The USA’s Ben Collins and Canada’s Tenille Hoogland took first ITU professional victories, joining a select group of former winners
by Tim Carlson, July 12, 2010
Terenzo Bozzone ran down Paul Ambrose to win the Amica Ironman 70.3 Rhode Island and added another win to his already fantastic 2010 season. Kate Major chased down Sam Warriner to win the women’s title.
The 2010 Lifetime Fitness Triathlon is in the books and Eric Wynn was in Minneapolis, MN to capture the action.
Ivan Tutukin won the 2010 Holten ITU Triathlon World Cup and narrowly held off fellow Russian Yulian Malyshev and Portuguese Pro Joao Pereira. Aussie Erin Densham grabbed the women’s title with a slightly more comfortable margin.
Matty Reed and Sarah Haskins repeat as victors at the Lifetime Fitness Triathlon in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With his win Reed now leads the 2010 Race To The Toyota Cup, while 3rd place getter Mary Beth Ellis leads the women’s standings.
It’s hard to argue that Emma Snowsill is slipping after her comeback run to win her second Life Time Fitness $200,000 payout to go with her three World titles, Olympic and Commonwealth Games Gold.
Canada’s triathlon Golden Boy confronts aging, tactics, fatherhood, the evolving new wave of his sport, and the angst of rooting for Canadian hockey gold
Alistair Brownlee is back to his dominating 2009 form as he crushes the men’s field at Athlone; Nicola Spirig wins her second ETU European Championship in a row and second major event in a month.
The last few days we noticed the AVIA AVI-Quest Lite training shoe, a Chris Macca McCormack comic strip, the new aerodynamic Scott F1 road bike and SPF 50+ sun block from Scape Labs.
Andreas Raelert stormed to the win at the 2010 Ironman European Championships in Frankfurt, Germany with a superb bike split and held off a stellar field. Sandra Wallenhorst ran down Caroline Steffen to take the women’s title.
Marino Vanhoenacker’s 7:52:05 is 4th fastest all-time at the distance as the Belgian captures his 5th straight Ironman Austria; Eva Dollinger takes women’s crown.
The Professional Triathlon Association (PROTA), conceived to represent the interests of American pros, expands to non-U.S. pros, confronts its first challenge in responding to WTC’s proposals.
The inaugural Abu Dhabi International Triathlon was announced in November of 2009 and made quite an impression a few months later. The Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority now announced that the registration for the 2011 event is open.