Category: Challenge Series
Challenge Family Terminates Challenge Cairns and Australian Contract with USM Events
(March 13, 2012) – Challenge Family has terminated its agreement with USM Events to deliver Challenge Cairns following breach of contract by USM Events. The termination follows the purchase of USM Events by World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), a US-based organisation that operates the Ironman brand. Owned by a private equity investment firm specialising in leveraged [...]
Challenge Family announce partnership with ETU and will Host the Long Distance Triathlon European Championships in 2012
ROTH, Germany (February 22, 2012) – The Challenge Family global series of long distance triathlons today announced a partnership with the European Triathlon Union (ETU) that will see Challenge Kraichgau and Challenge Roth host the Long Distance Triathlon European Championships in 2012. Challenge Kraichgau (10 June 2012) is Europe’s largest half iron distance event and [...]
Challenge Wanaka offers $80,000 in Prize Money plus Age Group Champs go to Roth
LAKE WANAKA, New Zealand (February 20, 2012) – Challenge Wanaka will offer New Zealand’s richest prize purse for both professional and age group athletes in 2013. While the world’s top elite athletes battle it out for New Zealand’s largest and deepest prize purse (NZ$80,000 down to 10th place), age group athletes also enjoy a strong [...]
Challenge Wanaka in the Athletes Words
The race has been run, and won. Trizone caught up with some of the top athletes post race to get the inside story on the challenge in Wanaka. Winner of the men’s event Aaron Farlow was very happy to have to come away with a good result after what he felt was a pretty poor [...]
Aaron Farlow and Gina Crawford win Challenge Wanaka. Honours Even for Australia and New Zealand
Australia’s Aaron Farlow came through a strong field to win the sixth edition of the long-course Challenge Wanaka triathlon on Saturday. Farlow broke the tape in 8:41:53, 10 minutes ahead of defending champion Jamie Whyte of Auckland with Aucklander Kieran Doe another six minutes behind in third. Farlow, a rising Canberra-based professional, took his first [...]
Australia versus New Zealand at the Challenge Wanaka Triathlon
Next weekend will see a small band of Australian’s travel across the ditch to try and burgle the Challenge Wanaka Triathlon in one of the first iron distance races of 2012. This will be no easy task with a talented group of Kiwi’s determined to prove themselves on home soil over a notoriously tough course, where the [...]
Australian Michelle Mitchell wins Challenge Barcelona
After finishing second at Challenge Cairns in June this year Michelle Mitchell has gone one better and won Challenge Barcelona in 9:15. The race could have been anybody’s in the swim and bike but it was Mitchell who proved the strongest runner on the day. Erika Csomor couldn’t respond to Mitchell’s attack in the last 10km that saw Mitchell cross the line in 9:15:00, 3:37 minutes ahead of Csomor.
Aaron Farlow Third at Challenge Henley-on-Thames
Aaron Farlow has continued his UK adventure, which saw him take out Ironman UK in August with a third place at the tough Challenge Henley course. Petr Vabrousek (CZE) and Yvette Grice (GBR) took out the inaugural titles at the weekend. The men’s race started off looking like the battle was going to be between Aaron Farlow (AUS) and Stephen Bayliss (GBR), who was first out of the water, with Lothar Leder (GER) retiring early on the bike leg. But with only 20k to go there were just two minutes separating the top six men.
Ironman UK winner & Australian Aaron Farlow to race Challenge Henley-on-Thames this Weekend
The inaugural Challenge Henley-on-Thames is shaping up to be an epic battle between Britain and Germany in the iron distance triathlon arena with Australian Aaron Farlow hoping to upset both. Farlow finished second at Ironman Wales last weekend so will have his work cut out but he is hoping for a podium.
Tim Berkel and Rebekah Keat win 2011 KMD Challenge Copenhagen Triathlon
The final 8 kilometres on the run was shoulder to shoulder as defending champion Tim Berkel from Australia and home town favorite Jimmy Johnsen of Denmark battled it out for a close and very exciting finish. The women’s race was a dominant performance as last year’s winner Rebekah Keat from Australia hammered the course like it was 2010 and finished off with a 3:05:02 marathon to reclaim her title with a blistering 8:52:42 finish.
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