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Gabriel Sandör of Sweden kicked off his season with a win at the Arlandastad Duathlon. The race followed the classic duathlon distances of a 5km run, 20km bike and another 2.5km run. The bike portion of the race was draft-legal and Sandör won in comfort as he finished in a total time of 52:26. The most impressive part of his race was his opening 5km in which he logged a 14:32 split. At the end of the race he also finished in a 7:22 over the 2.5km so his running…

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The racing continued at the World Multisport Championships in Ibiza with the elite aquathlon races. With a 1km swim and a 5km run, the athletes were confronted with a slightly different challenge to the standard triathlon fare. Without the need for a bike or drafting considerations, the Senior, U23 and Junior fields all raced as one with the category results extracted after the event. Having won a silver medal in the duathlon already at the championships, Zsanett Bragmayer was an early favourite. Meanwhile, Margareta Vrablova was the prohibitive favourite in…

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Cassandre Beaugrand won the BUCS Sprint Championships title today with a consummate all-round performance. With the racing taking place in waves, when Beaugrand crossed the line it was not immediately certain whether she had won the title. Her victory, though, was duly confirmed afterwards. Racing for Loughborough University, Beaugrand opened her race with a 4:55 400m pool swim (25m). She followed that with a 36:22 split over the 22km bike course and finished her day with a 17:54 5km run split. Her run was some way off her 16:38 5km…

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A handful of Swiss triathletes took on road running races in Lausanne at the weekend. While the 20km race was the premier event on the agenda, three members of the Swiss national team took on the 5km on Saturday. Adrien Briffod finished 4th overall with a time of 14:34.6. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of his performance was that it came barely six weeks after being hospitalised having being hit by a car. Fortunately that episode only left Briffod with ten stitches and a broken nose. Nevertheless it would have…

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There are some titles that insert an athlete into the pantheon of greatness and the Ultimate Athlete Mount Maunganui might just be one of the most prestigious. For Hayden Wilde, the Olympic bronze medal and WTCS wins might not be able to stack up to what he achieved at the weekend. In his native New Zealand, he won the elite 10km race at the Ultimate Athlete. With 25 obstacles to contend with over the course, Wilde finished in a time of 43:40, 3 minutes 43 seconds ahead of the next…

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After the action of the Senior races at the World Duathlon Championships, attention turned to the Junior races. Neither the Junior men’s nor the Junior women’s field were the largest, however both contained a number of high profile emerging talents. Pelayo González Turrez, the recent winner of the European Junior Cup in Melilla, and João Nuno Batista, the 2021 World Junior silver medallist, were perhaps the standout names. However, any possibility of a tightly-fought race was quickly squashed by González. In the opening 5km run, he gave a hint of…

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The World Duathlon Championships kicked off the World Multisport Championships today in Ibiza, Spain. In the elite men’s race, one of the finest athletes to grace the sport, three time world champion Mario Mola, had a score to settle. Earlier this year, he won a bronze medal at the European Duathlon Championships. The winner that day was Frenchman Benjamin Choquet while the young Belgian Arnaud Dely took silver. Behind the smiles before the start of the race, it was clear that Mola meant business. Over the first 5km, he set…

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On Monday, Cassandre Beaugrand will be taking on the BUCS Sprint Triathlon Championships. BUCS stands for British Universities and Colleges Sport and is the primary organiser of university-level competition in the UK. Having enrolled in a degree at Loughborough University at the start of the academic year, Beaugrand will be a part of the Loughborough team tackling this year’s Sprint triathlon championships. The racing will take place at Westonbirt House in Gloucestershire and athletes will take on a 400m swim (in a 25m pool) followed by a 22km bike. They…

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Earlier today, World Triathlon announced the courses for triathlon at next year’s Olympic Games in Paris. Based in the very heart of the city, the races will take in some of France’s most iconic sites. The start and finish point will be on the Pont Alexandre III bridge with the athletes diving into the river from a floating pontoon at the foot of the bridge. Watching from above, a spectator stand with 1000 fans will be watching. The bridge will also host T1 and T2, giving the spectators plenty of…

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It is not particularly common for us to report on efforts done in training. Unlike a race environment, training does not quite have the same level of control and sometimes can be a little unreliable. As with any rule, though, there are always exceptions and recently Tilda Månsson provided a very notable one. In a training effort on the track, she ran 10,000m in a time of 33:07. She noted that her previous best time was 34:04 so her showing represented an improvement of almost 1 minute. She also added…

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Pierre Le Corre took on the Infinitri 113 Triathlon Peñíscola at the weekend. Across distances of 1.9km, 85km and 21km, Le Corre completed the course in a time of 3:45:41 to take the win by 1 minute 17 seconds. A field-leading 1:09:29 run split helped him to seal the deal ahead of Josh Amberger and Jannik Schaufler. Also racing in Peñíscola was Le Corre’s fellow Les Sables Vendée Triathlon competitor, Alexia Bailly. Bailly took 2nd place, 2 minutes behind Emilie Morier. Bailly and Morier were well-matched on the swim and…

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