Month: March 2021

INSPIRING DUO: Jeff Agar pulls his son, Johnny, who suffers with cerebral palsy, along the bike course © Tom Pentington/Getty Images for IRONMAN Advertisement THE “Stunning images from Kona 2016”

The half-distance race consists of a 1.9km swim, followed by a 90km cycle and a 21km run. The bike leg starts in Peguera and takes in Es “Challenge Peguera Mallorca in pictures”

Fed up with  your bike being pinched stolen locking it securely? A pair of inventors from San Francisco could have a novel solution that could “New bike lock causes thieves to vomit”

Olympic gold and silver medallists, Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee, along with bronze medallist Vicky Holland, will be attending British Triathlon’s annual award ceremony on 12 “Olympic and Paralympic stars to attend BTF awards”

ITU World Champion Flora Duffy has won her second world title of 2016, the Xterra World Championships in Kapalua, Hawaii. This was Duffy’s third Xterra “Unbeatable Flora Duffy wins 2016 Xterra World Championship”

For many age-groupers, the 2016 ITU Leeds Triathlon failed to live up to expectation, with organisational issues causing chaos across the course and many athletes “Leeds Tri organisers to donate £40k to tri clubs”

“You’ll be hot, cold, hot, cold – that’s the nature of swimrun…” says Michael Lemmel. “Or, in the case of this race,” muses fellow race director Mats “ÖtillÖ Swimrun 1000 Lakes: the toughest swimrun yet?”

Italy’s first full-distance Ironman triathlon is to take place on September 23 2017 in Cervia, a seaside town in the Italian province of Emilia-Romagna, Ironman “Italy to host its first Ironman”

Olympic gold medallist Gwen Jorgensen and fourth-place finisher in Rio Richard Murray have rounded out their 2016 season with victories at the Island House Invitational “Gwen Jorgensen and Richard Murray win Island House Invitational Tri”

Ironman have today confirmed that the full 226km distance Ironman will not be hosted in 2017. The Ironman 70.3 distance race will return to Dorset, “Ironman 70.3 Weymouth to go it alone”