Ironman WC Kona: Full Results here

|Women: 🏊️Charles-Barclay was solo from the get go finishing the swim with a 90s lead. Knibb was 7th in the chase pack 1:40 behind. A big group was just over 4min behind that contained Langridge, Sodaro, Ryf, Norden and most notably…Haug. 🚴Knibb quickly rode into 2nd place and by 40km was riding 90s behind Charles-Barclay. Half-way into the bike saw Knibb still in 2nd but having lost a little bit of time now at 2:15 behind. Ryf was up into 3rd almost 8min behind Charles-Barclay. Norden, Philipp and McCauley were close behind Ryf. Haug was sitting in 8th but 10min behind, not being able to stick with the “Ryf group”. Charles-Barclay finished the bike having increased her lead to 3:47 over Knibb who was comfortably in 2nd with a 7min buffer on McCauley, Philipp and Norden. Ryf dropped to 6th over 11min behind the lead with Haug a further minute back in 7th and 12:14 behind LCB. Defending champion Sodaro was in 20th finishing the bike 22:15 off the lead. 🏃 Charles-Barclay ran her IM marathon PB to take the win. Haug passed Knibb for 2nd place at the 28km mark and was just shy of 3min behind. Philipp passed Knibb with 2km to go to take 3rd.

Women

🥇 Lucy Charles-Barclay (08:24:31)

🥈 Anne Haug (08:27:33)

🥉 Laura Philipp (08:32:55)

Challenge Peguera Mallorca: Full Results here

| Women: 🏊️ Buckingham led out the swim with a 1:22 gap to Simmonds 🚴 She stayed ahead right up until the last few kilometers when Simmonds and Bendix-Madsen caught her. 🏃 Simmonds took the lead but Buckingham was close by pushing her…until Buckingham pulled out due to illness with about 5km to go. Laura Madsen and Diederiks both passed Bendix Madsen on the last lap to round up the podium. | Men: 🏊️ Keulen finished in a large lead group that included Brownlee, Bogen, Margirier and Hirsch. 🚴 The 5 leaders all rode together and finished the bike around 2min ahead of the chase group led by Funk. 🏃Keulen avoided the side-by-side battle with Brownlee this week and lead from the start of the run. Margirier was comfortably in 2nd but Brownlee had to work hard to beat Hirsch for 3rd.

Ironman World Champs Kona - 14 October

Full distance with a Diamond tier. Women’s SOF: 93.35. Full start list here.

• Notable Women: Chelsea Sodaro, Ruth Astle, Lisa Norden, Fenella Langridge, Sarah True, Daniela Ryf, Laura Philipp, Lucy Charles-Barclay, Kat Matthews, Anne Haug, Taylor Knibb

Challenge Peguera Mallorca - 14 October

Half distance with a Silver tier. Women’s SOF: 78.45, Men’s SOF: 86.02. Full start list here. 

• Notable Women: Imogen Simmonds, Diede Diederiks, Lucy Buckingham

• Notable Men: Mathis Margirier, Fred Funk, Menno Koolhaas, Youri Keulen, Rico Bogen, Ali Brownlee, Pablo Dapena Gonzalez

70.3 Langkawi: Full Results here

|Women: 🏊️Lemmolo exited the swim first with Gentle, Lucas and Watkinson close by. 🚴 The four leaders rode together for the whole bike finishing over 16min ahead of Simpson in 5th. 🏃 Gentle had established a 30s gap within the first 3km. This was well over 2min at 10km and almost 6min at the line. | Men: 🏊️ Similar to the ladies race, 4 men were in the front: Amberger, McDonald, Phillips and Costes. 🚴 Costes lost 1min early on after crashing, leaving Amberger, McDonald and Phillips up front. The trio finished together over 5min ahead of Costes in 4th. 🏃 Amberger trailed early on but hit the front at about 10km in and ended up winning by over 90s.

