Two changes for 2016’s Blenheim Palace Triathlon: the event will be held slightly earlier than in previous years, and long-time sponsor Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research has changed its name to Bloodwise.
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Two changes for 2016’s Blenheim Palace Triathlon: the event will be held slightly earlier than in previous years, and long-time sponsor Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research has changed its name to Bloodwise.
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Next year’s Bloodwise Blenheim Palace Triathlon will be held on 4-5 June and entries go on sale to the general public on 3 September 2015. The iconic Oxfordshire event is set in the spectacular grounds of Blenheim Palace, a World Heritage Site renowned as the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill.
Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research chose Bloodwise as its new name after listening and responding to the needs of patients. The charity says its new name better captures all the life-changing work now being done – its continuing world-class research, its expanding portfolio of patient support services, and its role speaking up on behalf of those affected by blood cancer.
Matt Lawley, Head of Sports Events at Bloodwise, said: “Over the past three years the Blenheim Palace Triathlon has helped to raise awareness of our charity and over £1.5million to beat blood cancers. Next year’s event will be an amazing opportunity to make people aware of our new name.”
Thanks to everyone who’s signed our Thunderclap so far. Together we will beat blood cancer: http://t.co/Cj8f5zwuVN pic.twitter.com/rRrkZAUxup
— Beat Blood Cancers (@beatbloodcancer) August 24, 2015
This year’s event saw more than 7,000 people race around the palace, with Chris Perham and India Lee winning the elite races last June as part of the British Super Series.
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For next year’s Bloodline Blenheim Palace Triathlon, participants are encouraged to get 48 hr priority entry for 2016 now by registering their interest.
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Spain and the USA continue to bestride the World Triathlon Series leaderboards for 2015, hogging the top-three spots for the men’s and women’s title races respectively.
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In the men’s rankings, 2014 champ Javier Gomez (ESP) managed to record a winning margin of 45 seconds for WTS Stockholm last weekend – the biggest gap for a WTS race in two years. It surely helped that neither Alistair nor Jonny Brownlee were racing though.
This means that Gomez now has a career record of 34 WTS podiums from 46 race starts, and sits top of the 2015 leaderboard with 3820 points. His high-flying compatriot Mario Mola didn’t have such a good race in Stockholm, finishing 12th, but remains second on the leaderboard (3374pts). Fernando Alarza rounds out the top three (2961pts), thanks to a consistent run of results this season topped by silver in London.
France’s Vincent Luis sits in fourth position (2910pts), having grabbed gold at WTS Hamburg last month and racked up four podiums in total this year. South Africa’s Richard Murray is not far behind with 2857pts, though his best WTS result so far this season was bronze in Abu Dhabi.
And the Brits? Alistair and Jonny are in ninth and tenth at the moment, with just four points between them. Alistair made a strong start to the Rio 2016 test event earlier this month before being forced to slow down by an ankle injury, while Jonny remains out with a stress fracture picked up in St. Moritz. It’s not clear yet if either Brownlee will return to WTS racing this year.
Women’s rankings
Sarah True clearly enjoys Sweden – having grabbed the first WTS gold of her career in Stockholm last year, she repeated the feat over the weekend and strengthened her third place (3322pts) in the leaderboard rankings with just Edmonton and the Chicago Grand Final remaining.
With Gwen Jorgensen (4000pts) having won all six races she has started in 2015, True joins Britain’s Vicky Holland as the only other athlete to reach the top step of a WTS podium in 2015.
The USA’s Katie Zaferes continued her incredible run of second-place finishes in Stockholm, taking her fifth silver medal of the season last weekend, and currently sits in second position behind Jorgensen with 3700pts.
New Zealand’s Andrew Hewitt is in fourth position on the leaderboard with 3131pts, thanks to a consistent run of top-10 finishes that’s included bronze in Auckland and Stockholm. Rachel Klamer (NED) holds fifth position in the points race (2196pts), despite not reaching a WTS podium yet this year.
