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6 unusual facts about Triathlon


Bill Wambach

He is one of the two stars of a feature-length documentary film by Andrew Napier called Mary and Bill, featuring Wambach and Mary Stroebe, a 90-year-old woman who runs in Triathlons.

Cazones de Herrera

The National Triathlon of Cazones is a major annual sporting event in the north of Veracruz, sponsored by the municipality and the federal government.

Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah

After completing the cross-country trek in Ghana, the CAF invited him to participate in the 2002 Triathlon Challenge in San Diego, CA.

Interlochen State Park

Also popular at Interlochen State Park is the Three Discipline Triathlon Event hosted each July.

Maximilian Schwetz

Maximilian Schwetz (born January 9, 1991 in Erlangen, Germany) is a German triathlete and Member of the German national triathlon team.

New Hampshire Route 107

NH 107 between U.S. Route 3 and Leavitt Road in Laconia is part of the Timberman 70.3 Triathlon bicycle course.


2007 Ironman World Championship

The 2007 Ford Ironman World Championship was a triathlon race held on October 13, 2007 in Kailua, Hawaii County, Hawaii.

2012 ITU Team Triathlon World Championships

The 2012 ITU Triathlon Mixed Relay World Championship was held in Stockholm, Sweden on 26 August 2012.

With the help of 2012 Olympic Triathlon bronze medalist Jonathan Brownlee, Great Britain was able to defend its 2011 Team Triathlon World Championship.

2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Nearby are the Palermo Woods, a highly popular retreat for porteños and visitors alike, which will be the triathlon venue.

Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority

It is also a headline sponsor of the Abu Dhabi Yacht Show and actively supports the World Rally Championship through its BP-Ford Team Abu Dhabi alliance, which also extended to sponsorship of reigning Red Bull Air Race champion Hannes Arch and international powerboat and triathlon squads.

Alessia Orla

Triathlon Club Nantais, however, does enumerate her among its elite triathletes together with two Italian guest stars, Charlotte Bonin and Annamaria Mazzetti.

Alexander Bryukhankov

In 2010, Bryukhankov represented Mulhouse Olympique Tri. At the opening triathlon in Dunkirk (23 May 2010), Bryukhankov placed 21st and was the second best of his club (the other two triathlètes classants l'équipe: Valentin Mesheryakov: 19th, Francesc Godoy: 47th).

Anastasiya Polyanskaya

In 2011 Polyanskaya represented Saint Raphaël Triathlon in the prestigious French Club Championship Series, like her husband Dmitry Polyanski, her brother-in-law Igor Polyanski and Igor's fiancée Lyubov Ivanovskaya.

Andrey Bryukhankov

Andrey's elder brother is the Russian Triathlon Champion of the year 2011 Alexander Bryukhankov.

Annamaria Mazzetti

Annamaria Mazzetti (born 25 August 1988 in Magenta, Lombardy, Provincia di Milano) is an Italian professional triathlete and 2009 National Champion in three categories (Duathlon Sprint, Triathlon Sprint, Olympic Distance).

Armando Barcellos

Armando Luís Barcellos da Silva (born February 6, 1966 in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro) is an athlete from Brazil, who competes in triathlon.

Athletics at the 2010 Asian Games

The 42 track and field events on the programme were hosted at the Aoti Main Stadium (Guangdong Olympic Stadium) while the marathons and racewalking competitions took place around the city's University Town (sharing a venue with the triathlon).

Axel Zeebroek

Zeebroek made his international debut in triathlon when he won the Belgian Junior Triathlon Championships in 1998, and finished sixth at the European Junior Championships in Velden on the same year.

Banyoles

Each year a triathlon Premium European Cup (or even a World Cup in 2012) is held in Banyoles, the hometown of the Spanish 2011 Champion Carolina Routier.

Bárbara Riveros

In 2011, Riveros represents Tri Val de Grey and won the opening triathlon in Nice (24 April 2011), and she placed third at the second Grand Prix triathlon in Dunkirk (22 May 2011) behind Andrea Hewitt and Emma Moffatt.

Ben Bright

After a spell of training several outstanding swimmers, including an Olympian and Hong Kong age group record breakers, Bright accepted an opportunity to coach triathlon at Loughborough University in England.

Ben Darwin

Whilst he France, Darwin was also in training for his first Iron Man triathlon, which he completed in Port Macquarie in April 2008.

Boardman Bikes

Alistair Brownlee: Olympic Champion 2012, 2011 & 2009 ITU Triathlon World Champion, 2010 & 2011 ETU Triathlon Champion

Caroline Steffen

She moved to Australia and eventually quit her job to focus on triathlon training in Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast.

Charlotte Morel

Like e.g. Emmie Charayron, David Hauss and Laurent Vidal, Morel is also a member of the French Military Triathlon Team (Equipe de France militaire de triathlon EFM), which she joined in 2008 and which in summer 2010 moved from Montpellier to the Ecoles militaires de Draguignan (EMD) in Morel's native town.

As usual, Morel ended the season with the Indian Ocean Triathlon in Mauritius (23 November 2013), winning the gold medal together with her fiancé Frédéric Belaubre.