Challenge Barcelona: Full Results here

| Women: 🏊️ Buckingham and Perez-Sala finished the swim 1:20 ahead of Simmonds. 🚴 Perez-Sala dropped out at 30km (illness) leaving Buckingham in front for the whole bike. Pohle joined Buckingham nearing half-way and Simmonds caught them nearing T2. 🏃 Simmonds took the lead immediately and never looked back. | Men: 🏊️ 9 athletes finished the swim within 20s of each other including Brownlee, Royle and Keulen. 🚴 A lead group of 5 was established and, driven by Brownlee and Keulen, came into T2 with a 2:30 lead over 6th place. 🏃Brownlee lead from 1km to 10km but Keulen was always a few seconds back. Keulen made the pass just after 10km but Brownlee stuck with him. They ran the next 4km side-by-side until Keulen eventually managed to get a surge to stick and broke away.

I didn’t pick this up before the race but the distances were: 1.5km swim, 60km bike and 15km run.

World Cup Rome: Full Results here

| Women: 🏊️ The swim had some large gaps. A group of 5, led by Seregni, exited over 20s ahead. Eim, Klamer and Holland were 50s back! 🚴Vermeylen, Gautier and Mathias led for the whole bike and took a narrow 10s lead into T2. 🏃 Vermeylen lead early on to try snatch victory but eventually tired and Eim, Gomez-Goggel and Schar caught her. Eim pulled away with 500m to go. Shout out to Noelia Juan with another great result in 5th | Men: 🏊️ Strada led out a big group on the swim. West lost time in T1. 🚴 After the first lap there were 25 athletes being led mostly by Van Riel, Stornes and Henseleit. 30s back was the first chase pack with West over a minute behind. Van Riel and Pozzatti crashed into each other on the last turn. 🏃Typical of this racing, all gaps are mere seconds apart. Lehmann and Vilaca were the front runners. Vilaca made his move to take the lead but lots of jostling behind him saw another 3 athletes finish within 9s of him.

70.3 Langkawi - 7 October

Half distance with a Gold tier. Women’s SOF: 79.36, Men’s SOF: 79.83. Full start list here.

• Notable Women: Ashleigh Gentle, Amelia Watkinson, Kylie Simpson

• Notable Men: Josh Amberger, James Teagle, Mike Phillips, Braden Currie, Jelle Geens

Challenge Barcelona - 8 October

Half distance with a Silver tier. Women’s SOF: 80.14, Men’s SOF: 83.46. Full start list here. 

• Notable Women: Imogen Simmonds, Sara Perez Sala, Lucy Buckingham

• Notable Men: Alistair Brownlee, Fred Funk, Aaron Royle, Youri Keulen, Cam Wurf

World Cup Rome - 7 October

Sprint Distance World Cup Race. Full start list here.

• Notable Women: Rachel Klamer, Nina Eim, Marlene Gomez-Goggel, Maya Kingma, Vicky Holland, Amber Schlebusch

• Notable Men: Jason West (!!!), Vasco Vilaca, Jonas Schomburg, Richard Murray, Marten van Riel, Vetle Thorn

Super League Malibu: Full Results here

|Women: 1️⃣ 🏊️Beaugrand was the early leader but Lehair caught a wave coming in to take the lead. 1️⃣ 🚴 Lehair and Lombardi mostly rode together at the front but were eventually joined by Potter, Waugh and Coldwell with Beaugrand just a few seconds back. 1️⃣ 🏃 Potter shot through T2 with Beaugrand joining her. They ran together with Beaugrand getting a small gap to finish 1st. 2️⃣ 🏊️Beaugrand again led the swim but Rappaport and Coldwell utilized the chaos of the waves to come in ahead of her. 2️⃣ 🚴 Coldwell was on a mission and rode solo out front with Zafares chasing her with Lombardi “sitting in”. 2️⃣ 🏃 Lombardi caught Coldwell on the run to win with Zaferes and Lehair right there. Beaugrand and Potter finished 9s back . 3️⃣ 🏊️ Lombardi started first but Beaugrand made up most of her 6s deficit over the swim. Potter and Lehair were just over 10s back. 3️⃣ 🚴 Lombardi rode in front with Beaugrand only just keeping in touch through the technical turns. 3️⃣ 🏃 Beaugrand quickly established her dominance to win with Lombardi about 10s behind. Lehair outran Potter (!!) to take 3rd. | Men: 1️⃣ 🏊️Schoeman was out to prove a point and dominated the swim. 1️⃣ 🚴Schoeman led for most of the bike but was joined by team mates Sagiv and Reid and eventually Bergere. 1️⃣ 🏃 Wilde ran through the field to win with Bergere close by and Blummenfelt a few seconds back in 3rd. 2️⃣ 🏊️ Schoeman again led the charge but a late wave nudged Reid just ahead of him out the water. 2️⃣🚴 Wilde quicky rode to the front with Schoeman holding on for dear life. Bergere, Sagiv, Yee, Brownlee and Blummenfelt were all 10s back. 2️⃣🏃Wilde was in control and eventually crossed the line 2s ahead of Schoeman. 3️⃣ 🏊️ Wilde started the swim 9s ahead of Bergere and 11s ahead of Schoeman. By the first buoy Schoeman was in the lead to exit the water just ahead of Bergere and Wilde. 3️⃣🚴Schoeman rode with Wilde and Bergere but eventually dropped off after almost crashing round a wet corner. 3️⃣🏃 A decisive surge saw Wilde break away from Bergere to cross the line 3s ahead. Hauser came from behind to pass Schoeman and take 3rd.