Non Stanford, Gwen Jorgensen and Vicky Holland racing at Rio 2016 test event
Vicky Holland is top-ranked Brits with 2126pts in sixth place, having won WTS Cape Town and taken silver in Hamburg. Resurgent fellow Brit Non Stanford is out of the title race with 1238pts, after being forced to miss a number of races due to injury, but thrilling performances in her last few races suggest the 2013 world champ is getting back to top form.
The next stop on the World Triathlon Series is Edmonton, Canada on September 6th over the Sprint distance, followed by the Grand Final in Chicago on 18-19 September. We’ll be in Chicago to bring you all the action live right here on 220triathlon.com.
Columbia Threadneedle Rankings following ITU World Triathlon, Stockholm
Men
1st – Javier Gomez Noya (ESP) 3820
2nd – Mario Mola (ESP) 3374
3rd – Fernando Alarza (ESP) 2961
4th – Vincent Luis (FRA) 2910
5th – Richard Murray (RSA) 2857
6th – Ryan Bailie (AUS) 2601
7th – Henri Schoeman (RSA) 2508
8th – Joao Pereira (POR) 2344
9th – Alistair Brownlee (GBR) 2340
10th – Jonathan Brownlee (GBR) 2186
Biggest rankings mover: Eric Lagerstrom (USA) – from 103rd to 66th (254 points).
Women
1st – Gwen Jorgensen (USA) 4000
2nd – Katie Zaferes (USA) 3700
3rd – Sarah True (USA) 3322
4th – Andrea Hewitt (NZL) 3131
5th – Rachel Klamer (NED) 2196
6th – Vicky Holland (GBR) 2126
7th – Barbara Riveros (CHI) 2118
8th – Aileen Reid (IRL) 2078
9th – Flora Duffy (BER) 2009
10th – Rebecca Robisch (GER) 1929
Biggest rankings mover: Emma Jackson (AUS) – from 63rd to 40th (667 points).
The full Columbia Threadneedle Rankings can be accessed here.
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It’s official – Ironman has been acquired by Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group for $650m, joining football club Atlético Madrid on the latter’s roster of investments in Western sports enterprises.
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The news broke early this morning, and Wanda Group assumes Ironman’s existing – unspecified – debts from current owner Providence Equity Partners.
The finish chute at the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii (Paul Phillips)
Ironman CEO Andrew Messick said: “Wanda Group’s acquisition of Ironman marks another exciting chapter and opportunity for the future growth of Ironman after seven very successful years of ownership by Providence Equity Partners.
“Wanda Group is a global-minded organisation that shares our desire for excellence and continued growth, particularly in Asia. We are delighted to be part of the Wanda Group family of companies and are excited about the future of Ironman as we continue to provide life changing race experiences for athletes of all levels from their first step to the finish line.”
There’s certainly plenty of headroom for growth in the Far East – just 100 Chinese athletes have completed an Ironman race in the history of triathlon, a company spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal.
Industry watcher Gary Roethenbaugh, founder of news source Triathlon Business, believes the acquisition represents a “major shift in gear” for the M-Dot brand.
“While it is understood that it will be business as usual for the Ironman team in Tampa, Florida – with Ironman now part of the rapidly expanding Wanda Group, we can expect to see a flurry of activity for Ironman and IM 70.3 in the Asia region in particular.”
During the announcement, Ironman also revealed it expects to generate revenues of $183m in 2015, and has increased revenue at a compound annual growth rate of 21% over the past four years.
More information and comment to follow…
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It’s the end of an era for ‘The Caveman’ – South Africa’s Conrad Stoltz says he’ll retire after Xterra UK this weekend (29-30 August).
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>>> Is there any stopping ‘Caveman’ Conrad Stoltz?
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“I’m pretty sure this it,” says the four-time Xterra world champ. “I don’t have regrets. I’m 41, I had a fantastic career, have lots of memories and have done a lot of neat stuff.”
The most successful off-road triathlete ever, Stoltz has racked up 51 career championship wins (53 if you count Buffelspoort cross triathlon) and seven world titles, including four Xterra world titles and three ITU Cross Triathlon world titles.
Stoltz says the best thing that ever happened was the birth of his baby girl Xena in the off-season. “She changed our lives in a huge way. Everything else pales in comparison now that we have this little bundle. My retirement means we can really spend a lot of time with her and we literally have her with us all the time. Being a Dad is indescribable. It’s awesome.”
