Luke Bell topped fellow Aussie (and fellow Luke) McKenzie by 2:44 at the 2010 Ironman 70.3 Cancun. In the women’s race Dr. Amanda Stevens edged Michellie Jones by 1:17 on a very hot day.
by Tim Carlson, September 19, 2010
Ben Hoffman’s second-best bike and run tops Tom Lowe by 2:45; Kelly Williamson’s race-best run gives her an 8-minute margin over Angela Naeth at Ironman 70.3 Branson.
Baseball has Fenway Park. Auto racing has Monaco. Triathlon’s similar jewel is the Triathlon at Pacific Grove. Photo gallery by Timothy Carlson.
Emma Snowsill came back from injury to win the Dextro Energy-ITU Grand Final , Emma Moffatt took second in the Grand Final in Budapest, but won her second World Championship Series title.
Alistair Brownlee edged Javier Gomez by four seconds for the World Championship Series Grand Final; but Gomez grabbed the WCS points title despite an incident during the bike segment.
With Emma Snowsill still fighting lingering physical woes, sensational newcomer Paula Findlay of Canada is favored for the Grand Final at Budapest; Moffatt, Norden, Hewitt, Jenkins, Riveros-Diaz and Spirig fight it out for the WCS title.
Jan Frodeno favored to win World Championship Series points title, but Javier Gomez should win the Grand Final at Budapest. Timothy Carlson offers the odds and urges offended competitors to prove him wrong.
Josiah Middaugh edges Mike Vine on the run while Melanie McQuaid dominated the field at Whistler, British Columbia’s XTERRA Canada Championship.
Bart Aernouts led a 1-2-3 Belgian sweep of the ITU short course Duathlon Worlds, outsprinting Rob Woestenborghs by 2 seconds with Joerie Vansteelant third.
Catriona Morrison of Scotland wins the elite title at the ITU Duathlon World Championship in her home town of Edinburgh; outruns France’s Sandra Levenez in final leg
Seth Wealing of the United States defended his XTERRA Mexico men’s title and Fabiola Corona of Mexico took the women’s crown in Valle de Bravo
An appreciation of Jim MacLaren, the man for whom the Challenged Athletes Foundation was created, and co-recipient of the 2005 Arthur Ashe Courage Award, who died August 30 at age 47.
Terry Davis and his Tri-California crew put on their inaugural San Francisco Triathlon at Alcatraz Sunday and Tenille Hoogland, Ben Collins, more than a thousand age groupers and the course itself put on a show. Photo Gallery by Timothy Carlson.