Christiane Pilz

Pilz reached into the international stage in triathlon, when she placed twelfth at the 1999 ETU Triathlon European Championships in Funchal, Madeira, and in 2000, she claimed her first medal at the FISU World University Triathlon Championships in Tiszaujvaros, Hungary.

Clash of the Codes

Steve Gurney: Steve Gurney is a New Zealand multisport and triathlon athlete famous for winning the "Coast to Coast" event a record 9 times.

Daniel Fontana

Following his second Olympic participation, Fontana opted to run for the long-distance triathlon, and competed at the 2009 Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Clearwater, Florida, United States, where he finished second behind Germany's Michael Raelert with a time of 1:12:00.

Delphine Py-Bilot

Since 2003 Delphine Py represented the club Beauvais Triathlon in the prestigious French Club Championship Series Lyonnaise des Eaux and, apart from Charlotte Morel and Delphine Pelletier she was the only French triathlete in the female team of this club, which almost exclusively relied on its international guest stars like Andrea Hewitt and in 2009 won both the Club Championship Series and the national Club Championship at Gruissan.

Dmitry Polyanski

In 2011, Dmitry, his wife Anastasiya, his brother Igor and Igor's girl friend Lyubov Ivanovskaya will represent Saint-Raphaël Triathlon in the Club Championship Series Lyonnaise des Eaux.

Dreieich-Buchschlag station

During the summer months (May 1 to September/October) each year, Waldseebus (OF-Line 65) runs to and from Langener Waldsee, a popular Baggersee (lake established in an abandoned quarry) used as part of the Ironman Germany triathlon competition.

Emilio D'Aquino

He was also selected for the Italian team in triathlon, and guaranteed his qualifying berth for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, along with his teammate Daniel Fontana, a former competitor from Argentina at the previous games in Athens.

Emma Snowsill

She was also the winner of the 2005 and 2006 Lifetime Fitness Triathlons in Minneapolis, and won the Noosa International Triathlon winner three times.

Enduroman

The triathlon starts with an 87 mile run (140km) from London's Marble Arch to Dover on the Kent coast, then a cross-channel swim (shortest distance 21 miles/33,8km) to the French coast, and finishes with a 180 mile (289,7km) bike from Calais to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

Fiorella D'Croz Brusatin

Fiorella D'Croz Brusatin (born April 19, 1979 in Cali) is an athlete from Colombia, who competes in triathlon.

International Child Amputee Network

Sarah Reinertsen, American and the first female leg amputee to complete the Ironman Triathlon World Championship

Internationale Fachmesse für Sportartikel und Sportmode

Since its inception in 1970, the ISPO takes place once a year (end of January or early February) at Neue Messe München where the following categories are being displayed: Outdoor, Skiing, Boarding, Running, Fitness, Sportswear, Beachwear, Teamsports, Soccer, Nordic Sports, Biking, Racket, Triathlon, and Kids.

Kaitlin Sandeno

In September, 2008, Sandeno teamed up with Anna Kournikova and Katya Myers to win the female celebrity category of the 2008 Malibu Triathlon.

Kirsten Sweetland

At the Grand Final in La Baule (Triathlon Audencia) on 18 September 2010, she placed 8th and was the best triathlete of her club, which placed 5th thanks to the guest stars Sweetland and Aileen Morrison.

Lyubov Polyanskaya

In 2011 Ivanovskaya represented Saint Raphaël Triathlon, like Igor Polyanski and Igor's brother Dmitry Polyanski and his wife Anastasiya Polyanskaya.

Maria Morales

Maria Carmenza Morales Rendón (born July 21, 1966 in Itagüí, Antioquia) is an athlete from Colombia, who competes in triathlon.

Marino Vanhoenacker

On 3 July 2011, he broke the world record for the full triathlon at the Ironman Triathlon at Klagenfurt in Austria, finishing after 7 hours, 45 minutes and 58 seconds, beating Luc Van Lierde's 1997 time of 7h50m27s.

Mike Barton and Jim Steele

The team entered the 2002 Triathlon Series tournament teaming with Yuji Nagata in the fall of 2002 where the team became the runner ups losing to Osamu Nishimura, Manabu Nakanishi, and Yutaka Yoshie in the finals.

Simon Lessing

Lessing competed in the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon held annually in San Francisco Bay.

Superfrog Triathlon

SUPERFROG is a half-Ironman distance triathlon held annually and based on the Silver Strand State Beach, Coronado, California.

The World Triathlon

The World Triathlon consists of a 275 mile (about 442.6 kilometers) swim along the length of the River Thames and across the English Channel, then a 8,875 mile bike ride from Calais, France to Calcutta, India.

Triathlon at the 2013 Island Games

Triathlon, for the 2013 Island Games, were held at Clearwater Beach on St. David's Island, Bermuda.

Zita Szabó

She claimed the bronze medal at the 1991 European Youth Triathlon Championships in Germany, and reached into the international junior level at the 1992 ITU Triathlon World Championships in Huntsville, Alabama.


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