Hugely respected for his fearless downhill skills, fierce competitive streak and warm demeanour, Stoltz will be hoping to bow out with a win at Vachery Estate in Surrey this weekend – he won last year’s event by nearly three minutes.
Over the past 15 years racing Xterra, The Caveman has become known as one of the most approachable and generous athletes in the sport – from signing autographs and providing simple words of advice to full-blown mentoring gigs and visiting sick kids at children’s hospitals.
#TBT The story of my first XTERRA: http://t.co/zOAwuM9Apo @XTERRAoffroad
— Conrad Stoltz (@ConradStoltz) August 27, 2015
And the secret to his longevity? His Dad said: “I once showed him a dung beetle that was trying to roll his ball of dung up a very steep incline. The ball kept rolling back, but the beetle kept retrieving the ball and pressing forward. I said to Conrad, ‘That’s how one should live one’s life. One never gives up.’”
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No sooner had Ironman revealed its new owner this morning than the comments started flying in on social media.
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>>> Ironman bought by China’s Dalian Wanda group for $650
No surprise really – it’s triathlon’s biggest corporate deal yet, and involves arguably the sport’s biggest player, a brand that has gone from a handful of endurance enthusiasts in Hawaii to a global business worth $650m.
So what do triathletes and other commentators think? Well some are (understandably) concerned this might lead to a rise in entry prices:
Others wonder if there will be a change at feed stations:
And Joe Richer hopes it doesn’t mean any changes for the famous finish line chute salute:
More than one reader thinks it’ll be ‘business as usual’:
Killian Long points out there’s still a long way for triathlon to go in China:
Tony Ball hopes the live coverage will benefit:
Finally, Tim Tansley says now might be the time to start investing in tattoo removal firms:
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Yorkshire-born trio the ‘Wild Swimming Brothers’ have become the first people ever to swim the length of the River Eden from its source in the Cumbrian mountains to the sea – a journey of 145km.
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The three siblings Jack, Calum and Robbie Hudson took nine days to complete the challenge and finished last Sunday (23 August) in the Solway Firth, just south of Whitehaven.
It wasn’t all smiles though – middle brother Calum, 25, picked up an ear infection in the latter stages of the challenge and struggled. “I thought the hardest thing was getting up early and putting on a cold wetsuit. But then I got a really bad ear infection about two days ago. So I found out that the combination of earache and spending 10 hours a day in cold river water were my two least favourite things.”
Berlin-based eldest brother Robbie, 27, added that the swim had been “a challenge”. Youngest brother Jack, 23, said it was an “incredible achievement”. The three siblings were on home territory though – they grew up in the Cumbrian village of Langwathby, mere metres from the River Eden.
“From its bubbling source in the mountains of Mallerstang, through the steep gorges and cascades of Hell Gill, past our old family home at Langwathby, the deep sandstone ravines and rapids of Armathwaite, to the wide floodplains of Carlisle and out into the mud flats, estuary and sands of the Solway Firth and the Irish Sea, we swam, scrambled, crawled, walked, jumped, climbed and floated every single inch,” said the brothers afterwards.
Their exploits have already raised £2,200 for The Swimming Trust, and are aiming for a total of £2,500 (donate here). Every penny of the money raised will be put back into swimming through setting up a bursary scheme in Cumbria to help more swimming teachers gain their level 2 qualification.
Three key takeaways
For all 220 readers inspired by the Wild Swimming Brothers’ exploits, they offer three tips for planning your own river swim:
1. Trek to the source of a river, It’s fascinating, bizarre and will give you a totally different perspective on them. The Eden bubbles up from the ground at the top of a mountain, a deep dark hole belching up murky brown water which flowed through a deep soggy bog before cascading down a ravine, truly awesome!
2. Never underestimate the power of duct tape.
3. There are adventures to be had in the places you least expect.
“We would like to say HUGE thank you’s to every single person that has helped, supported, fed, advised, housed, donated, given us fresh milk, kayaked, swam with us and been part of this adventure,” say Robbie, Calum and Jack.
