News & Racing ITU: Australia Wins Gold in Edmonton’s Triathlon Mixed Relay Triathlon’s man-of-the-moment Jake Birtwhistle, winner of a brilliant bronze in yesterday’s World Triathlon Series round in the individual sprint race, anchored the team to a stunning victory over the USA with New Zealand an eye-catching third. Australia tweaked its relay order with the in-form Ashl By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing Ironman Announces Content Partnership with Facebook for Global Distribution of Live Programming IRONMAN has announced a partnership with Facebook for unprecedented live coverage of the 2018 IRONMAN season. Available globally to fans on Facebook, the coverage debuts on Sunday, June 24 at IRONMAN France and spans a total of 16 races across 3 continents. This includes extensive coverage of the 20 By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing Ash Gentle and Jake Birtwhistle Lead Medal charge for Aussies in Edmonton Rio Olympian Ashleigh Gentle and a man with his eyes on Tokyo 2020 Jake Birtwhistle have returned to World Triathlon Series medal podium in style in Edmonton today. Earlier today there was further success for the Australian paratriathletes with Jonathan Goerlach winning gold in the PT Vision Impaire By Shawn Smith • 5 min read
News & Racing All Eyes Turn to Challenge Asia-Pacific Championship in Taiwan Following the success of THECHAMPIONSHIP 2018 in Samorin Slovakia, CHALLENGEFAMILY’s championship focus now shifts to Asia for the conduct of the Challenge Family Asia Pacific Championship, to be held in Taitung, Taiwan on November 18, 2018. The event, officially known as the Triathlon Middle Distan By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing Who’s Who on the 2018 Challenge Roth Start list? Challenge Roth is one of more popular full Ironman distance triathlons of the year, and the men’s and women’s pro races are coming up on Sunday in Germany’s time zone (UTC+2). Will this be a boring triathlon with expected winners leading by more than five minutes? Anything Can Happen on Full-Distanc By Shawn Smith • 3 min read
News & Racing Major League Triathlon Adds 3rd International Team Major League Triathlon, the first and only professional triathlon league in North America, has announced a 9th team (3rd International franchise) for the 2018 season. For the first time in the league’s history, a National team from Mexico will participate in MLT. The new franchise, dubbed, Guardiane By Shawn Smith • 1 min read
Gear & Tech The Sufferfest Releases a New Range of Indoor and Outdoor Plans to Cover Just About Anyone The Sufferfest, a comprehensive training app for cyclists and triathletes, announced the release of 67 new training plans on TrainingPeaks, creating a library of over 100 free plans for a novice, intermediate, and advanced endurance athletes. The plans incorporate indoor sessions from The Sufferfest By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing Rudy Project Launches Project Podium for Age Group Athletes Rudy Project North America, the exclusive distributor of Italian-made endurance sports gear, and the most worn helmet at Kona 7 times in a row is launching Project Podium, an initiative that rewards North America’s fastest age group triathletes with award-winning performance Rudy Project eyewear and By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing Taiwan added to XTERRA World Tour on 29-30 September at Kenting National Park XTERRA World Tour today announced the inaugural XTERRA Taiwan off-road triathlon and accompanying sports festival to be held September 29-30, 2018 at Kenting National Park. Events include an XTERRA championship distance event, an “Xticer” beginner distance off-road triathlon, 5, 10 and 21-kilometre By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing Drama and excitement at Challenge Denmark Andreas Dreitz and Pernille Thalund each took home a convincing victory in Saturday's Challenge Herning. After a non-wetsuit swim the athletes had to conquer an unusually hot summer day, which delivered as well drama as excitement. For a while favourite, Camilla Pedersen (DK) looked like a sur By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing Mark Allen is Final Surge’s New Partner, Spokesperson, and Advisor for Triathlon Mark Allen, 6-time IRONMAN® Triathlon World Champion and “The Greatest Endurance Athlete of All Time” according to ESPN, has teamed up with FinalSurge, the Best Online Training Log according to Triathlete magazine’s June 2018 Issue, to produce a special edition “Mark Allen Coaching” branded training By Shawn Smith • 1 min read
