Archive | August, 2011
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More success for Team GB at European Youth Championships

Team GB continued its remarkable success in 2011 with a Gold and Silver medal at the European Youth Championships. Alistair Brownlee, Helen Jenkins et al have shown in recent weeks to be amongst the best in the world and here in Tours, the GB Youths served warning that the future remains equally as bright for […]

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Ellis’s Makes it Three for Three – Rapp is Officially Back

Press Release from WTC (originally from www.ironman.com). In blistering heat and relentless winds, 2,800 athletes competed at the 29th running of Subaru Ironman Canada today. There was also some hot racing in the professional races as Mary Beth Ellis captured her third Ironman title of the summer and broke the course record, while Jordan Rapp’s […]

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Triathletes say no to doping.

The biggest stars of ITU Triathlon have a message and now they are ready to share it, after the official launch of WADA’s Say NO! To Doping campaign video in London. A year out from the London 2012 Olympic Games, the new campaign is an initiative of WADA for athletes to show their support for […]

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Amanda Stevens : “The secret to success is to have a definite goal and a plan to get you there.”

At  the second issue of our digital magazine we had an exclusive interview from Amanda Stevens, a rising star at the half and full Ironman distances. Amanda was very friendly and she has given us tips useful for triathletes of all levels. Her interview will appear again oat one of our next english issues. Amanda […]

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Long Distance Triathlon European Championships : Blanchart (ESP) and Pedersen (DEN) are the winners

The Long Distance Triathlon European Championships 2011 were held in Tampere, third largest city in Finland, famous for thousands of fresh water lakes. The race venue was in the idyllic city centre, located between two beautiful lakes Näsijärvi and Pyhäjärvi. The Long Distance Triathlon starts with 4 k swim, continues with 120 kilometers biking and […]

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An english version for www.triathlonworld.gr is almost ready to be launched

We have created www.triathlonworld.gr three maonths ago and we have decided that it’s the right time to make some radical changes. Our art editor Mrs. Christina Charamountani is in charge of the redisign project in cooperation with Diadyo- We b solutions company (www.diadyo.gr)  We need to apologise for this period where articles both in english […]

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Second place for Helle Frederiksen (DEN) at the ITU European Cup in Karlovy Vary

Helle Frederiksen (DEN) has given us an exclusive interview that will appear at the next issue of our digital magazine. As she is on the road to London 2012 Olympic Games she is trying  to collect as many as possible “olympic ranking” valuable points in order to qualify for the Games. We have asked her […]

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Great Britain’s dream team brilliant in ITU Team Triathlon World Championship win

Lausanne, Switzerland (21 August 2011) – They were labelled a dream team and Jodie Stimpson, Jonathan Brownlee, Helen Jenkins and Alistair Brownlee didn’t disappoint, as they added a Team Triathlon World Championship to Great Britain’s trophy cabinet in dominating fashion in Lausanne today. In the fast and furious 4 x mixed relay, Stimpson put Great Britain with the leaders in the […]

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Riveros takes first ever Sprint title

ITU Press Release. Barbara Riveros Diaz has claimed her maiden elite ITU world title and second career series win with a thrilling come-from-behind sprint finish at the ITU Elite Sprint Triathlon World Championships and Dextro Energy Triathlon Series round in Lausanne. Riveros Diaz had dropped to fourth coming into the final kilometre, as Australian Emma […]

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Jonathan Brownlee succesfully defends Elite Sprint Triathlon World Championship

ITU Press Release Jonathan Brownlee has successfully defended his ITU Elite Sprint Triathlon World Championship and claimed his first Dextro Energy Triathlon Series race win in a brilliant day for the Brownlee brothers in Lausanne. While Jonathan held off Javier Gomez to second to claim the second elite sprint world title in history, Alistair Brownlee’s […]

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No Wildcard Entries for Professional Athletes in Kona

Natascha Badmann receives extension of Automatic Qualifying entitlement at 2011 Ford Ironman World Championship Published Friday, August 19, 2011 Introduced in September 2010, the Kona Points Ranking (KPR) qualifying system has allowed professional athletes the opportunity to race and accumulate points at 85 qualifying events throughout the season. KPR rankings have been updated weekly, giving […]

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Sarah Haskins : “My toughest bike rides have been during draft legal races”

Sarah Haskins gave us an exclusive interview at the third issue of our digital magazine. Her interview will also appear at one of the next english version issues. Sarah Haskins is one of the strongest worldwide triathletes in both drafting legal and non drafting legal races and it’s very interesting to have her opinion concerning […]

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Greg Bennett : “I have the fondest memories of the Athens Olympic Games”.

