Articles by Tim Carlson

Jodie Swallow led wire-to-wire and Sylvain Sudrie edged fellow Frenchman Cyril Viennot to win the ITU Long Distance World Championship titles in Oklahoma.

Triathletes from Mexico and the U.S. vied for age group supremacy at the 2016 ITU Grand Final in Cozumel – a roundup of top performances at the World Championship.

Marc Duelsen passed Phillip Graves at 35km of the run and Darbi Roberts passed Jeanne Collonge late in the run to win Ironman Wales.

Jonathan Brownlee collapsed 400 meters from the finish, was picked up and led to the line by brother Alistair, allowing Schoeman to win the race and Mola the World title at Cozumel.

Flora Duffy took a big lead on the bike and held off Gwen Jorgensen, the sport’s greatest runner, to win the Grand Final and the WTS World Championship in Cozumel.

Josiah Middaugh beat Braden Currie by 7/100th of a second and Suzie Snyder topped Lizzy Orchard by 3 minutes to win the XTERRA Pan America Championships.

Jorik Van Egdom of Netherlands and Laura Lindemann of Germany won the ITU Under23 World Championship titles in Cozumel.

Austin Hindman and Taylor Knibb of the U.S. took the Men’s and Women’s titles at the sprint distance ITU Junior World Championship in Cozumel.

Despite a broken hand in March, no 2016 WTS race finishes, and long odds against taking down Gwen Jorgensen, Nicola Spirig made Rio a duel to remember.

Odds are that Flora Duffy and Gwen Jorgensen will battle it out for the WTS women’s crown and Mario Mola and Jonny Brownlee will duel for the WTS men’s title.

Two-time ITU Olympic Triathlon gold medalist Alistair Brownlee of Great Britain and Mariya Shorets of Russia won the gold medals at the ITU Aquathlon World Championship.

Allysa Seely led a U.S. podium sweep in PT2, Grace Norman of the U.S. won PT4, and Australia’s Katie Kelly, guided by Michellie Jones, won PT5 at the Paralympic paratriathlon.