Saturday, February 15, 2014

World Triathlon Cape Town 2014



Check out the promotional video for the World Triathlon Cape Town 2014. Entries for the ITU World Triathlon Cape Town race is now open. 

You can just visit their site at http://capetown.triathlon.org to register.

The even will be well attended and expect the world's best to compete.

World Triathlon Cape Town is the first ITU WTS triathlon event will be the first in Africa and will be a weekend Festival of Sport that is scheduled for 26, 27 April 2014 at the V&A Waterfront Cape Town. The race will be Olympic distance of a 1500m swim, 40Km cycle and 10km run.

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Geelong triathlon Results

Geelong triathlon Results, triathlon, ironman

Under a brutal weather heat and wind of Australia three time IRONMAN World champion Craig Alexander was victorious in Geelong 70.3 2014. It was a battle between Craig Alexander and fellow Australian Tim Reed.

Alexander and Reed took control of the race at the 60km mark of the bike leg they built a 1:25 buffer over Hodge with just under a minute back to Robertson.

Sunday, February 2, 2014

A 21-year old Triathlete collapses and dies after triathlon

A 21-year-old Nobby man collapses and dies after a triathlon, he could not be revived after he collapsed righ after a race at Goondiwindi.

Peter Crothers, a committee member of Hell of the West triathlon committee said that the man had just finished the race this morning and was going to the recovery area when he suddenly collapsed.

Fellow athletes and the medical staff rushed to his aid, and was taken to Goondiwindi Hospital.

More than 700 athletes took part in the race, which includes 2km swim, 80km bike ride and 20km run.

Goondiwindi police said the cause of the man's death was under investigation.

Name Country Swim Bike Run Finish Div. Rank Overall Rank
ALEXANDER, Craig Australia 00:25:15 02:16:54 01:20:40 04:06:00 1 1
REED, Tim Australia 00:25:20 02:17:01 01:24:12 04:09:34 2 2
KAHLEFELDT, Brad Australia 00:25:08 02:24:10 01:18:29 04:10:42 3 3
ROBERTSON, Peter Australia 00:25:12 02:20:08 01:25:02 04:13:54 4 4
MUNRO, Casey Australia 00:25:11 02:24:42 01:22:24 04:15:21 5 5
WHITMORE, Luke New Zealand 00:29:20 02:22:00 01:21:51 04:16:30 6 6
HODGE, James Australia 00:25:05 02:18:49 01:30:19 04:17:10 7 7
RODGERS, Tom Australia 00:28:50 02:18:59 01:29:59 04:20:59 8 8
VANSTEELANT, Joerie Belgium 00:32:45 02:20:44 01:25:19 04:22:07 9 9
HUME, Sam Australia 00:25:53 02:27:28 01:24:36 04:22:21 1 10
MOFFATT, Emma Australia 00:26:49 02:32:29 01:28:28 04:30:58 1 11
CLARK, Matt Australia 00:28:23 02:32:34 01:28:55 04:33:17 1 12
DWYER, Sam Australia 00:32:21 02:30:58 01:26:36 04:33:53 1 13
HILL, Nathan Australia 00:31:51 02:31:32 01:27:24 04:34:42 2 14
WILLIAMS, Benjamin United States 00:30:23 02:31:43 01:30:36 04:35:45 10 15
GOLLACH, Amos Australia 00:31:43 02:31:43 01:28:33 04:36:01 1 16
BEVERIDGE, Samuel Australia 00:35:09 02:29:08 01:27:24 04:36:35 2 17
FERGUSON, Kevin Australia 00:29:18 02:26:56 01:39:12 04:39:57 1 18
ATKINS, Travis Australia 00:32:50 02:34:29 01:29:43 04:41:34 3 19
BALLINTINE, Tim Australia 00:29:22 02:42:40 01:25:48 04:41:45 2 20