Super League Malibu - 30 September

Eliminator format: 3 mini triathlons with a short break in between. Last 3 athletes across the line after the first two are eliminated. Total times in first two also determine start time for 3rd race. Full start list here. Great explainer on Instagram here.

• Notable Women: Cassandre Beaugrand, Beth Potter, Emma Lombardi, Taylor Spivey, Jeanne Lehair, Katie Zaferes, Sophie Coldwell

• Notable Men: Alex Yee, Hayden Wilde, Vasco Vilaca, Leo Bergere, Matt Hauser, Henri Schoeman, Morgan Pearson, Jonny Brownlee

WTCS Pontevedra: Full Results here

|Women: 🏊️Small gaps on the swim with Kingma and Seregni driving at the front but most contenders in touch. 🚴 The favorites were all together early on the bike with around a 40s lead over the chase pack. Jorgensen was dropped from the chasers. 🏃 Potter, Lombardi and Waugh got a gap on Beaugrand in T2. Lombardi was shortly dropped making it only Potter and Waugh out in front. Potter found an extra gear to take the win by 18s. | Men: 🏊️ Hauser and Schomburg led the swim with Yee and Wilde losing 45s?! 🚴 A group of 24 men were in the front with Wilde in the chase pack and Yee even further back in another chase group. 🏃 Into T2 and Yee was 2min back and Wilde almost 1min behind. Insult to injury had Wilde needing to serve a penalty for dropping his swim cap. Coninx, Bergere, Le Corre and Hellwig were side-by-side in front entering the stadium. Sprint finish to decide the podium. Wilde finished 10th with the 5th fastest run and Yee in 30th with the 8th fastest run.

Potter and Coninx are your new World Champions for 2023 🥳 

Challenge Sanremo: Full Results here

| Women: 🏊️ Stimpson lead out the water with 3 other ladies close behind. The eventual podium were all almost 2min behind. 🚴 Nieuwoudt, Dornaeur and Clavel mostly led the bike together but Nieuwoudt lost 30s on the final technical descent. 🏃 Clavel was the early leader on the run but Nieuwoudt eventually made the pass while having the fastest run of the day. | Men: 🏊️ Sperl led out the water with a small group of 5 spread out behind him. 🚴 Keulen was riding up front with Sperl before being led off the course by the motorbike (he later had a crash trying to avoid a car?!). Sperl had Viain, Guilloux, Wayaffe and Dreitz all chasing him but managed to get off the bike with more than a 2min lead. 🏃Sperl managed the 3rd fastest run of the day to extend his lead with only Aernouts and Thalmann catching him but 7min behind at the tape.

70.3 Augusta: Full Results here

| Women: 🏊️ Alexander and Adam came out the water in the lead with Findlay ominously just 10s behind. Hering and Jewett were almost a further minute behind. 🚴Findlay had her trademark bike and got off the bike with Adam, about 4:30 ahead of Hering and most notably uber-runner Jewett. 🏃 It was Findlay vs Jewett and by 10km Jewett was into 2nd and 2:26 behind. Findlay managed to hang on rather comfortably in the end. | Men: 🏊️ Masterclass from Noodt as he started the race swimming himself to a 45s lead over Laundry and 2:05 lead over Sanders. 🚴 Laundry caught him and the pair rode together until T2 where they had an almost 4min lead on Sanders and Foley. 🏃Noodt quite quickly established a lead on Laundry that kept growing throughout the run. He had the quickest run of the day but only 1s quicker than Sanders.

