News & Racing Daniela Ryf wins Seoul Round of Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series Switzerland's Daniela Ryf pulled off the sprint of her life to win in the final stretch of the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Seoul in Korea this afternoon, topping world number one Barbara Riveros Diaz of Chile and reigning world champion Emma Moffatt of Australia. By Karl Hayes • 3 min read
News & Racing Jan Frodeno Kicks Past Courtney Atkinson to win Round 2 of 2010 ITU World Championship Series in Seoul an Frodeno, the 2008 Beijing Olympic gold medallist, won a thrilling sprint to the finish over Australia's Courtney Atkinson at today's Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Seoul. Frodeno and Atkinson broke away from the field immediately after exciting the second transition an By Karl Hayes • 2 min read
News & Racing Lee Gruenfeld has some Advice for Lance Armstrong’s Ironman Triathlon Debut Yo, Lance: I'm Talking To YouDear Lance: I hear you're going to be doing Ironman. Neat. But like those women who write their hotel room numbers on their underwear and throw them at Tom Jones, there are triathlon coaches everywhere who are going to be writing their email addresses on wate By Karl Hayes • 4 min read
News & Racing World Class Field Gets Ready for Round Two of the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series in Seoul Round two of the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series heads to Seoul, Korea this Saturday, with over 100 of the world's fastest triathletes ready to tackle a brand-new venue. It will be the first time a World Championship event has taken place in the Korean capital and only th By Karl Hayes • 3 min read
News & Racing Australian Triathlon Squad Ready for Seoul Round of Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series Saturday's race in Seoul, Korea, the second of the 2010 Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series, marks the first time Australia has been able to field it's leading athletes in the same event since the first half of last year's international season. Beijing Olympic go By Karl Hayes • 2 min read
News & Racing St George Ironman 2010 Preview Join Greg Welch and Lisa Bentley for the 2010 Ford Ironman St. George ramp-up show. Learn about the new course, the expected weather, and preview the upcoming race! By Karl Hayes • 1 min read
News & Racing 2010 St Croix Ironman Triathlon 70.3 Race Report Nobody has ever called the Ironman 70.3 St. Croix easy and the the 22nd version of this classic redefined just how difficult this race can be. Race Director Tom Guthrie called the conditions "as hard as we've ever had … truly. We always have heat, wind, and hills; sometimes we have By Karl Hayes • 4 min read
News & Racing Australia’s Big Sexy Triathlete, Chris McDonald, 3rd at St George Ironman Triathlon Chris McDonald finsihed 3rd behind Austrian Michael Weiss and USA's Ben Hoffman. McDonald has not had the ideal start to the season after having to pull out of Ironman China and instead race the 70.3 due to back problems. McDonald won the recent Rage long course triathlon in Las Vegas but this By Karl Hayes • 2 min read
News & Racing Triathlon NSW Compressport 2010 Club Championships Full Results By Age Group Whilst we were all racing for club glory at the Triathlon NSW Compressport Club Championships we were still striving to achieve personal goals. Many were doing it for the first time and also facing the longest race of their short triathlon careers. Many of us were trying to beat By Karl Hayes • 2 min read
News & Racing Ironman Australia sells out in just 8 hours. In their first year of running the event World Triathlon Corporation (WTC )opened entries for the 2011 Port Macquarie Ironman exactly one year before the event at 12.00pm Saturday 1st May.With the field now restricted to just 1,000 competitors the event sold out within 8 hours leaving many potentia By Karl Hayes • 1 min read
News & Racing Triathlon NSW Club Championship Results and Analysis On a damp but still day the Warringah club from Sydneys northern beaches were able to hold off strong challenges from Hills and Balmoral to retain the Compressport Triathlon NSW Club Championship for a record 4th time. In it's last year at Port Stephens the event saw 900 athletes and 27 By Karl Hayes • 2 min read
News & Racing Lisa Marangon has Won the 2010 Busselton Half Ironman Triathlon – Plus Top 100 Womens Results As with the men's race Sydney's Lisa Marangon has shown the importance of a fast swim and bike split in the Busselton Half Ironman. Whilst her half marathon was slower than 2nd place Kate Bevilaqua and 4th placed Nicole Ward her fast swim and bike was enough to keep her 5 minutes ahead o By Karl Hayes • 1 min read
