COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) today announced that the sport of paratriathlon will officially make its debut at the Paralympic Summer Games in 2016 in Rio De Janeiro. The announcement came following a vote by the IPC Governing Board in Guangzhou, China, prior to the Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Asian [...]
BUDAPEST, Hungary – Olympian Laura Bennett ran her way to an eighth-place finish Sunday at the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series Grand Final to secure the No. 10 spot in the final WCS series rankings. Continuing her late-season surge with a fourth consecutive top-10 WCS finish, Bennett posted a time of 1 hour, [...]
BUDAPEST, Hungary – Olympian Laura Bennett ran her way to an eighth-place finish Sunday at the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series Grand Final to secure the No. 10 spot in the final WCS series rankings. Continuing her late-season surge with a fourth consecutive top-10 WCS finish, Bennett posted a time of 1 hour, [...]
More than 250 Americans – ranging from elites to age-groupers to paraduathletes – are scheduled to represent the United States at the 2010 ITU Duathlon World Championships on Sept. 3-5 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The U.S. contingent will face the world’s best elite and age group competitors at Edinburgh’s Holyrood Park to compete for six world [...]
As the Olympic Winter Games opened in style last night in Vancouver, Canada, thousands of miles away in Norway, ITU’s winter triathletes were concentrating on their own battle for gold. Swedish star Andreas Svanebo and American Rebecca Dussault were the athletes who emerged victorious to deny Norway a victory on home snow.
With nine ITU Triathlon World Cup races added to the calendar, the 2010 triathlon season will provide the world’s best triathletes with an unrivalled chance to compete at international cities and venues as the sport of triathlon continues to grow on the global stage.
