Greg Billington of Colorado Springs ran away from Clark Ellice of New Zealand on the final 2-mile run leg to win $2,500 at the Formula 1 sprint triathlon revival Saturday in Coronado, California.
by Tim Carlson, September 29, 2012
20 pros competed for a $10,000 purse at the lightning fast F1 Triathlon in Coronado. Photo gallery by Timothy Carlson.
Craig Alexander comes to the Ironman World Championship atop the Kona Pro Rankings by a runaway margin; with a sub-8 hour win at Melbourne and a second at 70.3 Worlds, he’s aiming at a 4th Kona win at 39.
The black and white photographs of Paul K. Robbins are a match for the athletic excellence of Craig Alexander; Crowie’s understated prose about his 2011 year gives a great look inside the heart and mind of a legend.
Cyril Viennot topped Stephane Poulat by 63 seconds and Mary Beth Ellis won a photo finish duel with Jeanne Collonge at Ironman 70.3 Pays d’Aix France Sunday.
Andy Potts posted the fastest swim, bike and run splits to out pace runner-up Ben Hoffman by 4 minutes; Jenny Fletcher outdueled Nina Kraft-Johnson by 30 seconds to win Ironman 70.3 Branson.
Dmitry Polyanskiy of Russia and Nicky Samuels of New Zealand won the men’s and women’s titles on a hot day at the Tongyeong ITU World Cup in Korea Saturday.
Jordan Rapp was a repeat winner and Christine Anderson won her first Leadman Epic 250 which moved from a hellish Las Vegas course to a simply hard test in Bend, Oregon.
Josiah Middaugh of Vail, Colorado and reigning XTERRA Elite Women’s World Champion Lesley Paterson of San Diego and Scotland won the XTERRA USA National Championship at Snowbasin Resort in Utah.
Rasmus Henning, who earned two big money Hy-Vee victories, competed in two Olympics, posted a 7:52:36 Ironman-distance best and won Abu Dhabi this year declares he will retire after Ironman Hawaii this October.
Bevan Docherty of New Zealand and Sarah Groff of the United States won the men’s and women’s elite titles Sunday at the inaugural $100,000 Beijing International Triathlon in southwest Beijing, China.
Stephen Bayliss of Great Britain and Gina Crawford of New Zealand won the men’s and women’s overall titles at Challenge Henley-on-Thames Sunday in Great Britain.
Jarrod Shoemaker and Sarah Haskins won their 2nd USA Triathlon Elite National titles and the ITU Pan American Cup today at Buffalo, New York.
