Four years after cancer forced doctors to amputate Jamie Whitmore’s left gluteus, the 37-time XTERRA winner and 5-time XTERRA National champ won another national title – USA Cycling’s Women’s C-3 Paracycling Time Trial.
by Tim Carlson, June 21, 2012
Lukas Verzbicas ran away from Laurent Vidal and Dimtry Polyansky with a blazing 30:55 to win in his first World Cup; Gwen Jorgenson topped the women to make it a USA sweep at the ITU World Cup in Banyoles, Spain.
Philip Graves of Great Britain topped Markus Thomschke of Germany by 1:19 and Eimear Mullan of Ireland dominated the women’s field at the always challenging Ironman 70.3 UK.
Andy Potts won his 5th and Leanda Cave won her 4th as they earned the Escape From Alcatraz men’s and women’s overall titles Sunday in San Francisco.
Ruedi Wild of Switzerland topped Josh Amberger of Australia by 32 seconds and Daniela Ryf of Switzerland edged Liz Blatchford of Great Britain to win Klagenfurt 5i50.
Clayton Fettell topped Paul Ambrose by 2:34 and Rachel Joyce dominated the women’s field by 22:40 to win the men’s and women’s overall titles at Ironman 70.3 Kansas.
Conrad Stoltz of South Africa and Melanie McQuaid of Canada won the men’s and women’s titles at the XTERRA East Championship in Richmond Sunday and both Stoltz and McQuaid seem to really enjoy this event.
Triathlon Australia rejects Emma Snowsill’s Olympic selection appeal; the defending gold medalist and greatest clutch Olympic distance triathlete in the sport’s history has been rejected twice by Australian Olympic selectors.
Brutal cold temps and wet weather forced cutting bike to 15 miles; Callum Millward and Matt Reed finished in the first tie in Ironman history and Jodie Swallow dominated the women’s field at Boise 29.3.
The British Triathlon Federation picked Stuart Hayes and Lucy Hall to serve in Olympic domestique roles in support of the Brownlees and Helen Jenkins; Will Clarke and Tim Don, Liz Blatchford and Jodie Stimpson are left off.
Austin, Texas amateur triathlete Joe Thorne had the second fastest run last year at Ironman Hawaii. Now he is trying to add a top rank swim and bike to compete with the best in the world.
Emma Moffatt, Erin Densham, Emma Jackson are in — defending Olympic champion Emma Snowsill is off the 2012 Australian Olympic Triathlon team; Courtney Atkinson, Brendan Sexton join Brad Kahlefeldt on the men’s squad.
Australian Clayton Fettell combined a race-best swim and bike with a 4th-best run to dominate the men’s field; Canadian Magali Tisseyre topped Mary Beth Ellis by 2:31 to win Ironman 70.3 Mooseman in New Hampshire
