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Running Roundup: What Have Those Triathletes Been Up To?

Benjamin Eastman

For some triathletes, the arrival of winter marks of time of deep training, with racing a distant prospect on the horizon. As the mercury plummets, hours are spent grinding through weeks of immense hard work in preparation for the coming season. However, while international triathlon may not be on the cards, single-sport competition remains very much on the menu. Two international triathletes have recently taken the chance to maintain their race sharpness. Rather than sticking to the realm of triathlon, they entered the cross country sphere. Lisa Tertsch, a previous…

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Bröcker, Castro and Szalai Making 2024 Bundesliga Moves

Benjamin Eastman

The men’s 2023 European champion will be suiting up in the colours of Absolute Teamsport KTT 01 in next season’s Bundesliga. David Castro Fajardo, the gold medallist at the European Championships in Madrid, has been revealed as the latest signing of the KTT 01 men’s team. The winner of the World Cup in Huatulco this year and the World Cup in Vina del Mar in 2022, Castro brings a wealth of experience to the team. More pertinently, he also instantly provides a race-winning threat to the KTT 01 squad. With…

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No Sleep ‘til Paris: Busy 2024 Continental Cup Plan Unveiled

Benjamin Eastman

The final Continental Cups of the year may have just brought the curtain down on the 2023 season, but eyes are already turning to the 2024 campaign that is right around the corner. A packed preliminary Continental Cup calendar has been revealed, in addition to the WTCS and World Cup schedule, offering plenty of opportunities for athletes to boost their hopes of qualifying for the Paris Olympic Games. The Asia Cup in Xiamen and African Cup in Kilifi concluded the current season but in less than three months the 2024…

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Valentina Riasova Receives Two Year Ban For Doping

Benjamin Eastman

When something looks too good to be true, more often than not it is. World Triathlon confirmed today that Russian triathlete Valentina Riasova has been issued with a two year doping ban. This comes four days after TriStats identified Riasova as the star performer on the Les Sables Vendée Triathlon team in the 2023 French Grand Prix. Having been unable to race on the international circuit for a spell, seemingly due to Russia’s ban after the invasion of Ukraine, Riasova had found notable success on the French circuit. Wins in Metz…

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Changes Made To The Start Of The 2024 Triathlon Season

Benjamin Eastman

There has already been movement on the planned schedule for international triathlon in 2024. The first stops of the WTCS and World Cup schedules for next year were announced in September. In the weeks since, new races have been added while previously fixed dates have been changed. World Triathlon have confirmed that WTCS Abu Dhabi has been moved back by a week. It was originally slated to take place between 2-3 March next year. Now it will occur on 8-9 March. As a result, the new Abu Dhabi date will…

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Maira Carreau and Arizona State Claim 2023 NCAA D1 Titles

Benjamin Eastman

Triathlon took its latest step forward in America amid the action at the 2023 NCAA championships over the weekend. Hosted by Arizona State University, the defending champions, the event saw athletes from over thirty institutions participate. The NCAA represents university and collegiate sports in the United States and has long been a pipeline of American Olympic talent, particularly in swimming and track and field. In part due to Title IX regulations, which essentially ensures an equal access to sport at the NCAA level (it more broadly prohibits discrimination on the…

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Tom Richard The Latest Athlete To Join Saint-Raphaël Set-Up

Benjamin Eastman

After a successful 2023, Tom Richard has revealed that he will be making a change in his coaching set-up. The French athlete enjoyed an impressive season, logging finishes of 7th and 12th at WTCS Sunderland and WTCS Pontevedra, respectively. In doing so, he sealed his right to start for France at WTCS races in 2024. He also added finishes of 17th at WTCS Hamburg and 18th at WTCS Cagliari en route to finishing 22nd overall in the Series. Alongside his season best WTCS finish in Sunderland, Richard was a part…

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First Races of the 2024 Bundesliga Season Announced

