Banzai

Now in its fourth year, the 2012 ITU World Triathlon Series is just around the corner and will travel to eight host cities across three continents. The world’s top triathletes compete for crucial series points until a World Champion is crowned in the Grand Final at the end of the season. In this critical Olympic year, the first three WTS events will also be included in ITU’s Olympic qualification period which continues until the end of May.

2012 Series Schedule
Sydney: April 14-15
San Diego:...

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International Triathlon Union

How do you wind down from not only competing at Ironman Melbourne, but coming seventh overall in a blistering time? You get back on the bike and take on another monumental athletic challenge, albeit with a twist.

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First Off the Bike

The 2012 Tateyama ASTC Triathlon Asian Championships elite start lists are teeming with past Japanese Asian Champions including current title holders, Kiyomi Niwata and Yuichi Hosoda. However, with two Olympic spots awarded to the winners, Korea will be giving everything to claim the honours.

Niwata and Hosoda are both far enough up the ITU Qualification List to likely each secure an elusive 2012 Olympic position for Japan, but gold in Tateyama would confirm these positions.  In the...

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International Triathlon Union

The 2012 Tateyama ASTC Triathlon Asian Championships elite start lists are teeming with past Japanese Asian Champions including current title holders, Kiyomi Niwata and Yuichi Hosoda. However, with two Olympic spots awarded to the winners, Korea will be giving everything to claim the honours.

Niwata and Hosoda are both far enough up the ITU Qualification List to likely each secure an elusive 2012 Olympic position for Japan, but gold in Tateyama would confirm these positions.  In the...

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International Triathlon Union

Every sport has it's myths. We take a look at a few from the world of triathlon and shed some light on whether they are real or not.

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First Off the Bike

The ITU Anti-Doping team would like to offer congratulations to the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) who are celebrating their twentieth anniversary this week in Ottawa, Canada. The Canadian National Anti-Doping Agency is a partner of ITU’s as they are contracted to help with our Out of Competition testing. Twenty years of keeping sport clean and ethical is certainly a wonderful achievement and we look forward to working with them for another twenty years.

Another one of ITU’s...

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International Triathlon Union

ITU was shocked this weekend by the sudden passing of one of their finest coaches and mentors, António Miguel Jourdan of Portugal. He was just 41 years old. António was one of ITU Development’s lead coaching facilitators and was tireless in his efforts to advance the level of coaching expertise globally along with the ITU Development Department.

ITU President Marisol Casado expressed her deep sorrow to the family in the loss of this wonderful man at such an early age.  “Our hearts go out...

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International Triathlon Union

Call it hyperbole, call it star fascination, call it what you will but Lance Armstrong, like it or not, is the greatest thing to happen to the sport of Ironman triathlon in 20 years. And what stemmed from our conversation with Craig Alexander has coined the phrase the "Lance Effect"

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First Off the Bike

James Seear is one of this country's quickest on the ITU circuit. Another good race in Mooloolaba saw Jimmy logging time at the head of affairs in front of some of the big names in the ITU.

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First Off the Bike

After weeks of speculation, Trek Bicycle unveiled the highly-anticipated 2013 Domane (latin for “King’s Crown”), an all-new road racing bike that specifically addresses the challenges of rough road conditions found throughout the spring classics courses with a collection of key innovations unlike any available before today.

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First Off the Bike