News & Racing Gold Coast Half Ironman Cancelled Well it is official, USM today put out a press release stating: "Despite the best efforts of our team we have been unable to secure a venue for the 2011 Gold Coast Half, forcing the cancellation of the event. Our current agreement with Calypso Bay expired in 2010 and unfortunately they decided By Karl Hayes • 1 min read
News & Racing Quicksilver Reef Swim on Green Island – Report and Video – Cairns Adventure Festival The Cairns Airport Adventure Festival continued yesterday with the Quicksilver Reef Swim on Green Island. Over 200 participants boarded the ferry and headed to one of Australia's most stunning locations, The Great Barrier Reef to take part in the 1.5km or 3km Ocean swims this morning. With 24 By Karl Hayes • 1 min read
News & Racing Cairns Half Triathlon Race Preview The Cairns Half is being run concurrently with the full Challenge Cairns, also starting in the blue waters off Yorkeys Knob. Whilst the field is not stacked like the last two races of this distance in Australia Joey Lampe and Leon Griffin will make sure that this will be a great competition. These t By Karl Hayes • 6 min read
News & Racing Cairns Airport Challenge Cairns Women’s Race Preview Cairns is gearing up for the first Challenge event to take place on Australian soil, and the excitement is palpable. The women's race is shaping up to be a great battle, with two of Australia's most experienced iron distance athletes preparing to go head to head. Belinda Granger and Rebe By Karl Hayes • 3 min read
News & Racing 2011 Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series resumes in Madrid this weekend It's not often they enter a Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series race and don't make the podium but Beijing 2008 gold medallist Emma Snowsill and reigning ITU World Champion Emma Moffatt failed to reach it at home in Sydney. Snowsill had a rough swim leg and was out of c By Karl Hayes • 3 min read
News & Racing Cairns Airport Challenge Cairns Men’s Race Preview The withdrawal of ten time Ironman New Zealand winner Cameron Brown has taken one potential winner out of the running. However this has not made the race an easier one to win for anyone. The smart money is on a two horse race between Chris (Macca) McCormack and Tim Berkel. Based on recent race form By Karl Hayes • 5 min read
News & Racing World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) Names Andrew Messick Chief Executive Officer WTC Names Andrew Messick Chief Executive OfficerWorld Triathlon Corporation (WTC), owner and organiser of Ironman, Ironman 70.3, 5150, Iron Girl and IronKids branded-events, today announced that it has named Andrew Messick Chief Executive Officer. Messick joins WTC from AEG, where he has served as President of AEG Sports since By Karl Hayes • 2 min read
News & Racing 2011 TriGrandPrix European Championship The TriGrandPrix championship is now in its second year and consists of six races of various distances held around Europe. The races range from Olympic distance up to half Ironman distance. Age group winners win $460 Zone3 wetsuits and there is a $6,000+ prize fund for the overall top three men and By Karl Hayes • 2 min read
News & Racing Joey Lampe and Emily Donker win Coral Coast Triathlon at Port Douglas The Cairns Airport Adventure Festival kicked off on the warm, sunny shores of Port Douglas this morning, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Coral Coast Triathlon – a milestone no other race has achieved n Australia's rich triathlon history. The Olympic distance course was hot and fa By Karl Hayes • 4 min read
News & Racing Macca’s "I’m Here to Win" – A Triathlon Tell-All with Bite Love him or hate him, Chris McCormack’s book is as bold as the man himself—part memoir, part masterclass, and full of the showmanship that made him a triathlon legend. By Karl Hayes • 3 min read
News & Racing NSW triseries Triathlon Championship Results 2011 Elite Energy's new triathlon series in NSW offers diverse races for all levels, aiming to become an Australian triathlon icon, complementing Queensland and Victoria's established series. By Karl Hayes • 5 min read
News & Racing Luke Bell Third at Memorial Hermann Ironman Texas Australian Luke Bell put in a hard working performance to take third place at Ironman Texas on Saturday. The event was won by Spain's Eneko Llanos and Britain's Catriona Morrison. American Tim O'Donnell took second place in the mens event in his Ironman debut, and should be one to By Karl Hayes • 3 min read
