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Emma Moffatt and Laurent Vidal lived up to their headliner status in Geelong on Sunday, with the top-two ranked athletes in the field taking the titles at the 2012 Geelong ITU Sprint Triathlon Premium Oceania Cup.
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Swallow and Van Hoenacker Dominate Buffalo City 70.3
Defending Champion Jodie Swallow rose to the occasion to successfully defend her 70.3 title down at Buffalo City on January 22nd. Coming into the race, Swallow had endured a somewhat miserable on and off season since winning the event in 2011. Plagued by injury and illness since her win last year, she came to East London fresh and ready to start 2012 on a positive note. She had spent some time training down in the Cape with partner James Cunnama and this seemed to pay off as she hit the water for the start of the 1.9km ocean swim. Conditions for the swim were ideal with a water temperature of around 16 degrees awaiting the 3000 competitors as they entered the Indian Ocean for what is now, the largest 70.3 event in the world. Swallow was comfortably nestled amongst the top 5 men for the duration of the swim and indeed left T2 in 3rd place overall.
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WANAKA, NZ — Australia’s Aaron Farlow came through a strong field to win the sixth edition of the long-course Challenge Wanaka triathlon on Saturday.
Farlow broke the tape in 8:41:53, 10 minutes ahead of defending champion Jamie Whyte of Auckland with Aucklander Kieran Doe another six minutes behind in third.
Farlow, a rising Canberra-based professional, took his first Ironman win last year in the UK and showed his class with a steady performance that brought him from three minutes behind in the swim to an emphatic win. He was clearly spent at the finish.
While disappointed he couldn’t defend his title, Whyte said he was pleased with a day that saw him racing solo much of the race and unable to pick up the pace on the run as he’d hoped.
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Durban 9th January
Schoeman and Dance Dominate
Henri Schoeman (TEAM FUTURE LIFE) tasted victory in the first race of the 2012 season by convincingly winning the Suncoast Multisport Series Triathlon held in Durban on the 9th of January. Schoeman, the fastest triathlon swimmer in the country at the moment, lead the swimmers out of the 1.5km sea swim with a healthy buffer over fellow team mate, Glen Gore who was trailing about 1:30 back. A big group of swimmers all exited the water after Gore with their sites set firmly on catching Schoeman over the flat and fast 40km cycle. This was not to be as Schoeman extended his lead on the bike leg which gave him a sizable cushion heading onto the 10km run. Schoeman (Future Life) crossed the line first in just over 2hrs with Gore (Team Future Life) a further 3 minutes and Gilbert Quevauvilliers (Pronto Print) rounding out the final podium spot. Lauren Dance (Mad Multisport) had an equally convincing win in the ladies section, leading from the front and never looking challenged.
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It’s no secret; Sri Lanka is a jewel of South Asia waiting to be discovered. Romantic island hideaways, a rich culture and a food lover’s paradise, Sri Lanka has it all. But if that isn’t enough there is now another reason to put Sri Lanka on your destination hit list as the countdown is now on for the inaugural 70.3 Ironman Sri Lanka and 5150.
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Team BSG reigned supreme claiming 4 podium positions at the final event of the 2011 BSG Energade Triseries. Richard Murray (Team BSG) pulled off a fantastic finish and Andrea Steyn (Team BSG) made it seven out of seven in the 2011 Series!
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Auckland, New Zealand (20 November 2011) - New Zealand’s Andrea Hewitt put the perfect finishing touch on her already excellent 2011 season, leading a bike breakaway en route to a dominant World Cup win in Auckland.
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Two former champions regained their titles as the top Ironman triathletes in the World as Australia’s Craig Alexander and Great Britain’s Chrissie Wellington took the Winners titles at the Ford Ironman World Championship held in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Craig Alexander’s win was highlighted by a course-record finish time of 8:03:56 eclipsing the 16 year old record time held by Belgium’s Luc Van Lierde.
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Huatulco, Mexico (9 October 2011) – Japanese women continue to dominate the Huatulco ITU Triathlon World Cup. With 2-time defending champion Ai Ueda not back to try for a third straight title, her teammate Juri Ide kept the title in Japan by storming to her second career World Cup victory. Continue Reading →
Following a solid swim, Ide rode safely in the lead group before burying the field on the 10km run to win by a comfortable margin, stopping the clock at 2 hours, 12 minutes and 52 seconds.
