Timothy Carlson rates the men’s and women’s elite fields at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Chattanooga.

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Before the race has even begun, the 2017 Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Chattanooga, TN is already a watershed moment in the history of Ironman racing. For the first time, men and women will compete on different days. Totally separate races have long been a fixture on the draft-legal ITU elite circuit, but never before has Ironman split the field at a world championship race.

The lovable, maddening force of nature that was Les McDonald, the father of Olympic triathlon, has died at 84.

High winds and rain made for very tough conditions for the 148 starting teams at the 2017 ÖTILLÖ but a course record was broken anyhow.

Gillian Backhouse dominated the women’s field; Norwegian Gustav Iden won his first World Cup at Karlovy Vary.

Danes Thomas Strange and Camilla Pedersen won the elite titles at the half distance Challenge Fredericia.

Emma Pooley won her 4th Zofingen and Maxim Kuzmin became the first Russian to win the classic long course duathlon.

Steger edges Molinari by 1 minute; Siddall bests Sämmler by 3:57 at Challenge Kaiserwinkl-Walchsee.

Olympic silver medalist Fernandes overcame a large deficit with sizzling run; Chevrot ran away to win Cascais 70.3.

ITU veteran Anne Haug ran down Lucy Charles and James Cunnama ran away for the win at Lanzarote 70.3.

On July 29 at Edmonton, Taylor Knibb of the U.S. became the youngest woman to podium at a WTS race.

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Brazilian Wagner Araujo is well known for his amazing photography and passionate attention to detail and he selected his favorite images from the 2017 ITU World Championships in Penticton, Canada.

Gino Bartali, two-time winner of the Tour de France, helped save the lives of Jewish refugees during WWII by ferrying documents hidden in his bicycle and by sheltering a Jewish family in an apartment he owned. This past May, the new Israeli professional cycling team, commemorated Bartali during the 100th anniversary of the Giro d’Italia with a special ride tracing his war-time document smuggling routes.

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Sarah Piampiano of the U.S. and Domenico Passuello of Italy won Ironman 70.3 Qujing.

Frederik Van Lierde edged Andi Bocherer by 3:24 and Jocelyn McCauley topped Celine Schaerer by 2:00 at Vichy 70.3.

Lionel Sanders and Sarah Crowley won the ITU Multisport Festival LD Worlds in Penticton.