News & Racing New Zealand’s Port of Tauranga Half Ironman Entry Entries to open for Port of Tauranga Half and Craigs Investment Partners Tinman triathlon from 9am tomorrow Tuesday 24th May, 2011. The Tinman has both standard (Olympic distance to everyone outside of NZ) and sprint distance triathlons. Entries start at 9am (NZ Time – UTC/GMT +12 hours) but o By Karl Hayes • 2 min read
News & Racing Triathlon NSW Club Championship Race Report and Results 2011 By Karl Hayes (I write this both as Trizone and a Balmoral member. I have tried to include as much general stuff as I can. So apologies in advance if it appears in any way to have too much Balmoral info). Please email in anything you would like me to add to this as I […] By Karl Hayes • 8 min read
News & Racing Ironman China and 70.3 China Cancelled It has been an interesting week for WTC. First we had the mad, somewhat undignified scramble for places at Ironman Australia, which succeeded in selling the event out, but left many feeling frustrated and disappointed (particularly if they worked in roles that did not allow them to spend an hour sit By Karl Hayes • 2 min read
News & Racing French Grand Prix Triathlon Circuit – Race 1 – Nice During our Australian winter, the triathlon calendar subsides, the weather goes nasty and most of us tend to migrate indoors to our wind trainers. On the other side of the world, the European season begins to take off, attracting more and more triathletes with every year. One of the premier competit By Karl Hayes • 4 min read
News & Racing Ironman Australia Entry – 100 Additional Spots Available 100 additional entries have been made available for the 2012 Ironman Australia. Upon the opening of Ironman Australia 2012 registrations today, 1450 general entries were successfully secured by competitors. In light of the unprecedented speed of entry uptake, Ironman Australia will be making an addi By Karl Hayes • 1 min read
News & Racing Ironman Australia 2012 Entry With the expected rush from people wanting to sign up to race in 2012 the servers have crashed. A 503 error occurs when the web server (running the Web site) is currently unable to handle the HTTP request due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server. For link to registration page read By Karl Hayes • 1 min read
News & Racing Preview: Triathlon NSW 2011 Club Championship Race On the 13th of January 1987 a Cronulla Triathlon club team comprising Tony Unicomb, Rick Pallister, Mark Pringle, Greg Welch, and John Holt won the first ever NSW Club Championship event. Over the years the race has been held at a number of locations; including Heffron Park, and various locations on By Karl Hayes • 5 min read
News & Racing Joey Lampe wins Byron Bay Triathlon 2011 Joey Lampe is a young guy with a big future. He came an impressive 5th at the 2010 Huskisson Long Course triathlon behind Craig Alexander, Pete Jacobs, Christian Kemp and Adam Holborrow. In October last year he came 9th at the Gold Coast half ironman with a good swim and bike but struggled on the [& By Karl Hayes • 7 min read
News & Racing Ironman Australia 2012 entries open on Wednesday General entry for the 2012 Ironman Australia event will open this Wednesday, May 11 at 12pm AEST. This years event sold out in just a few hours, and there is no reason to expect this year will be any different. So clear you diaries and make sure the kids are not planning on using the computer at lun By Karl Hayes • 1 min read
News & Racing Joe Gambles takes us through his Port Macquarie 70.3 Triathlon win Australian Joe Gambles has cemented himself as one of the world's leading long distance triathletes. He specialises in Ironman 70.3 but last year also slipped in a course record when he won Ironman Wisconsin in his first attempt at the distance. The 2011 Port Macquarie Ironman 70.3 was the fir By Karl Hayes • 2 min read
News & Racing Port Macquarie 70.3 Triathlon 2011 Photo Galleries A range of photos from the 2011 Port Macquarie 70.3. We can't photograph everyone so apologies if we missed anyone important. There is only so much work our photographer will do for clothes, food and shelter. Make sure you give Sophie plenty of thanks when you see her at the next race. By Karl Hayes • 1 min read
News & Racing Brendan Sexton breaks through with first ITU World Cup triathlon win Brendan Sexton ran away from the field late in the run to snatch his first career World Cup title in Monterrey, punctuating his impressive start to the 2011 season. Earlier this year, Australia's rising star was second and fourth against tough fields in Mooloolaba and Sydney respectively. Pete By Karl Hayes • 7 min read
