly on gold medals on the fiendishly steep hills of the Kitzbühel WTS course; surprisingly, Stimpson had the bigger margin of ...
Top pro Richie Cunningham was injured on July 4 north of Boulder after he crashed his bike trying to avoid a pickup truck which he said purposely slammed on the brakes in front of him in an act of ...
The Challenge Family said its event licensee in Denmark, YWC Sports, breached a contract when it sold its company to Ironman, but the nature of the breach hasn't been disclosed.
Andreas Raelert posted a 5th-fastest-ever Ironman Austria finish of 7:59:51 to top runner-up Maik Twelsiek by 11:45; Erika Csomor won her second title in a women’s 10th-fastest-ever IM Austria time ...
In a new feature called The Weekend Box we now feature a variety of results and other interesting tidbits from the weekend. Covered here are races in Holten, Düsseldorf and Lubbock, plus the unique ...
About a month after testing positive at the 2013 Bilbao Triathlon, Virginia Berasatagui called a press conference today and confessed to having doped recently, and said she will thus forgo pursuing ...
Ironman announced today that it acquired privately held YWC Copenhagen, which organizes Danish triathlons; Ironman thus takes licensing rights of the Copenhagen and Aarhus events from Challenge.
French newspapers are reporting that a 30-year old British triathlete crashed during the bike segment of the 2013 Ironman France in Nice and died on the way to the hospital.
