News & Racing Osborne and Poor take 16th annual XTERRA Germany Championship crowns It’s the second win in as many weeks for Osborne and Poor, who took the wins at XTERRA Poland last week, and it is also the fifth major title of the season for both. XTERRA World Tour managing director Dave Nicholas was on-site to take in all the action and brings us this report… There’s […] By Shawn Smith • 6 min read
News & Racing Felicity Sheedy-Ryan Wins Duathlon Gold at ITU World Championships in Penticton Western Australian Felicity Sheedy-Ryan has won Australia’s first gold medal of the ITU Multi-Sport World Championships in Penticton, Canada today after a brave and at times scary solo effort on the bike sealed her second Duathlon world crown. The “never-say-die” 32-year-old rode the tough, hilly, t By Shawn Smith • 3 min read
News & Racing Felicity Sheedy-Ryan and Benoit Nicolas win Duathlon World Championship Titles in Penticton Kicking off the week-long event of Multisport racing, the 2017 Penticton ITU Duathlon World Championships crowned the first set of world titles as Australia’s Felicity Sheedy-Ryan and France’s Benoit Nicolas claimed victory. While Sheedy-Ryan collected the women’s title and Nicolas seized the title By Shawn Smith • 4 min read
News & Racing British Triathlon Has Appointed Andy Salmon As CEO Andy Salmon has been announced as the new Chief Executive of British Triathlon, to take the sport forward to Tokyo 2020 and beyond. Salmon will take strategic lead of the National Governing Body in mid-November and will guide the sport through the Olympic and Paralympic cycle. His role will also emb By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing Ironman Announces First Full Distance Event in Estonia Ironman today announced the addition of the Ironman Tallinn triathlon. The inaugural race will take place on 4th August 2018. The new race will take place in Estonia’s capital of Tallinn, located at the Baltic sea. Considered one of the most beautiful and best preserved medieval cities of Europe, Ta By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing Ironman 70.3 World Championship Pro Start List for Chattanooga Announced Triathlon’s top talent will come together in Chattanooga, Tennessee for the 2017 Ironman 70.3 World Championship taking place on September 9 and 10. Boasting one of the most competitive professional fields in the sport, the event will make history in the Southeastern U.S. this September with the wom By Shawn Smith • 5 min read
News & Racing Luke Bell and Tim Van Berkel go head to head again Two of the biggest names in IRONMAN racing, aussies Luke Bell and Tim van Berkel are returning to IRONMAN 70.3 Sunshine Coast to headline the pro field and test themselves on the tough 2016 World Championships course. The veteran Bell is set to re-invigorate his racing season that stalled with an un By Shawn Smith • 3 min read
Gear & Tech Suunto Introduces Compact, Lightweight Spartan Trainer Wrist HR GPS Watch The Suunto Spartan family of sports watches grows today with the launch of Spartan Trainer Wrist HR, the slim and lightweight multisport GPS watch for active sports enthusiast. The Spartan Trainer is considerably smaller in size than its older siblings, yet delivers great, versatile training feature By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing Community-inspired “Small Batch” Collection launches with Cola Me-Happy Energy Gel Last fall, GU Energy Labs turned to its community of athletes to nominate and vote for the next great Energy Gel flavor. After the votes were tallied, GU’s innovation team hit the kitchen to bring the voter’s choice flavor to fruition. The company announced the launch of “Cola Me-Happy” Energy Gel, By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
Interviews Will Clarke: The Englishman with an appetite for winning Will Clarke is one of the UK’s most impressive triathletes, and he has a few things to say about incompetent referees, motivation and holidays in Greece. Trizone caught up with the British athlete. School starts Clarke’s journey towards triathlon “When I was sprinting at school, I started watching t By Shawn Smith • 8 min read
Interviews Nic Beveridge: Finding Strength and Powering to the Top Nic Beveridge, an Australian paratriathlete, reflects on his experience and how he had to accept and deal with his condition. By Shawn Smith • 10 min read
News & Racing Ironman 70.3: Tim Don and Jeanni Seymour win at Ironman 70.3 Boulder Tim Don and Jeanni Seymour both came from behind to run to victory at Ironman 70.3 Boulder last weekend. Here’s how the races played out. Men’s Race The men’s swim saw Aussie Jake Montgomery chasing Matt Chrabot, with Matt Franklin following close behind. Chrabot made it out of the water in the lead By Shawn Smith • 1 min read