“We’d like to give a special thank you to James Silson who was alongside us every single mile, we couldn’t have done it without him, an honorary brother! Also David Ronton who kayaked five full days with us and kept us motivated and supplied us with whisky.
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“Also our Dad Ralph Hudson who was a crucial support car, all round fixer and cartographer. Finally our Mum Tina Wild who appeared countless times out of nowhere to rescue us when we were at our lowest points and in dire need of food and support. Truly a team effort and something we will never forget!”
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Depuis le 23 septembre, Paris accueille les stars de la mode et les fashionistas à l’occasion de la Fashion Week prêt-à-porter femme printemps-été 2020. Mercredi 23, la maison Guy Laroche organisait son défilé au Pavillon Vendôme.
Lors de ce défilé, il fallait compter sur la présence de plusieurs stars comme l’actrice américaine Eva Longoria. L’ex-star de Desperate Housewives, tout de noir vêtue, a posé ses bagages à Paris, car elle-même doit prochainement défiler pour L’Oréal. Elle a pris la pose souriante et décontractée avec Richard René (directeur artistique de Guy Laroche) et était accompagnée de son coiffeur Ken Paves et de sa styliste Charlene E Roxborough Konsker. Eva Longoria, qui voyage dans la capitale française avec son fils de 1 an et demi Santiago – le duo s’est d’ailleurs offert une promenade sur la place Vendôme –, a ensuite rejoint son chic hôtel, le Mandarin oriental.
Aux côtés de l’actrice, on a aussi pu voir l’ancienne Miss France Alicia Aylies 2017, très sensuelle dans un haut noir transparent laissant voir qu’elle avait laissé son soutien-gorge à la maison. Parmi les autres invités, il y avait aussi l’ex-reine de beauté Malika Ménard (Miss France 2010), Patricia Contreras, Sofiia Manousha, Françoise Fabian…
La maison Guy Laroche consacrait sa collection à la proxénète française Madame Claude et à ses filles “libres“. “J’ai trouvé intéressant de faire un clin d’oeil à tous ces garçons, ces filles qui travaillent de leur corps, qui sont souvent dénigrés, et surtout de parler d’une époque de liberté. Il ne faut pas mélanger les choses : #metoo, c’est sur des gens qui sont contraints, c’est de l’agression sexuelle. Ici, ce sont des gens qui décident de vendre leur corps, c’est un libre choix. C’est un pied de nez à l’époque dans laquelle on vit, où on ne peut plus rien dire, ni faire. Je trouve cela gênant“, a déclaré à l’AFP le directeur artistique. Le pianiste de jazz franco-israélien Yaron Herman, qui a fait une création musicale pour Guy Laroche, a joué pendant le défilé.
Guy Laroche. Paris. #pfw
I love running around Paris with my little man…..B is for Baston!
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Following yesterday’s news that Ironman has been bought by a Chinese conglomerate, many commentators have predicted further price rises or worse for the iconic triathlon brand. 220 columnist Tim Heming mulls it over.
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I suppose you can still include chasing a Double Gloucester down Cooper’s Hill, snorkelling a few bogs in Llanwrtyd Wells, and maybe even pulling on the oars in the lung-busting Varsity Boat Race, but to find a sport where the Corinthian ideals of amateurism still survive at the highest level is no easy task.
M-dot tattoos are just one example of the brand loyalty Ironman enjoys (image: iStockPhoto)
Sport is now business. Big business. And in that respect, at least, you could say that Ironman is leading the way. In the USA, triathlon is Ironman, yet Ironman is also a for-profit private company – not a federation – as we are constantly reminded by countless examples of its revenue-optimising decisions.
Even so, selling bathroom scales (‘body composition monitors’) and online coaching accreditation pale against the latest example of capitalist intent, this week’s sale to Chinese corporate behemoth Dalian Wanda Group for £650million plus a mopping up of debts. It marks the bumper return former owners Providence Equity Partners (PEP) were looking for, yet is little more than chump change to the fast-diversifying Wanda Group whose assets totalled $86.6billion last year.
