Month: November 2020

Jan Frodeno has won today’s Ironman World Championships in Hawaii. The German broke the course record in the process with a time of seven hours “Jan Frodeno wins the 2019 Ironman World Champs”

Anne Haug today made it a German sweep of the top step of the Ironman World Championship podium, crossing the line in 8:40hrs to win “Anne Haug takes Kona victory”

With over two thousand age-group athletes competing, the 2019 Ironman World Championships were far from being just about Frodeno and Brownlee, Charles-Barclay and Haug.  Advertisement “Kona 2019: An age-grouper’s perspective”

GB’s Lucy Charles-Barclay gave it her all but victory wasn’t to be hers and she finished second for the third year running Advertisement     “Kona 2019: athletes post their reaction on social media”

Ready for the off: swimmers nervously wait for the buzzer Advertisement The long road ahead: cyclists out on the 180km bike leg Beautiful Kona – “The 2019 Ironman World Championships in pictures”

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Allowing female triathletes with testosterone levels in the male range (as a result of rare inborn conditions) to compete against women with normal levels has caused “Testosterone: increased levels found to improve a female athlete’s performance significantly”

Not content with hogging our TV screens in September in Channel 4’s Sink or Swim, Huub kept the exposure coming this week with the launch of “Huub launch the Anemoi + tri-suit”

TORQ says: “The new TORQ Brexit Bar contains 52% crispy leaves and 48% succulent remainsins. Formulated by TORQ’s Performance Nutrition team to give the UK “TORQ reveal new Brexit bar”

The idea of popping a few painkillers before an Ironman is becoming commonplace. One study showed that as many as 60% of triathletes were taking “Promoting painkillers sets dangerous precedent”