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Ironman Cairns and 70.3 Cairns Pro Start Lists

Ironman Cairns and 70.3 Cairns Pro Start Lists

The official start lists from Ironman Cairns and Ironman 70.3 Cairns have been released.We will update this over the next few days. Some good fields on paper. Any one of four or five guys could take out the Ironman with four obvious women in the running. We will see Michelle Wu and Liz Blatchford make [...]

Brad Kahlefeldt and Liz Blatchford take out the professional wins at Ironman 70.3 Busselton 2013

Brad Kahlefeldt and Liz Blatchford take out the professional wins at Ironman 70.3 Busselton 2013

After a week of terrible weather, race day put up a perfect day for racing and fast times to boot. Although the morning was fresh, the ocean was calm unlike the previous days where there were people surfing out there. With such a star-studded field in both the male and female pro fields, the race [...]

Global Rotation for Ironman 70.3 World Championship Announced

Global Rotation for Ironman 70.3 World Championship Announced

Henderson, Nevada to host IRONMAN 70.3 Silverman for next five years TAMPA, Fla. (May 7, 2013) – IRONMAN today announced that, starting in 2014, the IRONMAN® 70.3® World Championship triathlon will rotate globally among different regions on an annual basis. Details on the global rotation process will be forthcoming. “Having the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship [...]

Mitch Robins on comeback trail with a 5th at Ironman 70.3 New Orleans

Mitch Robins on comeback trail with a 5th at Ironman 70.3 New Orleans

As we have covered before, this time last year Mitch Robins thought he would never run again. Even back in Australia after numerous mirco surgery procedures he was still coming to grips with the possibility that a university degree he was completing may become useful sooner than he thought. Fast forward 12 months and Mitch [...]

Tim Berkel and Mitch Robins racing Ironman 70.3 New Orleans this weekend

Tim Berkel and Mitch Robins racing Ironman 70.3 New Orleans this weekend

Australian’s Tim Berkel and Mitch Robins are heading to New Orleans this weekend to have their second 70.3 hitout in the USA this season. Berkel finished second behind Australia Richie Cunningham at the Texas 70.3 two weeks ago. Usually one of the fastest runners in most fields, Berkel was out run by an inform Cunningham [...]

Happy days for Richie Cunningham at Ironman 70.3 Texas

Happy days for Richie Cunningham at Ironman 70.3 Texas

Richie Cunningham, Tim Berkel and Chris McDonald made it a 1,2,3 for Australia today at the Memorial Hermann Ironman 70.3 Texas. In addition Mitch Robins was 6th overall as he hits the USA for take two after a horror accident derailed his campaign this time last year when he was in the form of his [...]

Ironman 70.3 Sunshine Coast Sells Out

Ironman 70.3 Sunshine Coast Sells Out

SUNSHINE COAST, (March 07, 2013) – It took less than two hours for entries into the inaugural IRONMANÒ 70.3 Sunshine Coast to sell out this morning after opening online, creating history as the first IRONMAN 70.3 worldwide to do so. The race on Sunday 15 September, 2013 will be another signature triathlon event for the [...]

Balance key for Graham O’Grady in Ironman 70.3 Auckland triathlon

Balance key for Graham O’Grady in Ironman 70.3 Auckland triathlon

Amid a stellar international field of world class stars, a 30-year-old from Kinloch is planning to make his mark in Sunday’s inaugural Ironman 70.3 Auckland triathlon. Graham O’Grady believes his stars are aligned for the first time in his three decades on the planet, which is the key to him starting to deliver on his [...]

Australians on the charge for Ironman 70.3 Auckland triathlon

Australians on the charge for Ironman 70.3 Auckland triathlon

Press Release: The Aussies are coming in force, with a bevy of victories at all levels around the globe, to pose a serious challenge to the Kiwis for the inaugural Ironman 70.3 Auckland triathlon. The new race on Sunday 20 January is the official Asia Pacific Championship, carrying a professional prize purse of approximately NZ$90,000 [...]

Chris McCormack and Melissa Hauschildt make it an Australian Triathlon Double at Ironman 70.3 Laguna Phuket

Chris McCormack and Melissa Hauschildt make it an Australian Triathlon Double at Ironman 70.3 Laguna Phuket

Triathlon legend Chris McCormack of Australia shrugged off the disappointment of his Laguna Phuket Triathlon (LPT) debut last weekend with a gritty performance to win the final Ironman 70.3 Laguna Phuket. It was a transformed “Macca” who held off the challenge of last weekend’s winner Ruedi Wild of Switzerland – almost 10 years his junior [...]