Challenge Roth had about 6,000 volunteers this year and these fans are fully involved. The Challenge family thanks the volunteers with a big shindig called Helferfest.
by Herbert Krabel, July 21, 2015
Ben True is America’s top 5k road runner with a 13:22 PR and is a strong 5,000-meter Olympic candidate. Sarah True’s husband talks about sport, drug testing, and fair play.
ÖtillÖ started the SwimRun movement, and now the Rockman event in Norway draws inspiration from the Norseman Extreme Triathlon.
Jackson Dovey came to Ironman Texas with high hopes but they quickly were deflated, and he then shifted his focus to Coeur D’Alene where he grabbed the golden ticket.
Here are some stunning impressions by Jakob Edholm from the 2015 Engadin SwimRun event in the Swiss Alps with 53k of trail running and open water swimming
We collected several slow motion bike studies of top females at the 2015 Datev Challenge Roth, and here is your chance to view them.
When I started cycling frame builders did not make frames to destroy them. Today they do. Your frame has a lot of dead cousins or, if not, it should.
An Ironman in Merry Olde England, an XTERRA in the Rocky Mountains, a 70.3 hosted in Wisconsin and a Big Apple Olympic distance.
Ronnie Schildknecht won a record 8th Ironman Switzerland title with a come-from-behind marathon and Beth Gerdes passed Mary Beth Ellis on the run to win Zurich.
Vicky Holland pushed Gwen Jorgensen harder than any time during her unbeaten streak, but the American surged to a 5-seconds margin for her 11th straight WTS victory.
With the Brownlee brothers taking the weekend off, Vincent Luis of France out-dueled defending world champion Javier Gomez of Spain to win the sprint distance WTS Hamburg.
Diego Paredes and Brooke Brown won the 2015 Triathlon Vitoria-Gasteiz long course event and here are images from that stunning area in Spain.
The Midwesterner and former wrestler is a strong contender in half Ironman distance events and with coach Michael Lovato has set his sights high.
Felt has compelling models at the top (IA) and at entry level (B Series). It just announced a new IA that slots nicely in between.
Two frames pop out of the same mold. One is twice as expensive as the other. What justifies the big price variance? Is it all just marketing?
Callum Millward talks with Angela Naeth about Texas, Kona, equality, feuds, triathlon couples and more on the second Cupcakes with Cal episode of 2015.
Team USA earned a silver medal at the 2015 PanAm Games triathlon, and here is a video with The Triathlon Squad member Eric Lagerstrom during the days surrounding the race.
Our man Karsten Täschner was also on the ground at the 2015 Challenge Roth, and here are some pictures he captured.
Here are a few videos that show how plentiful and passionate the fans are at this annual long distance gem. Travel with us across the famed Solarer Berg and more.
German Nils Frommhold earned the top of the podium at Challenge Roth with a solid day and a superb 4:09:30 bike split. Here is a closer look at his Canyon prototype bike.
A beautiful sunny day in Southern Germany saw about 250,000 fans on the course cheering on thousands of athletes at Challenge Roth.
Orbea launched a new Ordu OMP bike at Challenge Roth and Andrew Starykowicz stormed to a new course record aboard it.
Offered for your reading pleasure, the Weekend Box presents bravura Pan American Games triathlons from Canada, an XTERRA from Sweden and a California wine country 70.3.
Nils Frommhold pulled away on the bike with a 4:09:30 and won Challenge Roth with a 7:51:28. Yvonne Van Vlerken’s 4:47:43 bike split helped her grab the women’s title.
The order of the day was checking-in the bikes into T1 for Challenge Roth and we have great images of hot bikes, fast athletes and various oddities.
