We bring you 70.3 events on the Canary Islands and in Korea, a tough XTERRA US Championship in Utah, an Olympic distance in Beijing, and much more.
by Tim Carlson, September 20, 2015
Mario Mola posted a race-best 28:59 10k to edge fellow Spaniard Javier Gomez by 4 seconds for the Grand Final win; Gomez wins record 5th ITU World Championship title.
Audrey Merle edged fellow Frenchwoman Leonie Periault by a fraction of a second at the line to win the Under 23 Women’s title at the ITU World Championship Grand Final in Chicago.
Gwen Jorgensen capped off an unprecedented and undefeated domination of the ITU World Triathlon Series with a Grand Final win in Chicago, her 2nd straight ITU World title.
Jacob Birtwhistle of Australia won the ITU World Championship Men’s Under 23 Grand Final today in Chicago; Kevin McDowell took 4th place, the top U.S. finisher.
Brazilian Manoel Messias topped Germany’s Peer Sönksen, in a finish line sprint on a storm-delayed triathlon turned into a duathlon, at the ITU Junior Men’s World Championship.
We bring triathlon fans tales of an Ironman debut win by a Wildflower legend, Germans dominating a Dutch classic, and a 42-year-old Olympian prevailing at Pacific Grove.
Michael Raelert won wire-to-wire and Natascha Schmitt held off Yvonne Van Vlerken to take the men’s and women’s titles at Ironman 70.3 Ruegen.
Timothy Van Berkel ran away from Luke McKenzie and Caroline Steffen did the same to Annabel Luxford to take the pro titles at Ironman 70.3 Sunshine Coast in Australia.
Vicky Holland rode and ran through a driving rain and hand-numbing cold to a 9-seconds margin to win her second WTS victory of the year at Edmonton.
Richard Murray of South Africa edged Javier Gomez on a rainy, cold day in Edmonton, pouring it on in the 5k run with a race-best split of 15:10 and a 4 seconds margin of victory.
2008 Olympic cycling medalist Emma Pooley and Gaël Le Bellec repeated their 2014 titles as ITU Long Course Duathlon World Champions at Zofingen.
Jordan Rapp made a stunning comeback to physical recovery and triathlon success after his near-fatal accident in 2010, but as it turned out, his internal struggle over the past two years was a tougher puzzle to crack.