Triathlon at the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Games took place at the Gamagori City Triathlon Venue on 20-21 September, with individual sprint-distance races followed by the mixed relay. Here’s who won, and what it means heading into the Olympic qualification cycle. Men’s Individual: Takumi Hojo Strikes Gold on Home Soil Japan’s Takumi Hojo won the first…
Kristian Blummenfelt and Gustav Iden will race Challenge Xiamen on 7 November 2026, four weeks after the IRONMAN World Championship in Kona. TRI247 reports it is the first time since 2021 that either of them has raced beyond the traditional season-ending IRONMAN 70.3 or IRONMAN World Championship. The race Date — 7 November (professional middle-distance…
Swiss triathlete Imogen Simmonds — third at the 2023 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship in Lahti and PTO World #13 at the time — has been formally cleared of an anti-doping rule violation after the International Testing Agency (ITA) accepted a rare “No Fault or Negligence” finding. What Happened An out-of-competition sample collected on 8 December…
Dorian Coninx won a tight battle over a fast-closing Alex Yee in rain-soaked, crash-strewn conditions at WTCS Karlovy Vary, while Georgia Taylor-Brown claimed her first WTCS victory in almost three years in a women’s race that saw over a quarter of the field DNF on the wet cobblestones. Men’s Race Alex Yee began the 10km…
Hayden Wilde won T100 French Riviera by 19 seconds over Jelle Geens, with the top three finishing within 24 seconds of each other in a men’s-only round of the 2026 T100 calendar. Men’s Race Jelle Geens out-kicked Kyle Smith in the closing stages of the run to take second, with the top three separated by…
Hayden Wilde held off a fast-finishing Kristian Blummenfelt to win the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship in Nice, while Taylor Knibb broke the course record to claim her fourth world title in the women’s race. Men’s Race Kristian Blummenfelt exited T2 in 16th place, more than two and a half minutes down on the leaders, then…
World Triathlon and the Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) are rolling out the new Triathlon World Tour brand and its 2027 structure in stages, and the third tier — Challenger — is the piece still waiting on full details. Here’s what’s actually confirmed so far, and what’s still to come. What’s Already Confirmed World Triathlon and…
Autumn is when most experienced triathletes actually build next year’s calendar, not January. Entries for popular races open and sell out well before the new year, and building the calendar now — rather than reacting to whatever’s still available in spring — gives you far more control over training structure and cost. Start With Your…
The IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship returns to Nice, France, for a two-day format: the women’s race on Saturday 12 September 2026, followed by the men’s race on Sunday 13 September 2026. Both fields are stacked with multiple past champions, making this one of the most competitive World Championship start lists in years. Women’s Race: Saturday…
Nice hosts the 2026 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship across two race days — women on Saturday 12 September, men on Sunday 13 September — with more than 140 professional triathletes on the start list, 3,000 Pro Series points and a $500,000 prize purse up for grabs as the penultimate stop of the IRONMAN Pro Series….
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