Mary Beth Ellis, one of the toughest female athletes in long-distance triathlon, has signed up to race next year’s Challenge Denmark on June 13th, 2015. Advertisement “I am so excited to race Challenge Denmark,” she says. “I have been searching for a race in Denmark the last few years and have long desired to visit […]
Click:ecolchi hair mask Good news for all the UK paratriathletes out there – a new mass-participation event series has been created specifically for you, offering five different distances and landing first at the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic rowing venue Dorney Lake on Sunday 9 August 2015. Advertisement Recruited to help the launch were Olympic sprinter […]
Over 1,000 duathletes descended on Castle Combe last Sunday (23 November) for the annual Chilly Duathlon. As always it featured the British University Championships (BUCS) duathlon championships, with some of the country’s brightest young stars were racing. Advertisement The day began with the classic Chilly Duathlon, with 400 people lining up on the start line. […]
Elivar, the sport nutrition specialist for athletes over 35, returns as the headline sponsor of our coveted 220 Triathlon Awards 2015. Advertisement The awards celebrate the best in triathlon, with 20 separate categories to recognise the top-rated athletes, races, coaches, brands, products, services and more which have graced the 2014 season. Category winners will be […]
There’s just over a week to go until the first Challenge Bahrain, and the organisers have confirmed the full pro field who’ll be racing for a slice of the whopping $500k prize fund. Advertisement Nearly 100 professional athletes will be lining up on 6 December, including both current Ironman world champions Sebastian Kienle and Mirinda […]
We’ve got the confirmed event routes for next year’s first Cardiff Triathlon, revealed at the official launch event which took place today at the Wales Millennium Centre. Advertisement The organisers, Always Aim High Events, say that they’ve already sold out of the 450 pre-sale places released to their database of triathletes – with over 200 entries […]
December is here and we’re feeling festive… So we’ve decided to offer our readers 12 competition prizes to be won between now and Christmas. Advertisement Our ’12 Comps of Christmas’ campaign will see a new prize to be won on the Competitions section of the 220 website every two days between now and the big […]
Triathlon is becoming an increasingly popular sport around the world, with more events and clubs popping up almost every day, and one country that’s showing plenty of potential is Turkey. Advertisement It is already a popular location for competing, especially now some of the European and International events take place there. Now in its fifth […]
British Triathlon has announced its paratriathlon funding for 2015, underlining its core focus of winning medals in the sport’s Paralympic Games debut in Rio. Advertisement The list of podium and potential beneficiaries has been refined to triathletes whose disability category will be raced in Brazil. It is an expected move with the elite paratriathlon programme’s […]
With the strongest line-up of pro athletes ever seen at a triathlon, we didn’t envy whoever had to pick names for the pre-race press conference line-up. To give you some idea of the calibre of elite rolling into the desert for the inaugural Challenge Bahrain this coming Saturday, silver medallist Lisa Norden was absent, as […]