Jorgensen storms to victory at WTS Leeds
The home crowd could only stand and stare today as the 30-year-old from Wisconsin hunted down her fellow ITU athlete prey on the final 10km, to take her 17th WTS victory. The Brit team, which…
WTS Leeds: Elite women’s quotes
FLORA DUFFY, 2ND (BERMUDA) Advertisement ON… RACING HARD It’s always my tactic to race hard from the start and try and hit the podium. When I came off the bike with a 1:45min lead over…
Ali Brownlee triumphs at WTS Leeds
The Yorkshire setting. A buoyant and bumper home crowd. A one-two finish. Things couldn’t have been scripted much better for the Brownlee brothers at the inaugural ITU World Triathlon Series race in Leeds this afternoon…
WTS Leeds: Elite men’s quotes
JONNY BROWNLEE, GBR, 2ND Advertisement ON RACING IN LEEDS… Basically it was incredible. The support is better than anything else in the world. It’s a good, honest triathlon course. We wanted that and that’s what…
Lucy Gossage takes 70.3 Staffs
The second edition of Ironman 70.3 Staffordshire on Sunday dawned still and calm, with the surface of Chasewater reservoir resembling a mirror. Advertisement Over 2,000 athletes set off in conditions that promised fast swim times,…
Allen and Slack win Eastbourne Tri
True to predictions, it was the Australian professional Ben Allen who took the first ever 32Gi Eastbourne Triathlon title in a time of 1:09:17. Allen was joined on the top step of the podium by…
World Triathlon Leeds: organisational issues blight age-group event
On first impressions and via the television coverage, the Leeds ITU World Triathlon event appeared to be a great advert for British Triathlon and the city of Leeds. However countless athletes who competed in the…
Race preview: ÖtillÖ hosts first UK race in the Scilly Isles this weekend
Swimrun has definitely crossed the waters from Sweden to become the new multisport craze – and this weekend sees founding brand ÖtillÖ (Swedish for ‘island to island’) host its new UK qualifier in the Scilly…
Swiss lakeside city to host 2019 ITU World Series Final
“It is a pleasure to announce that Lausanne, the “Olympic Capital”, has been awarded the World Championships in 2019,” said ITU President and IOC Member Marisol Casado. “The 2019 season will be a pre-Olympic year…
Hayes and Pallant win Windsor Triathlon
Stuart Hayes finished the Olympic distance race in 1:54:28, less than a minute ahead of young Tom Davis with David Bartlett in third. World Duathlon Champion Emma Pallant’s winning time of 2:06:06 was too strong…