Kendra Lee, a 32-year-old age grouper from Denver Colorado, posted the fastest overall women’s time at Ironman Canada; Matthew Russell of Scottsdale, Arizona, who placed 3rd at Ironman Mt. Tremblant 1 week ago, was first overall male.
by Tim Carlson, August 26, 2012
Olympic silver medalist Lisa Norden took a dominating home country win at the Stockholm World Triathlon Series sprint race, running away from surprise runner-up Maaike Caelers of the Netherlands.
Jonathan Brownlee of Great Britain follows up his Olympic bronze with a smashing win at the Stockholm World Triathlon Series sprint event, holding off Javier Gomez by 7 seconds.
Peter the Great Reid and his three Ironman World Championships had been happy to quit professional triathlon and enjoy life as a Canadian bush pilot. So what drew him back to a Penticton alliance with the Challenge group?
Challenge Family announced today what appears to be a long distance triathlon coup — the expansion of its global series of triathlons to North America with a 2013 Challenge Penticton race.
In the immediate wake of two-time winner Chris McCormack and three-time champion Craig Alexander, 2011 runner-up Pete Jacobs has the game – if healthy – to follow fellow Aussies atop the podium at Kona.
In this race roundup update we cover 70.3 Yeppoon, 70.3 Steelhead and Ironman Mont-Tremblant. Tim Reed, Lisa Marangon, Daniel Bretscher, Jessica Jacobs, Romain Guillaume and Jessie Donavan were among the winners today.
Stephen Bayliss of Great Britain defended his title and Martina Dogana of Italy overtook Carrie Lester of Australia on the run to win a race shortened to half Iron distance because of scorching temperatures.
Joe Gambles ran away from Leon Griffin with a race-best 1:13:31 half marathon and Heather Wurtele’s race-fastest bike trumped Caitlin Snow’s race-best run to take top honors at Ironman 70.3 Timberman.
Brian Duffy topped Drew Scott by 36 seconds and Haley Chura edged Catherine Sterling by 37 seconds to win the men’s and women’s overall titles at the USA Triathlon Olympic Distance Age Group Nationals.
Richie Cunningham of Australia topped Kyle Leto of the U.S. by 2:53 and Nicole Kelleher outpaced fellow U.S. pro Jessica Meyers by 5:53 to win the titles at Rev3 Wisconsin
Aaron Farlow of Australia used a race-best swim and bike to top Mads Vittrup-Pedersen of Denmark by 4:48 and Camilla Pedersen edged fellow Dane Lisbeth Kristensen by 2:57 to win the KMD Challenge Copenhagen.
Jordan Rapp and Mary Beth Ellis duplicated their winning performances earlier this year at Ironman Texas with dominating victories on a hot, hot day at the inaugural Ironman U.S. Championship in New York City.