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Amid the recent news that Taylor Knibb has signed for UCI World Tour team Trek-Segafredo and will be racing at the US National Time Trial Championships, another WTCS athlete took to the starting gate of a national time trial. Anne Holm raced at the Danish Championships in Aalborg and came away with 7th place. Over a 26.3km route described as completely flat, she stopped the clock in a time of 36:47. That gave her an average speed of 42.89 km/h. At the first checkpoint, 7.3km in, Holm was in 10th…

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Places on the British team at the European Sprint Championships in Balikesir, Turkey, will be on the line this weekend. In the latest instalment of the British Super Series, many of the country’s top athletes will be competing in Mallory Park to make the Senior, U23 and Junior championship teams. With the racing in Balikesir taking place over the Super Sprint distance, the British trials will follow a similar format. On the Saturday evening, the Senior and Junior athletes will take on a 350m swim, 8km bike and 2km run.…

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As with the men’s field, the final places for the World Junior Championships in Hamburg have now been assigned. World Triathlon reserved four slots on the start list for invited athletes. However, as a number of countries did not submit their entries either on time or at all, the number of invites was ultimately larger than expected. Heidi Henry has been added to the start list, extending the Canadian team to four women. As seen with some of the men’s teams, while there is a cap of three athletes per…

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Seventy men and seventy women will start at the World Junior Championships in Hamburg. To get to that magic number, though, a complicated process had to be followed to assign the right to race. To start with, sixty-five slots for both genders were assigned at pre-determined qualification events. One slot per gender was then reserved for the host country and the last four places were covered by “invites” sent by World Triathlon. You can read more about the process of earning slots here. However, things are not quite as simple…

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Last but by no means least, it is time to take a look at who’s who on the men’s World Junior Championships starts lists from Oceania and Asia. To refresh your memories, you can view the European men here and the men from Africa and the Americas here. Any appearance at a World Junior Championships is a landmark moment for an athlete. Each start should therefore be something to celebrate. Whatever happens at the race itself, it is important to take a moment and enjoy making it to such a…

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As talented as the women of Europe, Africa and the Americas are, there are a couple of names from Asia and Oceania that have to been mentioned when it comes to discussing potential winners at the World Junior Championships in Hamburg. In this article, we therefore present the final women’s who’s who of the start lists. You can view part 1 for Europe here and part 2 covering the Americas and Africa here. In total, 8 slots were available to federations from Asia while 5 were available to those from…

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The World Junior Championships are a huge opportunity in any young athlete’s career to mark themselves out as one to watch. Success at the world level is usually a good barometer for future potential and one big race could provide lock down and security from a national federation for several years thereafter. In this article, we will be looking at who’s who on the women’s start list from Africa and the Americas. You can view the breakdown of the European women here. You can also check out who will be…

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Today we are continuing our look at who’s who on the World Junior Championships start lists. You can read part 1 for the men here. Stepping onto the start line of a World Junior Championships is a big moment in any young athlete’s career and each man starting in Hamburg will be looking to put their best foot forward. In this article, we will be looking at the men starting from the Americas and Africa. The Americas received 14 slots for Hamburg; one of those, however, has not been filled…

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Making it to the World Junior Championships is a major achievement in any young triathlete’s career. With some of the best youngsters in the world due to race at this year’s event in Hamburg, we are taking a look at all the athletes racing to provide a who’s who of the names on the start list. In this article, we will kick off the first of the three women’s previews with the athletes from Europe. You can read part 1 of the Junior men’s breakdown here. As with the European…

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Taylor’s Time Trial At the weekend, Taylor Knibb won Ironman 70.3 Boulder. Perhaps the bigger news about the multiple WTCS medallist, though, came from beyond the race. It was confirmed that Knibb will race at the USA National Time Trial later this month. She will be competing under the colours of Trek Segafredo Pro Team. The news throws up several possible implications. It has long been established that Knibb is one of the best cyclists in the women’s short distance circuit. Maybe she is even the best, although Flora Duffy…

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