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Olympic Mixed Relay Triathlon ready to take over the streets of Paris
03/08/24 - After Wednesday and Day 5 of the Games was renamed Triathlon Day at the Paris 2024 Olympics, on 5 August, 15 teams will be ready to throw down some high-octane swim-bike-run entertainment all over again,... |
Full StoryParis 2024 breakdown: where the men’s Olympic Triathlon can be won or lost
26/07/24 - With the men’s individual Olympic triathlon races set to take to the streets of Paris on 30 July, we take a closer look at each of the disciplines and which of the 55 men lining up on the Seine on 31... |
Full StoryWorld Triathlon Paths to Paris: Eloi Adjavon
27/06/24 - I love it when a plan comes together. In many ways, the classic line from the A-Team applies to every triathlete set to start in Paris as each has seen their projects come to fruition. However, one... |
Full StoryThe final June update: which triathletes have qualified for the Paris Olympics?
24/06/24 - The athletes that have earned the right to start in the triathlon events at the Paris Olympic Games are now locked in. Over the past week, the last few teams have put the finishing touches to their... |
Full StoryWorld Triathlon presents: Dare to Dream
19/06/24 - World Triathlon proudly presents the trailer for the forthcoming docu-series DARE TO DREAM, being premiered on Sunday 30 June at 7pm BST / 8pm CEST on the official YouTube and Facebook channels as well as... |
Full StoryThe Races to Paris: Where Team Great Britain Stand
22/05/24 - How do you solve a problem like Britain? There will be voices in almost every country that will claim that they are the envy of the world but when it comes to the British women’s triathlon team, it may... |
Full StoryHow the Paris Olympic Triathlon New Flag races look with one month to go
26/04/24 - In one month, the race will be over. The Olympic qualification window will close on 27 May 2024 and the outcome of all the striving, battling and dreaming will be clear. For almost two years, the best... |
Full Story100 Days to go: the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
16/04/24 - Wednesday 17 April marks exactly 100 days until the opening of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. That means 104 days to the individual men’s triathlon, 105 to the women’s and 110 to the Mixed Relay. The... |
Full StoryMixed Relay ranking deadline day confirms first teams for Paris 2024 Olympic Mixed Relay
25/03/24 - Monday 25 March signals triathlon’s first concrete qualification milestone on the path to Paris 2024, with the confirmation of nine teams going to the Games. Each of these National Federation is thus... |
Full StoryWorld Triathlon Podcast #88: Vincent Luis - out of the cage
29/02/24 - Reunited full-time with his coach Joel Filiol, back on extended training camps with nothing more to think about than form and focus, the enormous carrot of a home Olympics now just five months away, the... |
Full StoryThe talk from Tokyo: With Olympic medallists and athletes - women’s race
28/07/21 - Reactions and reflections with the Olympic medallists and athletes after the dramatic Tokyo 2020 Olympic Triathlon individual women’s competition on Tuesday morning at Odaiba Bay, Tokyo. Flora Duffy... |
Full StoryZaferes, Rappaport, Knibb eye USA’s second Olympic Triathlon gold
15/07/21 - Three very different racing styles, three serious medal contenders, the USA’s Taylor Knibb, Katie Zaferes and Summer Rappaport will all be heading to Tokyo knowing they have the potential to deliver an... |
Full StoryTokyo 2020 race numbers allocated to the 38 National Federations heading to the Games
02/07/21 - The race number allocation draw for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Triathlon races took place on Friday 2 July live on TriathlonLIVE.tv, allocating the transition spots for the 38 National Federations to have... |
Full StoryGomez-Islinger shows perfect timing to win first gold in Arzachena
29/05/21 - A sun-baked World Triathlon Cup Arzachena saw 57 elite women line up for one of the toughest sprint-distance courses ever seen on the circuit, and it was to be Marlene Gomez-Islinger’s day as the German... |
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Olympic Qualification on the line at Friday’s Mixed Relay in Lisbon
19/05/21 - Three days of World Triathlon action get underway in Lisbon on Friday, with the first-ever Mixed Relay Olympic Qualification event set to decide three more teams on the Tokyo 2020 start line over a... |
Full Story Tokyo Olympic Games – 100 Days To Go
13/04/21 - Wednesday 14 April marks 100 days until the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, one of the most highly anticipated Games in the history of the world’s biggest sporting event. A year on from its... |
Full StoryNicola Spirig on the magic of the Olympics and one of the all-time finishes at London 2012
30/07/20 - In the week that the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games was due to crown not just the next Men’s and Women’s Olympic Champions but also award the first ever Mixed Team Relay medals, the World Triathlon podcast... |
Full StoryTeam France deliver dramatic Mixed Relay gold on final day of Tokyo Test Event
18/08/19 - It was a fitting end to four days of unforgettable action at the Tokyo Test Event on Sunday with Team France – anchored by Dorian Coninx – surging to gold after the 2019 WTS Bermuda champion edged a... |
Full StoryBirtwhistle wears the one as men set to tackle Tokyo Test Event
13/08/19 - The morning of Friday 16 August, in the Odaiba region of Japan’s capital city, the Elite men will take to the start line for the hotly anticipated 2019 Tokyo ITU World Olympic Qualification Event.... |
Full StoryRio Olympics: Men’s discipline strengths
15/08/16 - As Jonathan Brownlee noted in an interview with his local paper last month, the Rio course is suited to a strong all-around triathlete. A beach swim start at Copacabana, followed by the hilly and... |
Full StoryHow to watch triathlon at the Olympics
05/08/16 - The 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games open today! In our fifth edition int he Olympic Games, we couldn’t be more pumped to see the world’s fastest triathletes swim, bike and run their way to Olympic... |
Full StoryOlympic triathlon start lists revealed
01/08/16 - With the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games set to open this Friday, the ITU has released the men’s and women’s triathlon numbered start lists. The men’s Olympic triathlon will be contested on August... |
Full StoryITU engages fans ahead of Rio Olympics
19/07/16 - With 30 days to go until the first race at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, ITU has today launched the social media campaign “ThisIsTriathlon” to get the world talking about triathlon. While... |
Full Story United States win first Mixed Relay World title
17/07/16 - In practically a line-to-line dominate performance, the United States crushed the 2016 ITU Triathlon Mixed Relay World Champions in Hamburg for its first-ever World Championship Title. While the U.S.... |
Full Story2019 ITU Grand Final awarded to Lausanne
14/06/16 - ITU today named Lausanne as the host city for the 31st edition of the ITU World Triathlon Grand Final in 2019. “It is a pleasure to announce that Lausanne, the “Olympic Capital”, has been awarded... |
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