Photos: World Triathlon By Kent Gray/Triathlon.kiwi World Triathlon’s premier series was always going to be a tricky proposition in this Olympic year as athletes walked the tightrope between qualifying as quickly as possible and then trying to peak physically for Paris. Now, the race to be crowned World Triathlon Championship Series (WTCS) champion has an altogether new dynamic with the cancellation of the first round post the XXXIII Olympiad. World Triathlon confirmed Friday that WTCS Montreal, originally scheduled on September 14-15 and to include a Mixed Relay, had been striked from the ..read more

Tri NZ Media Release… • Category finalists announced for resurrected Tri NZ Awards • Winners to be announced at Auckland Gala Dinner on April 27 • Supreme Awards named in honour of triathlon legends Erin Baker and Hamish Carter Finalists across 13 elite, age group and community categories revealed Auckland (April 19, 2024) – The finalists for the resurrected Tri NZ Awards have been unveiled. The winners of each of the 13 categories celebrating elite, age group and community excellence will be announced at the Tri NZ Gala Dinner at the AUT Millennium, the national governing body’s North Sh ..read more

Photos: Simon Dawson Photography By Kent Gray/Triathlon.kiwi Saturday’s World Triathlon Cup Wollongong is awash with athletes desperate for the most precious commodity in short course triathlon – Olympic Qualification Ranking points. For others, the lure of Paris is a consideration but not all consuming. Tag Olivia Thornbury to the latter group. The Invercargill doctor-in-training knows a start at the XXXIII Olympiad is a long-shot given that her Otago Medical School studies currently take precedence over triathlon. But the 25-year-old equally appreciates anything could happen between now and ..read more

Photos: supertri By Kent Gray/Triathlon.kiwi The league formerly known as Super League Triathlon has new venues and an extended schedule to go with its new name. supertri, lower case S intentional, released its season VI calendar overnight with Boston and Chicago set to launch the rebranded, five race series on back-to-back weekends in August. Traditional venues London and Toulouse return before the supertri finale in Saudi Arabia’s NEOM on November 3. Gone from last season’s schedule is Malibu but North America is well represented with supertri Boston (August 18) and supertri Chicago (Augus ..read more

Photos: T100Triathlon.com By Kent Gray/Triathlon.kiwiTenacity will be a defining metric for success during the inaugural T100 Triathlon World Tour season and on that score, count on Amelia Watkinson popping up again and again with results seemingly out of nowhere.   The Sunshine Coast-based Kiwi, arguably Oceania’s most under-rated mid-long distance triathlete, fought back from 16th out of the water during Saturday’s sweltering T100 Singapore to bike and run her way to an impressive 4th. It was yet another example of the 32-year-old’s consistency at the pointy end of global endurance raci ..read more

Photos: T100Triathlon.com By Kent Gray/Triathlon.kiwi Youri Keulen might have barged his way into pole-position for future T100 wildcards with his Singapore heroics but Kiwi Kyle Smith hopes he’s not too far behind on the wannabe grid after his own brave fight in the steamy conditions. The Taupo 25-year-old made the most of a wildcard start in the second round of the T100 Triathlon World Tour with 5th place at Marina Bay. Keulen claimed his maiden T100 victory with a bike attack and relentless run in the heat that had expert analyst Jan Frodeno comparing the Dutchman to the ‘Terminator’ durin ..read more

Photos: Simon Dawson Photography By Kent Gray/Triathlon.kiwi in Taupo Matt Hauser and Ellie Hoitink ensured Australia will lay claim to three of the season’s four major continental short course triathlon titles but there was ample Kiwi compensation at Sunday’s Oceania Standard Distance Championships in Taupo. Tayler Reid’s silver either side of Hauser and Brandon Copeland in the men’s race and bronze for Ainsley Thorpe behind Hoitink and Richelle Hill in the women’s battle at Wharewaka Point saw the duo crowned New Zealand Standard Distance champions for 2024. Thorpe’s Kiwi best 8th at World ..read more

By Kent Gray/Triathlon.kiwi A heat wave enveloping Southeast Asia and a reported training crash involving series leader Magnus Ditlev has added further intrigue to this weekend’s T100 races in Singapore featuring Kiwis Kyle Smith, Amelia Watkinson and Rebecca Clarke. The New Zealand trio will make their season bows in the second round of the PTO-World Triathlon sanctioned ‘T100 Triathlon World Tour’ and can expect temperatures nudging the late 20s C in Marina Bay. Watkinson, a contracted T100 athlete, and Clarke are first up in Saturday’s women’s race from 6:15pm NZT while the men go at ..read more

Photos: World Triathlon By Kent Gray/Triathlon New Zealand Taupo plays host to the final event of the Oceania Triathlon season on Sunday with the continental showpiece standard distance championships at Wharewaka Point. Top ranked Kiwis Hayden Wilde and Nicole van der Kaay are already offshore as the Paris Olympic Games loom ever larger on the horizon while in-form Dylan McCullough has withdrawn as a precautionary measure with an ankle niggle. Storylines abound, nonetheless. Here’s our preview to Sunday’s racing in and around Lake Taupo which, per long range forecasts, should be clear of the ..read more

Photo: Triathlon New Zealand By Kent Gray/Triathlon.kiwi The prospect of delays and ultimately the reduction of the triathlon to a duathlon is real at this summer’s Paris Olympic Games, organising committee President Tony Estanguet has admitted. Estanguet concedes the cancellation of the swim leg at any one or all of the men’s (July 30), women’s (July 31) or mixed relay (August 5) races has been planned for if heavy rain raises E Coli levels in the River Seine. Officials expressed confidence of the Seine being fit for competition by Games time after the mixed relay at the Paris Test eve ..read more