Leading from the front
Already the world’s largest property developer and cinema chain operator, Wanda has shown a penchant for sport in 2015, picking up a stake in Spanish football side, the 2014 Champions League finalists Atlético Madrid, and Swiss sports marketing agency Infront, which holds the broadcast rights to the next two World Cups.
Whether the new boss, 60-year-old Wian Jianlin, will lead from the front and have a go himself as CEO Andrew Messick did remains to be seen, but given Jianlin spent 17 years in the People’s Liberation Army, I cannot imagine an Ironman holding too many fears. Whether it also paves the way for 50 professional women in Kona is perhaps more of a hot topic for discussion, and an anomaly where the new owners could score quick public relations success by rectifying.
Chrissie Wellington racing in Kona
On social forums there has been some agitation at the prospect of Far Eastern governance dragging premier long distance triathlon still further from its spiritual home in Hawaii. But this is a changing world. In our own capital city, foreign investment has stampeded at every opportunity.
Look around you. From Arsenal Football Club’s stadium to The ExCel convention centre in Docklands – home to the biggest triathlon in the world. Wanda itself is already financing a five-star hotel next to the Thames costing $1.1billion and has bought up a UK-based maker of luxury yachts used in Bond movies.
What do these examples have in common? First class service and a few quibbles over the price to the consumer… Pretty much on par with what the PEP version of Ironman delivered, then.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose?
Ironman has changed hands for money before and the rumour mill was in overdrive with takeover talk, fed by Messick’s constant referencing of global growth as a carrot for suitors every time he stood behind a microphone. In the USA, the triathlon market is flatlining, in Western Europe and Australasia it is mature, but in the Far East, South America, Eastern Europe and even the Middle East – as we know from the stirrings in Bahrain – there is strong appetite.
As these societies develop and become increasingly cash-rich and diet-poor, the bucket-list goal of Ironman looks a tempting prospect. Without rapid expansion it will take a few years to retrieve the initial investment, so expect more race choice in exotic locations that will see pasty Brits struggle with heat acclimatisation and become neurotic over the local cuisine.
Racing along Tenby harbour at Ironman Wales
For the average UK age-grouper, devoted to the backstreets of Bolton or the extended transitions of Tenby, it’s unlikely much will differ, at least in the short term. Perhaps the new owners will want to put down a marker, but when you have a brand that customers are prepared to tattoo on to their calves, it would be foolish to test that loyalty. Prices will be dictated by demand and even with Ironman’s aggressive business tactics there is no shortage of non-WTC events available to keep soaraway entry fees in check.
If you are of the calibre to line up in Hawaii though, you might find qualifying becoming a little trickier. With further expansion of the 250 or so races the Word Triathlon Corporation runs, it will be increasingly difficult to win a spot on the hallowed Kona pier.
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La vie privée des stars fascine leurs millions de fans ! Ceux de Demi Moore se délectent des révélations de l’actrice dans ses mémoires. Elle y révèle notamment avoir trompé son premier mari, la veille de leur mariage…
Demi Moore (née Demi Harmon) avait 17 ans quand elle a épousé le chanteur Freddy Moore (29 ans à l’époque), le 8 février 1980. L’actrice et auteure revient sur cette union dans son livre, intitulé Inside Out: A Memoir et sorti le 24 septembre 2019. Elle révèle avoir eu une liaison extra-conjugale la veille de la cérémonie.
“La veille de notre mariage, j’ai appelé un mec que j’avais rencontré sur un plateau de tournage plutôt que de travailler sur mes voeux” explique Demi Moore. “Je me suis faufilée hors de ma soirée d’enterrement de vie de jeune fille et suis allée chez lui.“
Elle ajoute : “Pourquoi ai-je fait ça ? Pourquoi ne suis-je pas allée voir l’homme avec qui je m’engageais à passer le reste de ma vie pour faire part de mes doutes ? Parce que je n’arrivais pas à admettre le fait que je mariais pour ne pas penser à faire le deuil de mon père. Parce que j’avais le sentiment qu’il n’y a pas la place pour remettre en question ce que j’avais déjà lancé. Je ne pouvais pas sortir de ce mariage, mais je pouvais le saboter.“
Le père adoptif de Demi Moore, Dan Guynes (son père biologique, Charles Harmon, a quitté sa mère quand elle avait deux mois), est mort en octobre 1980. L’homme s’est suicidé à l’âge de 37 ans.
