Category: Races

To quote My Chemical Romance, “all teenagers scare the livin’ shit out of me”. Seldom has that quote been more appropriate than when surveying the start lists for the World Junior Championships. This year, the men’s field in Hamburg is ridiculously deep. Before forecasting how the race might pan out, and this goes for the women’s preview too, a massive caveat has to stated in that Juniors are liable to do anything. Someone could pop off out of nowhere and claim the win. Likewise a favourite could have an ill-timed…

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Less than a week after last year’s World Junior champion, Tilda Månsson, claimed her second World Cup win, the time has come to determine her successor. In Montreal last season, Månsson’s victory built upon a streak of European success at the World Junior Championships. This year, an early favourite has emerged from the same continent. Margareta Vrablova of Slovakia has been on a tear in 2023. With European Junior Cup golds in Melilla, Quarteira, Olsztyn and Wels, she has been a veritable winning machine. To go alongside those golds, she claimed…

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Summer is rarely the season for triathlon in Africa. Between the African Cup in Yasmine Hammamet at the end of May and the African Cup in Monastir in September, only one race on the continent has been pencilled into the schedule. That event came at the weekend with the African Premium Cup in Larache, Morocco. Although no African athletes started in the women’s race, the men’s event saw Badr Siwane of Morocco wear number 1. Against a cosmopolitan field, with all five continental associations represented, Siwane had a challenge on…

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Home expectation brings a different kind of pressure. Where Hayden Wilde experienced it when he raced in his homeland at the New Plymouth World Cup back in March, this time it fell to Csongor Lehmann as he led a redoubtable Hungarian team in Tiszaujvaros. Following consecutive European Cup wins in his home town, Lehmann had planted his flag early in the semi-finals to claim the number 1 seed for the final. All he had to do was repeat. With a stacked Hungarian team ready to stop him, not to mention…

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Boiled down to its purest form, the women’s final at the Tiszaujvaros World Cup came down to three women. Across the swim, bike and run, each shaped the race and, at separate points, each looked in control of the situation. It was the battle of the three leading ladies that defined Tiszaujvaros. Only one of them, though, could take the win. The first of the women was Bianca Seregni. Heading into the race, the Italian athlete had struggled with injury which had stalled her momentum. However, she had issued a…

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From sixty-eight men and fifty-seven women, thirty remained in each of the finals at the European Junior Cup in Tiszaujvaros. After Hungary had swept all five of the heats the day prior, they were the obvious favourites for the wins. Fanni Szalai and Nora Romina Nádas had been dominant on the women’s side, while Márton Kropkó, Zalán Hóbor and Gyula Kovács breezed through the men’s heats. A slightly longer route awaited the athletes in the final. The swim remained the same at 500m. Both the bike and run, though, had…

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Two weeks after hosting a stop in the WTCS, Montreal opened its doors to more elite triathlon. Alongside the third instalment of the World Para Series, Montreal welcomed an Americas Cup in which a number of home stars started. World Cup medallist Emy Legault was among the standout entrants on the women’s side. For the men, Aiden Longcroft-Harris and Liam Donnelly had already claimed Americas Cup wins in 2023 and were among the favourites. A smattering of international stars also took on the Sprint distance event and were set upon…

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How can one describe the performances of Hungary’s Juniors in the heats of the European Junior Cup in Tiszaujvaros? Seeing as the home team put on a show and swept all five semi-finals, perhaps this will suffice: With distances of 500m in the swim, 11.5km on the bike and 3.3km on the run, there was plenty to tempt breakaways and several athletes duly obliged. Men Nine was the magic number in the men’s field. Anyone that made it into the top-9 in their heat would automatically qualify for the final…

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The sun came out at the Tiszaujvaros World Cup as the athletes had to deal with temperatures nearing 30 degrees (Celsius) in the semi-finals. In light of the torrential downpours only a day earlier, the weather was quite the change. With a Sprint event to tackle, the challenge awaiting the athletes was to expend as little energy as possible while making Sunday’s final. Easier said than done, when one factored in the start lists and the conditions. Women The top-14 finishers from the two women’s semi-finals would automatically qualify for…

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With a number of athletes arriving in form, the winner of the Tiszaujvaros World Cup could come from anywhere. The race will provide a meeting point for winners of Continental Cups from around the world as well as athletes with World Cup medals to their names over the past year. With plenty of depth, the field is evenly-matched and the gold will likely be decided on the smallest of details. Fresh off her win at the Asia Cup in Sejong, Niina Kishimoto will be racing at a World Triathlon event…

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Tiszaujvaros is home turf for Csongor Lehmann. The winner of the European Cups that came to the town in 2021 and 2022, Lehmann also finished 4th the last time it hosted a World Cup in 2019. He lives in the town. He trains in the town. It is his home and it is therefore a safe bet to say he will put on a show. This season Lehmann has finished 9th at WTCS Yokohama and 7th at WTCS Cagliari. He then nabbed 6th place at the European Championships, even though…

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After the European Junior Cup took place in Holten yesterday, today it was the turn of the Senior athletes with the European Premium Cup. Several athletes arrived straight from the European Games in Krakow, including the women’s bronze medallist, Jolien Vermeylen. On the one hand, Holten only presented a sprint distance race. However, with an Olympic distance race in Vermeylen’s legs from only a few days prior, it remained to be seen how her body would respond. A notable Junior face also popped up in the men’s field as Bradley…

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Beneath the grey skies of Sejong, South Korea, the athletes competing in the Asia Cup splashed brushes of colour across the city. With the course set over the Sprint distance event, a number of those racing took the opportunity to set a hard pace throughout. Men’s report With the water over 27 degrees (Celsius) balmy conditions awaited the men in the swim. Enjoying the warmth of the water, Koki Yamamoto of Japan made the most of the non-wetsuit swim to lead the way in a time of 9:01. A small…

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