The fifth issue of our digital magazine was inspired from Greg Bennett’s book “How to become a better triathlete”. Greg is a Triathlon superstar and it was an honour to have an exclusive interview from him at the fourth issue of our magazine.  His interview will also appear at the first issue of the english […]

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Lausanne Sprint Preview : Fast and furious action ahead

ITU Press Release : Prepare to get fast, really fast, when the 2011 Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series lands in Lausanne this weekend. Lausanne has already hosted some memorable international triathlon moments, the 1998 and 2006 ITU World Championships, Aquathlon world titles, European championships and multiple World Cups. Lately, it’s been host to […]

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Olympic Games Open Water Test Event : Third place for Spyros Gianniotis

FINA Press Release. Richard Weinberger of Canada stunned a field of world champions to win the London 10km Marathon Swimming International – Test Event for the Olympic Games – by a margin of more than 26 seconds. Weinberger hasn’t even qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games yet. His victory today is a confidence builder, but […]

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Helle Frederiksen (DEN) : “I don’t want to go to London to make up the numbers…”

At the next issue of our digital triathlon magazine   Helle Frederiksen from Denmark will appear on an exclusive interview. Helle is an elite athlete but also a sport scientist. She is training under the supervision of Michael Krueger, who was the coach of Rasmus Henning the last fifteen years. She reveals her training secrets and […]

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Gwen Jorgensen (USA) and Brent McMahon (CAN) claim first career ITU Triathlon World Cup titles in Hungary

ITU Press Release :Gwen Jorgensen (USA) and Brent McMahon (CAN) claim first career ITU Triathlon World Cup titles in Hungary Tiszaujvaros, Hungary (14 August 2011) – One week after Gwen Jorgensen (USA) qualified for the London 2012 Olympic Games, the rising American star backed it up with her first World Cup win at the 2011 Tiszaujvaros ITU Triathlon World […]

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Kate Allen (AUT): “Maybe the race is over for you, but not for me”

We are really excited to have an exclusive interview from Kate Allen at the next issue of the Triathlon World digital magazine that it will be available on the Internet at the end of August (we apologise for the delay, it as first scheduled to be “published” at the middle of August). The more you […]

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Athens : an ideal training destination for Triathletes

Athens was the host city of the 2004 Olympic Games. In order to be able to host with success these games the greek governments have rebuild the majority of the training installations that exist in Athens. Unfortunately the Hellenic ministry of Tourism has never made an ad campaing in order to promote the excellent training […]

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Helle Frederiksen : A sport scientist & an elite athlete

Triathlon World differentiates itself from other triathlon magazines as it has a training orientation (and of course the unique minimal layout) . That’s the reason why we are trying to interview athletes that they have a strong & unique training philosophy. Denmark is a unique country as it’s a small nation that has produced many […]

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Ironman Regensburg : Fachbach και Ellis Οι νικητές

Το μεγάλο φαβορί ο Andreas Raelert γύρισε τον αστράγαλό του σε μία από τις τελευταίες προπονήσεις του στο τρέξιμο και έτσι έτρεξε απλά και μόνο για την επικύρωση της θέσης του στην Κόνα. Είχε δηλώσει εδώ και πολλές μέρες ότι θα αφιέρωνε την συμμετοχή σε φιλανθρωπικούς οργανισμούς και για κάθε αθλητή που θα τον περνούσε […]

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TriathlonWorld launches an English version

TriathlonWorld is a digital triathlon magazine that until now it was “published” only in Greek. As we had many exclusive interviews from the best athletes of our sport we have decided that we should allow to all triathletes around the world to have access to these interviews and to some interesting training articles written by […]

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