News & Racing Rio Olympian Ryan Bailie moves to 6th on the WTS World Rankings It was a case of survival of the fittest in yesterday’s energy-sapping World Triathlon Series Leeds round with Australia’s Rio Olympian, "Mr Consistent" Ryan Bailie the best of the Aussies, moving up the ITU WTS World Rankings to sixth after his 10th place finish. His Olympic teammate Aa By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing Pieter Heemeryck and Heather Wurtele Take the Win at Iconic Challenge Geraardsbergen It was almost a one-man show at the men's race at Challenge Geraardsbergen as Pieter Heemeryck from Belgium took the win and was in the lead from start to finish. The women’s race was dominated by Heather Wurtele from Canada. She was really looking forward to this race and now got in the foots By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing Ironman Asia-Pacific Championship: Plain and Simple, Kiwi’s Dominated The 2018 Cairns Airport IRONMAN Asia-Pacific Championship Cairns will long be remembered as the day that Kiwi multisport great Braden Currie, IRONMAN newbie Teresa Adam and triathlon legend Javier Gomez turned up the heat in Tropical North Queensland. The result was spectacular racing that saw four By Shawn Smith • 5 min read
News & Racing Ironman 70.3 Cairns: Simon Hearn and Laura Armstrong take the win The Sunshine Coast’s Simon Hearn and Melbourne’s Laura Armstrong took the honours at IRONMAN 70.3 Cairns and their stunning performances earned them the reward of being the first competitors to be able to put their feet up, chill out and enjoy the remainder of the stunning racing unfolding at the Ca By Shawn Smith • 3 min read
How To How to Choose the Right Bike Based on Your Physicality and Avoid Injury Learn how to choose the right bike based on your physicality and avoid injury with these top tips. The first step in preventing cycling injuries is to set your bike up correctly so as to minimise overloading any one part of your body. While awareness of proper setup has improved along with the explo By Shawn Smith • 3 min read
Gear & Tech A New Workout to Build Muscular Endurance from The Sufferfest The Sufferfest, a comprehensive training app for cyclists and triathletes, today announced the release of their latest endurance workout, G.O.A.T. Adding to their library of over 50 structured interval workouts designed by elite coaches, this session features officially-licensed footage of the Swiss By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing We Are Triathletes Documentary Wins Award in Accolade Global Film Competition We Are Triathletes, a feature-length documentary on the sport of triathlon, has won a prestigious Award of Excellence from The Accolade Global Film Competition. The award was given for its exceptional storyline featuring 6 long distance triathletes including 3-time Ironman World Champion and 2014 Ch By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
Gear & Tech The New Suunto 9 GPS Watch Provides Amazing Battery Life Suunto announces today the new Suunto 9 – a multisport GPS watch designed for athletes who demand the best from their sports watch. Suunto 9 delivers an amazing battery life – up to 120 hours with GPS and an intelligent battery life management system with smart reminders to ensure your watch will la By Shawn Smith • 3 min read
News & Racing Ironman Boulder And Ironman 70.3 Boulder Extended Through 2020 IRONMAN, in partnership with the City of Boulder and the Boulder Convention and Visitors Bureau, have agreed to extend their partnership with the continuation of the IRONMAN Boulder and IRONMAN 70.3 Boulder triathlons through 2020. “Boulder is a city that provides a tremendous amount of support to t By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing Dylan McNeice and Lisa Roberts are Chasing the Challenge Family World Bonus After a busy weekend at THECHAMPIONSHIP in Slovakia and CHALLENGEVENICE in Italy, both qualifying races for the CHALLENGEFAMILY World Bonus, Pablo Gonzales Dapena from Spain is still in the lead. But Dylan McNeice did a great job by finishing third in Venice and has decreased the gap to only 100 poi By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing Ironman To Remain In Cairns For Five More Years Ironman Chief Operating Officer Shane Facteau has welcomed the announcement by the Queensland Government, and the Cairns Regional Council, that the iconic IRONMAN event will remain in Cairns for another five years. Mr Facteau said he was delighted to also confirm the extension of the partnership agr By Shawn Smith • 3 min read
News & Racing Aussies Just Short of Mixed Relay Podium after Aaron’s Royle run Despite the fastest leg of the day by Olympian Aaron Royle, Australia still fell agonisingly short of a podium finish in today’s opening race of the World Triathlon Mixed Relay Series in Nottingham earlier today. The reigning ITU World and Commonwealth Games champions over the 4 x (300m swim; 7 kilo By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
Interviews Ironman Cairns: Kate Phillips’s Ironman Debut A Celebration Of The Possible Every athlete has their own journey to the start line of an IRONMAN but there are very few who have endured so much and triumphed so graciously, as Brisbane’s Kate Phillips. When Kate makes her IRONMAN debut at the Cairns Airport IRONMAN Cairns Asia Pacific Championship (10 June) she will not only t By Shawn Smith • 6 min read