Benjamin Eastman

The schedule for the first division in the 2024 Bundesliga is starting to take shape. The competition will kick off in Kraichgau on 25th May, marking the ninth time that a stop has been held at the venue. Tübingen will also return after hosting a successful round in 2023. Next year it will welcome the teams on 21st July and the event will represent the seventh time Tübingen has appeared on the circuit.   The timing may prevent any of Germany’s Olympic qualifiers from racing in Tübingen seeing as the Games will…

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First European Dates Confirmed For 2024 Season

Benjamin Eastman

The European triathlon calendar for 2024 is starting to take shape. Europe Triathlon recently confirmed the opening salvo of events, including the schedule for the European Cups and European Junior Cups as well as the European Super Sprint Championships. The Super Sprint event will be returning to Balikesir, Turkey, in August. Earlier this year, the 2023 event took place in the same city with Ricardo Batista and Mathilde Gautier coming away with the wins. In 2024, Balikesir will host the European Super Sprint Championships between 9-11 August. It will also…

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Yuliya Yelistratova Receives Five Year Doping Ban

Benjamin Eastman

Ukrainian triathlete Yuliya Yelistratova has been banned from elite competition for five years following doping offences. Yelistratova’s first offence came to light with an in-competition sample collected by World Triathlon at the European Cup in Dnipro, Ukraine on 5 June 2021. Yelistratova won the Dnipro race ahead of Solveig Løvseth and Sophia Green, with Bianca Seregni finishing off the podium in 4th place. Yelistratova would then race at the 2021 Huatulco World Cup (where she finished 22nd) and won the Ukrainian Championships. However, prior to the Tokyo Olympic Games, out-of-competition…

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Mey Post-SV Tübingen Withdrawing From Women’s Bundesliga

Benjamin Eastman

Mey Post-SV Tübingen have announced that they will be pulling out of the women’s Bundesliga next season. In 2023, the team finished 8th overall having claimed 7th place in both 2021 and 2022. In that time, athletes like Pia Wolf, Alina Würth and Greta Groten have became consistent performers for the team. Going forward, however, they will have to look for a new outfit. Tübingen thus becomes the second team to withdraw from next year’s first division. In a previous major shock the defending men’s and women’s champions, EJOT Team…

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Russia Remains Non-Compliant In Anti-Doping Says WADA

Benjamin Eastman

Back in April, World Triathlon lifted its ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes. The athletes were prohibited from racing as part of the wider ban on Russia and Belarus following the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Prior to that, Russian athletes were also subject to a ban as a result of the country’s doping offences. Acting in step with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), World Triathlon declared that they supported “the development of a pathway for independent neutral individual Athletes and Officials with Russian and Belarusian passports to participate…

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The Third Woman: Qualifying Three Women To Paris 2024

Benjamin Eastman

Yesterday we looked into the countries that are in with a chance of qualifying three men for the Paris Olympic Games in 2024. Today, it is the turn of the women. To qualify three women, a country will need to have three athletes inside the top-30 of the Olympic qualification rankings by the end of the qualifying window in May 2024. Looking at the current rankings, a select group of countries have essentially sealed their third slots. Britain have three women in the top-7 of the rankings. Germany have three…

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The Third Man: The Race To Send Three Men To Paris 2024

Benjamin Eastman

If a country puts three men inside the top-30 of the Olympic qualification rankings at the end of the qualifying window, they will earn a third men’s slot for the Paris Olympic Games next summer. Qualifying three men (or women) to the Olympics is a major statement of depth and is usually reserved to the select powerhouses of the sport. At this point in time, the men’s race to qualify three men is entering a tense phase. A group of countries are all primed to put a third man in…

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Elite Triathletes Stay Sharp With Off-Road Outings

Benjamin Eastman

Taking the chance to mix up their standard routine, two international triathletes separately took on off-road cycling challenges. Anne Holm and Gwen Jorgensen raced in Denmark and the United States, respectively, as they took on gravel racing and cyclocross. Holm won a silver medal at the Danish gravel nationals. Most impressively, it was her first time ever racing on gravel. The course itself covered 140km and represented a tough day out even for those well-versed in the discipline. On the triathlon front, Holm is not scheduled to race again internationally…

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