News & Racing Yokohama calling strong Australian contingent as Olympic cycle begins The cream of Australia’s ITU triathletes and paratriathletes will converge on Yokohama this Saturday for the resumption of the World Triathlon Series and start of the World Paratriathlon Series in Japan’s second largest city. The event also herald’s the start of the road to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Ga By Shawn Smith • 5 min read
News & Racing Emma Jeffcoat sprints to impressive Chengdu World Cup victory Sydney’s graduating nurse Emma Jeffcoat stole the show in China yesterday to win her second World Cup win of the season in Chengdu’s ITU Triathlon World Cup. The two-day super sprint format comprising semi-finals on day one and a final on day two is racing over a 400-metre swim; a 10-kilometre bike By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing Laura Siddall Back To Back Wins, Marino Vanhoenacker Sets Record at Ironman Australia Great Britain’s Laura Siddall and Belgium’s Marino Vanhoenacker were the stars of a day of high drama and intense racing at IRONMAN Australia that saw course records broken and history made. Siddall went back to back at Port Macquarie and in defending her IRONMAN Australia crown she joined former mu By Shawn Smith • 4 min read
News & Racing Duffy Wins All 3 Legs in World Triathlon Series WTS Bermuda, Norway Fills Men’s Podium Flora Duffy won her home turf of Bermuda in year one of the International Triathlon Union (ITU) World Triathlon Bermuda. Duffy maintained easy leads in the swim, bike, and run. USA’s Kirstin Kasper stayed close behind Duffy during the bike, but only briefly. Duffy lost her early, and then continued By Shawn Smith • 4 min read
News & Racing Hanson, Hauschildt Win Ironman North American Championships – Three-Peat for Hanson On Saturday, USA’s Matt Hanson won Ironman’s North American Championships in The Woodlands, Texas for the second year in a row. He was also the 2015 winner. Aussie Melissa Hauschildt crossed the finish line in the women’s race far ahead of the rest of the pack. Hanson & Tutukin Closed Starykowic By Shawn Smith • 1 min read
News & Racing Challenge Roma – The First Big European Challenge Event In 2018 On April 15, 2018, will be Challenge Roma's second edition. After its debut in 2017, the Italian capital will be again protagonist of great international triathlon in a new location, the Rome Marina “Porto Turistico di Roma”, with new distances: 1.9 km swimming, 90 km bike, 21 km running. A mi By Shawn Smith • 3 min read
News & Racing Challenge Family Introduces A World Ranking For Pro-athletes Challenge has decided to expand the successful European Money Ranking in 2018 to a so-called Challenge World Ranking. This means that professional Athletes can earn points not only in European races but also in races outside of Europe. The earned points count up in a final ranking at the end of the By Shawn Smith • 1 min read
News & Racing Laura Siddall Looks To Go Back To Back at Ironman Australia The 2018 season has kicked off with a bang for Laura Siddall breaking through to pick up the Ironman New Zealand title in March, and she is looking to continue her winning form when she heads to Port Macquarie (6 May) to defend her Ironman Australia crown. Siddall, who represented England as a junio By Shawn Smith • 3 min read
News & Racing XTERRA New Zealand returns to Rotorua for 16th year this Saturday Sam Osborne and Jacqui Allen are back to defend their elite titles at the 16th annual XTERRA New Zealand Championship race at Lake Tikitapu in Rotorua on Saturday. For Osborne, a Rotorua native and the reigning XTERRA Asia-Pacific Tour Champion, it marks the start of another ambitious season of XTER By Shawn Smith • 5 min read
News & Racing Ironman Foundation and Challenged Athletes Foundation Team Up for Junior Seau Adaptive Surf Clinic in Oceanside The Ironman Foundation will hold its second service project of the 2018 season with an adaptive surf clinic that will include specialized sessions for youth, women and military/adults with physical challenges as part of the Junior Seau Foundation Adaptive Youth Surf Program presented by Challenged A By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing Javier Gomez and Five Time ITU World Champion To Race Ironman Cairns The focus of the sporting world will be on Cairns on 10 June with the announcement that five time ITU World Triathlon Champion, X-terra World Champion and Olympic silver medallist Javier Gomez will make his Ironman debut at the Cairns Airport Ironman Cairns Asia-Pacific Championship. Gomez, the curr By Shawn Smith • 3 min read
Researchers at Tufts University are experimenting with sensors attached to human teeth. Gear & Tech A Wearable RFID Fitness & Calorie Tracker that Mounts to Your Teeth Fitness and calorie monitoring technology is getting interesting. Researchers at the Tufts University Biomedical Engineering Department are experimenting with wearable trackers that mount to your teeth. The tiny monitors use Radio Frequency ID (RFID) technology to track calories, alcohol consumption By Shawn Smith • 1 min read
News & Racing Luke McKenzie Determined To Fulfil Childhood Dream at Ironman Australia On 18th February 1978, 15 people set out to complete a race in Hawai`i thought to be impossible – swimming, biking, and running 140.6 miles in a single day. Their dream created a community that believes anything is possible. Four decades later, hundreds of thousands of athletes fulfil their dreams a By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
