Category: ITU
Olympic Team Member Brad Kahlefeldt to be Released from Hospital
Australian Olympic triathlete Brad Kahlefeldt will be discharged from a San Diego Hospital tomorrow after extensive tests have cleared him of tuberculosis. Doctors now believe Kahlefeldt is suffering from atypical Pneumonia and has been on antibiotics since being admitted to hospital after last Sunday’s ITU World Championship race in San Diego. Kahlefeldt underwent a lung [...]
Brad Kahlefeldt admitted to Hospital with suspected Tuberculosis
London bound Olympic triathlete Brad Kahlefeldt has been isolated in a San Diego hospital with symptoms that could be tuberculosis. Kahlefeldt complained to Australian Triathlon team staff after finishing the second ITU Triathlon World Championship race at Mission Beach yesterday. The 31-year Beijing Olympian, who has been pre-nominated for this year’s London Games, reported pains [...]
Helen Jenkins continues her brilliant start to the 2012 ITU Season in San Diego
Great Britain’s Helen Jenkins continued her brilliant start to 2012 with a dominating run to crush the field in San Diego, in a race that had a huge impact on London Olympic qualification. After an eight-women bike breakaway put 2 minutes and 30 seconds on the first chase group coming out of T2, Jenkins and [...]
Jonathan Brownlee Dominates in San Diego ITU after Seven Month Layoff
Great Britain’s Jonathan Brownlee kicked off his Olympic season with a dominant performance in San Diego, winning his second ITU World Triathlon Series event ahead of Switzerland’s Sven Riederer and South Africa’s Richard Murray. In the race that had a huge impact on the Olympic picture, Brownlee was part of a small break at the [...]
Australian Men’s Olympic Triathlon Team to be Decided in Madrid
The race for places on Australia’s Olympic men’s triathlon team will continue to go right down the wire after a frenetic second round of the Dextro Energy ITU World Triathlon Championship Series in San Diego today. Just one race remains inside the selection nomination period and that’s in Madrid on May 26 and 27 when [...]
Erin Densham hopes Sliver Lining ‘Enough’ to clinch Olympic Berth
Australia’s Erin Densham has finished second in the Dextro Energy ITU Triathlon in San Diego today in another bold selection bid for the 2012 London Olympics. Densham said immediately after the race that she “hopes that’s enough” after putting in another impressive performance following her win in opening ITU round in Sydney three weeks ago. [...]
Australian Triathlon Olympic Hopefuls going for Broke in San Diego
With Olympic places on the line, Australia’s elite triathletes will be going for broke when they line up in the second round of the Dextro Energy ITU World Championship Series at the birthplace of the sport, Mission Beach, San Diego this weekend. There will be plenty at stake in both the women’s race featuring the [...]
Triathlon Australian Appoints new Board Member in the Wake of Selection Dramas
Triathlon Australia has copped a bit of flak by some sections of the triathlon media recently over the delay in selecting the team for London 2012. Many in Australia’s triathlon community are unsure why a team has not yet been selected. Hopefully the release below from TA outlining the selection criteria will clear up a [...]
Triathlon Mixed Relay added to 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games
Triathlon Mixed Relay -ITU’s exciting mixed gender format – continued its rapid growth today, with the announcement by the Glasgow Commonwealth Games Committee that it would be included on their sports programme for 2014. The debut of the Mixed Relay comes four years earlier than anticipated after the discipline was voted onto the Commonwealth Games [...]
New Zealand Announces Olympic Games Triathlon Team for London 2012
It was delight all around as Triathlon New Zealand and the NZOC confirmed the New Zealand team for the London Olympic Games at a function in Auckland on Wednesday afternoon. Dave Currie made the announcement on behalf of the NZOC, confirming Andrea Hewitt (Christchurch), Kate McIlroy (Wellington), Nicky Samuels (Wanaka), Kris Gemmell (Palmerston North), Bevan [...]
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