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Middle-distance racing’s finest pro and age-group athletes descended on Zell-Am-See in Austria today for the tenth edition of the Ironman 70.3 World Championships and its debut sojourn in Europe. And, after wins for Germany’s Sebastian Kienle in 2012 and ’13 and Spanish superstar Javier Gomez in 2014, Europe’s hold on the men’s title was maintained, with 2015 being Germany’s Jan Frodeno’s turn to top the podium.
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In the women’s race, reigning champ and Swiss star Daniela Ryf went into the race as the favourite and was dominant throughout, leading on the bike leg and run to cross the line in 4:11:34 (and 30th overall) to maintain her grip on the 70.3 world title.
IRONMAN ROYALTY
Under blue skies and in increasingly oppressive heat, the World Championship race kicked-off at 10:45am in the crystal blue Zell-Am-See lake, flanked by mountainous peaks, thousands of local and international spectators and Ironman Hawaii royalty Paula Newby-Fraser and Heather Fuhr on the starting pontoon, and 48-year-old Natascha Badmann on the race course.
The men’s field had the biggest strength in depth, with 2008 Olympic champion and the current Ironman Europe title holder, Germany’s 194cm Jan Frodeno, towering over his race rivals on the lakeside starting ramp. Alongside him were two fellow former ITU stars, the reigning 70.3 world champ Javier Gomez and Britain’s great hope for the men’s title, Tim Don. After five wins from six middle-distance races in 2015, Don was looking to go better than his 70.3 worlds bronze in 2014, but his prep was disrupted by a nasty bike crash in Boulder last week which left him with 30 stitches in his face and a thumb split in two.
Don, nonetheless, exited the 1.9km lake swim on the coattails of Gomez and Frodeno, with the reigning Ironman world champion Sebastian Kienle a couple of minutes in arrears. Onto the bike, however, and the Germany’s two-wheel tri dominance was asserted, with the top six spots halfway through the 90km bike leg all occupied by the nation (Andi Bocherer leading Frodeno, Andreas Drietz, Nils Frommhold, Michael Raelert and Kienle).
After America’s Lauren Brandon broke the 70.3 Worlds swim record in 22:53mins, the women’s race saw Ryf lead throughout the bike leg, entering T2 with a wide deficit over the field. Brit hopes were pinned on Jodie Swallow, who suffered a training ride crash on Saturday while recee’ing the bike course. It was left to Holly Lawrence, Susie Cheetham, Parys Edwards and EK Lidbury to carry the Brit flag.
KONA STATEMENTS
As the men approached Zell-Am-See after 90km of riding in the Austrian hills, Drietz and Frodeno had over a 2mins advantage over the chasers (Frodeno’s 2:09:04 bike split was 50secs faster than Kienle’s). The two loop half-marathon run hugged the Zell-Am-See lakeside for nearly all the duartion, with a brief interlude into the town. With his run speed honed from years of ITU racing, once Frodeno was in front there seemed to be only one victor, with the race compere pretty much handing Frodeno the victory 20mins before the Cologne born Olympic champ crossed the line after 3:51:19 of racing. After his Ironman Europe win over Kienle, here was another major statement from Frodo ahead of October’s Ironman worlds in Kona.
Following Frodo home were Kienle and a visibly dejected Gomez (who’d been ill during the week) in a day to remember for Germany’s middle-distance stars. The women’s race for victory also turned into something of a procession, with Ryf dominant throughout and never looking like giving up her 70.3 world title. The Swiss would cross the line in 4:11:34, some 10mins ahead of Canada’s Heather Wurtele and Anja Beranek of Germany, and again lay down a marker for Ironman worlds glory on 10 October.
For the famous Brit names it was a day to forget in Austria, with Swallow dropping out early on the bike and Tim Don suffering a puncture and two penalty cards before dropping out. How the day of woes affects their Kona preparation is unclear, but both are well-versed in getting knocked down and picking themselves up again. Top Brit male was Ritchie Nicholls in 27th.
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