Athletes on the run course during The Championship Challenge Triathlon on June 3, 2017 in Bratislava, Slovakia. News & Racing Challenge Launches Worldwide Campaign to Search for Inspirational Triathletes In a bid to champion age-group athletes, CHALLENGEFAMILY is proud to announce that it has launched a global search to find inspirational athletes with ambitions to compete at THECHAMPIONSHIP race. “Using the hashtags #ChallengeYourself and #JoinTheFamily, we want you to tell us why you ‘tri’ – By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
Shimano RD-RX805 and D-RX800 Gear & Tech Shimano Introduces Chain Stabilising Rear Derailleur for Road Bikes As road bike riding diversifies towards multiple road surfaces such as adventure and off-road riding Shimano introduces Ultegra RX, an off-shoot of Ultegra, with a rear clutch derailleur (RD-RX800/RX805) for mechanical and Di2 drivetrains. Riders have been pushing the limits of what a road bike is c By Shawn Smith • 1 min read
Shimano Ultegra R7000 Gear & Tech Shimano 105 R7000 Offers Race-inspired Performance for Greater Riding Styles Today’s road riders demand much more than pure on-the-rivet speed. They expect comfort, control and versatility from their bikes, and enjoyment and goal achievement to boot. 105 level riders expect the latest pro-level features but they also want to do more with their bike than racing and training. By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
Opinion Study Shows 76% of US Sports Sponsor Food Ads are for Junk Food Products – Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity Quick Summary: Researchers from the University of Connecticut’s (UConn) Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity found in a study that a whopping 76% of food ads from sports team and organization sponsorships in the USA featured junk food. 52.4% of beverage advertisements were for sugar-sweetened dri By Shawn Smith • 3 min read
Under Armour reveals data breach affecting 150 MILLION MyFitnessPal accounts News & Racing Under Armour Investigates MyFitnessPal App Data Security Breach Under Armour, maker of the MyFitnessPal app is investigating a late February data security breach that affected 150 million users of the app and website. MyFitnessPal is a free calorie counter app as well as a diet and fitness journal. Under Armour discovered the breach on Sunday, 25th March. The br By Shawn Smith • 1 min read
skeeze / Pixabay News & Racing Triathlete Julie Rosiek Accepts Anti-Doping Sanctions for Prescribed Drug – New Crackdowns May Be Coming Quick Summary: The US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has just announced that US triathlete Julie Rosiek has accepted a 2-year sanction for failing to secure a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) for a doctor-prescribed anabolic steroid. Without a TUE, this class of substances, and their metabolites are By Shawn Smith • 1 min read
Dr Mitch Anderson breaks the 24 hour outdoor road cycling record. 📷 koruptvision News & Racing Dr. Mitchell Anderson Breaks 24-Hour Outdoor Cycling World Record 42-year-old Mitchell “Mitch” Anderson of West Melbourne, Australia, broke the world record in 24-hour outdoor track cycling distance this past weekend. The cyclist and former professional triathlete clocked 894.35km at the Australia Automotive Research Centre in Wensleydale. Victoria. The average sp By Shawn Smith • 1 min read
News & Racing XTERRA Pan Am Tour weekend wrap-up from races in Argentina, Costa Rica Hot and windy days greeted competitors at both XTERRA Argentina and XTERRA Costa Rica over the weekend. In San Juan, Kieran McPherson and Fabiola Corona emerged victorious, and in Guanacaste, it was Rom Akerson and Kelli Montgomery. XTERRA Argentina Recap Kieran McPherson from New Zealand and By Shawn Smith • 9 min read
News & Racing St. Anthony’s Triathlon Announces 2018 Pro Athlete Start List St. Anthony’s Triathlon has announced the initial list of Pro athletes that will toe the line at this year’s race, to be held on April 29th, 2018. The 35th annual St. Anthony’s Triathlon will host approximately 3,000 athlete participants over the course of the weekend, and has also been selected by By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing ITU Moments of 2017: Triathlon Mixed Relay Becomes Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sport The International Triathlon Union (ITU) shares the moment a few top triathletes became the first people to hear the announcement that Mixed Relay will become a new sport in the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. The video includes Britain’s Brownlee brothers, Alistair and Jonathan, along with Bermuda’s Flo By Shawn Smith • 1 min read
News & Racing Three Time Ironman World Champ Mirinda Carfrae to Race in Cairns Three-time IRONMAN World Champion, and new mum of daughter Isabelle, Aussie Mirinda Carfrae has announced that IRONMAN Asia-Pacific Championship in Cairns (10 June 2018) will be her long-awaited return to IRONMAN racing. The pint-sized Australian powerhouse has released her 2018 race schedule and th By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
