She’s coming back! Thrilled to welcome @chrissiesmiles back to #challengeroth. Will she witness her record fall? @danielaryf #triathlon pic.twitter.com/gnRKLjiUUc — Challenge Roth (@ChallengeRoth1) 23 June 2017 On July 9 Ironman World Champion Daniela Ryf will be racing Challenge Roth in Germany with one goal in mind; breaking Chrissie Wellington’s Iron-distance world record of 8:18:13, which […]
The Professional Triathletes Organisation, Challenge Family and Challenge Roth have today announced that the inaugural Collins Cup will be hosted at Challenge Roth on 1 July 2018 and will be the highlight of the weekend celebrations at the legendary race. Advertisement In order to accommodate a live global media broadcast, the first Collins Cup match is […]
On a hot and windy day at one of triathlon’s most spectacular and historic races, Daniela Ryf has taken her second consecutive Challenge Roth title in front of 200,000+ spectators. Her currently unofficial time of 8:40:03 fell short of Chrissie Wellington’s 8:18hr iron-distance world record, but was still the 10th fastest women’s iron time in […]
Ironman have announced that September’s Ironman Wales in Tenby will be allocated 25 additional qualifying slots for the 2018 Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, taking the total number of slots available to 65. Advertisement The race on Wales’ south-west coast has become a firm athlete favourite and now carries the added prestige as a […]
Brit online bike giants Ribble Cycles has today launched a new collection of bike apparel; the Nuovo cycling clothing range. Advertisement Targeted at both male and female cyclists, the Nuovo clothing collection initially consists of cycling jerseys and shorts, with more items to be released in the coming months. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey The […]
Blink and you might have missed this year’s WTS Hamburg sprint-distance women’s race, which saw reigning world champ Flora Duffy make light(ish) work of the historic German city’s streets to win her first WTS sprint distance and her third straight WTS race of 2017. Advertisement Just off the 750m swim pace, which saw Brazil’s Vittoria […]
The 2017 Hamburg men’s WTS race came down to a 5km blast-out, with almost the entire field having sat in for the six-lap 20km bike. Advertisement Heading the standings going into the fifth race of the season was Spain’s Fernando Alarza, looking for his first victory of 2017 having collected a string of silver and […]
The organisers of the new Super League Triathlon, which debuted in Australia in March, have announced that Jersey will be the second location of the event. Fifty of the world’s leading male and female triathletes, including 25 Olympians from around the world, will compete in the Channel Islands, UK, for the Super League Triathlon crown […]
Ironman have announced that the full 226km distance Ironman UK will remain in Bolton, Greater Manchester, until 2022. Bolton will also continue to host the world’s biggest Ironkids event, with 2,500 children participating annually. Advertisement The announcement comes off the back of a 2017 event, won by Lucy Gossage and Cyril Viennot, which saw over 2,000 […]
Bermuda’s Flora Duffy claimed her fourth consecutive WTS win of 2017 on Saturday to head the overall standings with three races to go. The defending champ won with an even bigger margin of victory than in Hamburg two weeks ago, in a time of 1:00:22, a full minute clear of second place Taylor Knibb of […]