After his win at the inaugural Challenge Copenhagen, Aussie Tim Berkel was not only happy about the new title and bringing home the bacon, he also was relieved not to be viewed as a one-hit-wonder anymore.
by Herbert Krabel, August 30, 2010Paul Ambrose earned his first Ironman title with a win at the 2010 Ironman Louisville today. In the women’s race Rebekah Keat followed up her win at the Challenge Copenhagen race a few weeks ago with another victory in Louisville.
Mark Fretta took a fine win at the 2010 Lifetime Fitness Chicago Triathlon, while Toyota Cup points leader Matty Reed failed to finish in the top five. Sarah Haskins grabbed the women’s title with a very dominating performance.
Ben Collins and Tenille Hoogland repeated their wins at Treasure Island with victories at the inaugural San Francisco Triathlon at Alcatraz; Collins’ bike tops Kyle Leto and Hoogland’s run edges Amanda Stevens.
At the 2010 Subaru Ironman Canada Victor Zyemtsev ran down a long time race leader to take the win, just as he had done several times before. In the women’s race Meredith Kessler followed up her runner-up spot in Coeur D’Alene with a win today.
After dealing with an Achilles injury, Joe Gambles successfully defended his title at Ironman 70.3 Lake Stevens and now the Aussie has his eyes set on Ironman Wisconsin and qualifying for Kona.
Paula Findlay had shown quite a bit of promise the last couple years, but really stepped into the limelight with great wins at the ITU WCS races in London and Kitzbühel. The fast, charming and humble Canadian had a few words with slowtwitch.
Andy Potts and Chrissie Wellington stormed to dominating wins at Timberman 70.3. Eric Wynn was there to capture the action.
Denmark’s two-time $200,000 Hy-Vee winner, Olympian, Ironman China and Challenge Roth winner, and Kona contender has a beautiful home and family in the small town of Birkerod 30 kilometers north of Copenhagen. Photo gallery by Timothy Carlson.
A bit more than a year ago we featured a gallery of Pros with their dogs and now we share part 2 of that series.
Australian Pete Jacobs outruns Terenzo Bozzone and Magali Tisseyre of Canada outruns Michellie Jones in wilting heat to win Philippines 70.3
Andy Potts led from start to finish as he won 70.3 Timberman three straight times now. Chrissie Wellington also never trailed in this triathlon as she took the title for the third time in as many attempts and finished 10th overall.
Daniela Ryf, Ruedi Wild, Nicola Sprig and Sven Riederer teamed up for a back-to-back ITU Team Relay World Championship home country victory for the Swiss, who beat France by 40 seconds; USA 8th.