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Last weekend, Hungarian athlete Gergely Kiss ran a new personal best time in the 3000m. Racing indoors in Budapest, Kiss recorded a time of 8:23.85. That knocked over 25 seconds off his previous best time which he set back in 2018. Running in the same field as Kiss was Csongor Lehmann, the 2021 world U23 champion. Lehmann ran a time of 8:23.42 which also represented a personal best. Although, his previous personal best was only half a second slower and was set back in 2020 (also indoors). It appears, then,…

Belgian athlete Jolien Vermeylen yesterday swam a 9:13.88 800m freestyle at the Flemish Swimming Championships in Antwerp. Held over long course (50m), Vermeylen swam an evenly split race, taking out the first half in a 4:34.51 and bringing home the second half in a 4:39.37. Her performance was enough to take the win by over 1.5 seconds. For good measure, she also added a speedy 1:14 breaststroke split in her team’s 4×100 medley relay. It is worth noting that Vermeylen dropped that split about 15 minutes after her 800m. Vermeylen’s…

In 2023, the way in which prize money will be paid out in the World Triathlon Championship Series will change. Moreover, the total amount to be paid to athletes will be rising this year. It was recently announced that World Triathlon’s Board has approved the distribution of prize money for this season. In 2022, WTCS events paid down to the top-20 athletes in the field. Moreover, at the WTCS Final in Abu Dhabi, the top-25 finishers received prize money. Previously, the most extensive source of prize money was the Bonus…

World Triathlon made public a number of changes to the 2023 calendar overnight. They come after the changes made in January that saw the addition of WTCS Cagliari and WTCS Montreal and the removal of the Bergen and Busselton World Cup events. The first change to affect the season is that the Yeongdo World Cup, scheduled for 6/7 May, has been pushed into the second half of the year. At this point, the exact new timing of the Yeongdo World Cup is unknown. It appears that the rationale for the…

A large British contingent from the Loughborough group are currently on a training camp in Gold Coast, Australia. Yesterday evening, WTCS medallist Sophie Coldwell and her compatriot Sophia Green took part in the local Wednesday Worlds Criterium. Organised by the Gold Coast Cycling Club, the racing took place at the Luke Harrop circuit in Nerang. The results are not yet available for Coldwell’s performance. The Brits, however, were not the only triathletes starting. WTCS silver medallist Matthew Hauser finished second in the A category race. Hauser’s race consisted of a…

At the weekend, some of America’s best triathletes descended upon the Old Man Winter Rally in Lyons, Colorado. Morgan Pearson, Gwen Jorgensen and Summer Rappaport (competing under her maiden name, Cook) each took on the 50km off-road bike race. With snow, climbs, gravel paths and red rock canyon on offer, it promised to be a stiff winter test. In the women’s race, Rappaport won the silver medal in a time of 1:26:22, some 2 minutes 38 seconds down on the winner. 2016 Olympic champion Jorgensen followed home in third place,…

Earlier this week, it was reported that British U20 Cross Country runner, Innes FitzGerald, asked British Athletics to withdraw her from consideration for the world championships in Australia over environmental concerns. FitzGerald was concerned over the environmental damage that would arise from the flight to the other side of the world. Her letter was published in Athletics Weekly and stated: “I was just nine when the Cop21 Paris climate agreement was signed. Now, eight years on, and global emissions have been steadily increasing, sending us on a path to climate…

A number of countries already have their Olympic selection policies formalised and published. One thing that has stood out among them is the importance of the Olympic Test Event in Paris this August and the WTCS Final in Pontevedra in September. Germany has not yet published its qualification criteria. However, its new head coach, Thomas Moeller, confirmed that both Paris and Pontevedra will be key for any athlete that hopes to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games. Any German man or woman can lock up their Olympic qualification by finishing…

In an interview with the DTU (German Triathlon Union), new Germany head coach Thomas Moeller explained that his approach for the remainder of the Olympic qualification period will be to prioritise the qualification of athletes for the individual race at the Paris Olympic Games over the Mixed Team Relay. Ahead of the 2020(1) Tokyo Olympics, Germany held a specific trial to determine the recipient of the relay slots. This came after the relay earned the team two male and two female slots which the country would not have otherwise earned.…

Earlier this week it was announced that Thomas Moeller has been named the latest German head coach by the DTU (German Triathlon Union). Moeller appears a well-suited candidate for the job. However, his appointment is the latest in a long line over the past half dozen years. Dan Lorang led the German team until 2016. After the Olympics that year, though, he was unceremoniously dismissed as the DTU were unhappy with the German team performance at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. Lorang has been one of the leading German…