Gear & Tech CeramicSpeed launches double 14-tooth Eagle Pulley Wheels Pulley wheels specifically made to fit the SRAM Eagle 12-speed groupset, now go under the name CeramicSpeed Eagle 14. The number 14 refers to a 14/14-tooth design in the pulleys. Part of the developing process has been to have Specialized Racing test two different versions of the Eagle Pulley Wheels By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing ITU: Gomez ends Mola’s winning streak with victory at Montreal ITU 2017 Javier Gomez Noya triumphed in Montreal in a fierce race and very windy conditions. Blummenfelt and Murray chased close behind to round out the podium. The swim was anyone’s race, and by the start of the bike leg it was destined to be a battle between the top seven riders, including Gomez, Blummenfe By Shawn Smith • 1 min read
News & Racing ITU: Australian Ashleigh Gentle edges out Flora Duffy to win in Montreal Aussie talent Ashleigh Gentle stormed to her first victory in a World Triathlon Series race in Montreal. Despite being desperately sick with the flu, Gentle powered past world champion Flora Duffy to take out the win. Being sick didn’t stop Aussie Gentle Ashleigh Gentle had been struggling with the By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing Super League Announces Corporate Mix and Expanding Upon Championship Format Fifty of the world’s leading triathletes, including 25 Olympians, will compete for round two of the Super League Triathlon crown on 23rd and 24th September 2017, in Jersey, UK. They will be joined by teams of corporates, including First Names Group, Ravenscroft Group, Santander Group and UBS AG, loo By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
ITU Media | Janso Schmidt News & Racing Flora Duffy may hold the aces but the Aussie women lead the chases Bermuda’s Commonwealth Games favourite Flora Duffy has taken the World Triathlon Series by storm in 2017 as she lines up chasing a fifth straight victory on the circuit when Montreal makes its WTS debut this weekend. Australia will field five of its top six women with only London Olympian Emma Jacks By Shawn Smith • 3 min read
Sunshine Coast Events board member Garth Prowd and Danielle Burns of Sunshine Coast Council at the launch of the Sunshine Coast Events Network (scene) 2014 program at the Innovation Centre, Sippy Downs Photo: Erle Levey / Sunshine Coast Daily News & Racing Garth Prowd OAM 1952 – 2017 Garth Prowd OAM, the man affectionately known as the’ Godfather’ of Australian triathlon, a pioneer of sport tourism in Queensland and passionate athletes advocate, has died after a tragic accident in Spain. It is with deep sorrow and sadness today that Garth’s family announce his death on Sunday Ju By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing Ironman: Nick Kastelein and Celine Schärer win Ironman Switzerland Aussie Nick Kastelein smashed through a fierce field to win Ironman Switzerland yesterday with the third-fastest time in the course’s history. Swiss Celine Schärer secured a huge margin to win the women’s field after placing fourth last year. Here are how the races played out. Men’s Race Aussie Alex By Shawn Smith • 3 min read
News & Racing ITU: Mario Mola edges out Australian Jake Birtwhistle to win in Edmonton Mario Mola kept his cool while Aussie Birtwhistle mistook the second-last lap for the final leg of the race, only to rejoin the event and make his way to silver. Here’s how the eventful race played out. Richard Varga dominated the swim, as usual, but Jonathan Brownlee and Ben Kanute were close behin By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing ITU: Flora Duffy continues her wining way with 4th consecutive win in Edmonton Flora Duffy is the world champion of everything, including being undefeated in the ITU World Triathlon Series this year thanks to her win at Edmonton today and clearly not showing any signs of slowing after her win in Leeds last month. Here’s how the Elite Women’s race played out. Taylor Knibb fight By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
News & Racing Gold to Katie Kelly and Emily Tapp as Aussies taste success in Edmonton Australia has tasted success at the ITU World Paratriathlon Series event in Edmonton today with Rio golden girl Katie Kelly and Commonwealth Games nominee Emily Tapp leading the way with gold medals. The small but select Australian contingent finished with two gold, one silver and one bronze with WA By Shawn Smith • 3 min read
Courtney Aktkinson running on Mount Meharry in Newman, Western Australia. Adventures Courtney Atkinson: Doing a lot more than Triathlon Courtney Atkinson was a force in triathlon but now he’s captivated by adventure. Trizone caught up with the Red Bull athlete after finishing his recent adventure; running seven peaks in seven days. We chatted about everything from running on a cliff’s edge to peeling leeches off his skin. “I’ve hung By Shawn Smith • 4 min read
Gear & Tech Final Surge’s New iOS App Sets a New Standard for Mobile Training Log Apps Today Final Surge has released their new 2nd generation iOS App that sets a new standard for mobile training log apps (Android coming in October 2017). The Final Surge App makes it so easy to track workouts that workouts actually get tracked… and the tracking contains the detailed data needed to opt By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