News & Racing Luke McKenzie Wins 2010 Busselton Half Ironman Triathlon – Plus Top 100 Male Results Luke McKenzie has put in fast swim and bike splits to take out the 2010 Busselton Half Ironman Triathlon. He held off Tim Reed and last years winner Tim Berkel to finish over four minutes ahead of these two. Both of the Tims went head to head for the entire race and finished within two […] By Karl Hayes • 1 min read
News & Racing Ford Ironman St. George has Australia’s Luke Bell & Chris McDonald up against some of the World’s Best Triathletes Australia's Chris McDonald and Luke Bell are going head to head with the Czech Republic's Petr Vabrousek and Portugal's Sergio Marques. While former Ironman champion, Australian Kate Major, is up against a host of other Ironman champions in New Zealand's Gina Ferguson, Canadi By Karl Hayes • 1 min read
News & Racing Craig Alexander and Mirinda Carfrae Take on a Star Studded Field in the St Croix Ironman 70.3 Triathlon Australia's Craig Alexander and Mirinda Carfrae will be in the US Virgin Islands this weekend competing in the St Croix Ironman 70.3 triathlon. Both are backing up from the St Anthony's Olympic distance triathlon in Florida last week. They are up against some tough competion. New Zealand By Karl Hayes • 5 min read
News & Racing Compressport NSW Club Champs Set to Start with Record Field Triathlon clubs across New South Wales are gearing up for the biggest event of the NSW age grouper's year: the Cub Championships. Although clearly targeted at age groupers this year's event has also attracted many professionals who are hoping to earn points for their clubs and give back By Karl Hayes • 2 min read
News & Racing Greg Bennett 2nd and Craig Alexander 3rd at 2010 St Anthony’s Olympic Distance Triathlon in Florida – Top Mens Results 10 Seconds separated Greg Bennett and Craig Alexander at the end but it wasn't enough for either to edge out eventual winner Cameron Dye. Dye out swum and out rode both Bennett and Alexander but was almost 2 minutes slower over the 10km run. By Karl Hayes • 1 min read
News & Racing New Zealand’s Terenzo Bozzone and Canada’s Samantha McGlone Win Memorial Hermann Ironman 70.3 Triathlon in Texas New Zealand's Terenzo Bozzone and Canada's Samantha McGlone both used outstanding half marathons to pull of their victories here in Galveston at the Memorial Hermann Ironman 70.3 Texas. By Karl Hayes • 3 min read
News & Racing Mirinda Carfrae 2nd at St Anthony’s Olympic Distance Triathlon in Florida – Top 15 Women’s Results USA'a Sarah Haskins edged out Australia's Mirinda Carfrae to win the St Anthony's triathlon in St Petersburg, Florida. Haskins recently finsihed 8th in the Sydney round of the Dextro Enegry Triathlon ITU World Championship. Carfrae is focusing on long distance currently and recent By Karl Hayes • 1 min read
News & Racing Jason Shortis Completes his 50th Official Ironman Triathlon with a 4th Place at the 2010 Spec Savers Ironman South Africa Jason Shortis completed his 50th Official Ironman triathlon with a 4th Place at the 2010 Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. In the end Shortis was 16 minutes off the eventual winner Raynard Tissink but along the way made some good inroads at the start of the marathon to look like he had something spe By Karl Hayes • 1 min read
News & Racing Australian Triathletes David Dellow and Clayton Fettell 4th & 5th at Ishigaki ITU World Cup in Japan David Dellow came in 4th with 42 sec gap, and Clayton Fettell was 5th with a 46 sec gap from the winner. Fettell managed a big escape from the pack on the fifth lap of the bike and started the run with a two-minute advantage on the field. Valentin Meshcheryakov claimed his first World Cup title in I By Karl Hayes • 1 min read
News & Racing Australian Triathlete Jason Shortis is Running Strong at the 26km Mark in the 2010 Ironman South Africa Australia's Jason Shortis exited T2 in 7th place, 15 minutes behind the race leader Mathais Hecht. However at the 18km mark Jason has taken almot four minutes of Hecht and is running strong. Shortis had a slow swim and came out of the water almost 8 minutes behind the leaders and lost a bit mo By Karl Hayes • 1 min read
News & Racing Ironman South Africa Press Conference With the PRO athletes in a confident mood the atmosphere at the Spec-Savers Ironman South Africa Pre-Race Press Conference was relaxed before the big day. The press conference was held at the Beach Hotel in Port Elizabeth on 23 April 2010 at 10:00 and was attended by PRO athletes, By Karl Hayes • 3 min read
News & Racing Australian Triathletes Craig Alexander and Greg Bennett go Head to Head in the 2010 St Anthony’s Olympic Distance Triathlon Craig Alexander and Greg Bennett go head to head over an Olympic distance triathlon in the St Anthony Triathlon in St Petersburg, Florida. Up for grabs is a share of the US$65,000 in prize money. In between them both and the money is Matthew Reed and Stuart Hayes from Great Britain who was third las By Karl Hayes • 1 min read
