Category: Race Preview
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 [...]
Challenge Roth Boasts Strong Pro Field
After quite a long break, Timo Bracht – one of the most successful German triathletes – will return to the “triathlon dream factory” in Roth. He has won seven Ironman races and finished fifth in the latest Hawaii event and says: “Apart from Ironman Hawaii in summer, my plan this year is to take part [...]
Ironman Australia 2012 Preview
After saying that he would not do an Ironman this year local pro triathlete Tim Berkel is starting this weekend’s Ironman Australia. Berkel’s entry means that the race now has four serious contenders. Paul Ambrose would have to be the bookmakers favourite based on his training this year, his Abu Dhabi ‘do or die’ performance, [...]
Final Round of the triseries at Port Stephens and end of Season Party
The Port Stephens triseries is shaping up to be the ‘End of Season’ party for NSW’s triathletes. With the NSW Club Champs taking place this weekend (a week before Ironman Australia) many people are not able to have their normal ‘post match and end of season’ blow out and party at Club Champs. Taking place [...]
How Good is Lance Armstrong for the Sport of Triathlon?
Lance Armstrong is about to tackle his second ironman 70.3 at Galverston, Texas. The Memorial Hermann Ironman 70.3 triathlon has a stacked field and there will be a lot of reputations on the line. No one should feel that they haven’t measured up if beaten by Lance today. He is a sporting legend and does not [...]
Batemans Bay Ultimate Triathlon and Sprint sees some World Class Athletes Racing
Batemans Bay Ultimate Triathlon weekend will see the worlds Number 3 ranked ITU Olympic Distance triathlete, USA’s Sarah Groff and Sweden’s current national champion Per Wangel along with Linnea Holmertz compete in the Sprint triathlon on the Saturday in preparation for the 2012 opening Sydney ITU race. Groff is based in Canberra currently where she [...]
Ironman Melbourne: The Women’s Race
Sundays Ironman Asia-Pacific Championship Melbourne offers arguably the most star studded field seen in Australia to date. 2010 Ironman World Champion Mirinda Carfrae will be favourite to take out the race, but everything will have to go to plan if she is to head off what is expected to be a very strong challenge from [...]
Mirinda Carfrae Attracted to Ironman Asia-Pacific Championship in Melbourne by the Unknown
MELBOURNE, Australia (March 20, 2012) – With an untested course, 2010 World Ironman Champion, Mirinda Carfrae, said one of the major attractions of the inaugural Ironman Asia-Pacific Championship in Melbourne is that it is a trip into the unknown. “You go into an inaugural event and the course is a total mystery and the pace [...]
Aviva Ironman 70.3 Singapore Triathlon 2012 Preview
Just a quick look at the pros down to race this weekend in at the Aviva Ironman 70.3 Singapore Triathlon 2012. Good luck to the Aussies and Kiwis racing over there. 2010 Ironman WA champion Kate Bevilaqua posted a second at the recent New Zealand 70.3 and should be one of the short odds favourites. Michelle [...]
Courtney Atkinson keen to show winning race form at OUT Oceania Championships in Devonport
March 8, 2012: One of Australia’s most celebrated male triathletes of the last 15 years, Courtney Atkinson, is the first to admit that he’s a little rusty when it comes to racing. But he is determined to turn his training form into winning race form when he lines up in the OUT Oceania Championships in [...]
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