70.3 Cozumel: Full Results here

The tracker has a few apparent bugs in the mens race but I have tried my best to piece the race together.

| Women: 🏊️Sakaluk lead the swim with Berry and Crowly a few strokes behind. Frades lost a disappointing 5:42. 🚴 Berry and Crowley rode the whole bike together whith Frades in 3rd losing almost another 5min. 🏃 Berry took the lead early on and never looked back. Crowley, for the first race in a long time, had a solid run which will feel like a victory for her. | Men: 🏊️ Riele and Rodrigues came out the water first along with Anzaldo and Pereda, almost 1min ahead of threats Taccone, Chase and Lopes. 🚴 Taccone and Lopes caught the front four by halfway into the bike. Riele and Taccone came into T2 with a 1min gap the the rest of the chasers. 🏃 By halfway into the run, uber-runner Rodriguez had already hit the front with a 30s lead to Taccone. Riele was sitting in 5th with 5km to go and ran himself onto the podium.

WTCS Pontevedra - 23/24 September

Olympic distance with the men racing on Saturday and the women on Sunday. Full start list here.

• Notable Women: Cassandre Beaugrand, Beth Potter, Emma Lombardi, Taylor Spivey, Jeanne Lehair, Katie Zaferes, Gwen Jorgensen

• Notable Men: Alex Yee, Hayden Wilde, Vasco Vilaca, Leo Bergere, Dorian Coninx, Matt Hauser, Pierre Le Corre, Henri Schoeman, Morgan Pearson, Jonny Brownlee

70.3 Augusta - 24 September

Half distance with a Silver tier. Women’s SOF: 77.87, Men’s SOF: 78.89. Full start list here.

• Notable Women: Paula Findlay, Tamara Jewett, Jackie Hering

• Notable Men: Mika Noodt, Jackson Laundry, Lionel Sanders, Trevor Foley, Ari Klau

70.3 Cozumel - 24 September

Half distance with a Silver tier. Women’s SOF: 64.28, Men’s SOF: 68.78. Full start list here.

• Notable Women: Gurutze Frades Larralde, Sarah Crowley, Hannah Berry

• Notable Men: Luciano Taccone, Tomas Rodriguez, Michael Weiss, Ivan Rana, Nick Chase

Challenge San Remo - 24 September

Half distance with a Silver tier. Women’s SOF: 68.42, Men’s SOF: 76.94. Full start list here.

• Notable Women: Magda Nieuwoudt, Giorgia Priarone, Jodie Stimpson

• Notable Men: Youri Keulen, Bart Aernouts, Jonathan Wayaffe, Simon Viain

Ironman Italy: Full Results here

| Men: A group of 6 exited the water together including McNamee, Angert and Clavel. By 100km into the bike, Olij had ridden over 4min into everyone and moved from 12th to 1st. McNamee was sitting in 2nd almost 90s behind and riding with 8 other athletes, including Goetstouwers. Olij got off the bike 1st with a minute gap to Sowinski and Goetstouwers. McNamee was down in 7th over 6min back. By the half marathon mark, Goetstouwers had taken the lead with Olij still in 2nd 30s back, and McNamee sitting in 3rd 2:25 back. In the end McNamee was 45s short.

Men

🥇 Stenn Goetstouwers (07:42:29)

🥈 David McNamee (07:43:15)

🥉 Henrik Goesch (07:45:08)

Ironman Maryland: Full Results here

A group of 6 ladies came out the water less than a minute apart and included the full eventual podium. The swim was shortened to 900m due to rough conditions. Alberts lost a lot of time in T1 but was riding in front with Kessler, McQuaid and Lane by 60km into the bike. Kessler lost 4min between 152km and 180km, after crashing to avoid a car?! Alberts dominated the run to win comfortably in the end. | Men: Weiss and Long finished the shortened swim 45s and 1:07 back. Pohl was 1:23 back. By 65km into the bike, Weiss and Long were riding together in the front and putting time into everyone. Pohl finished the bike in 3rd but over 4min behind. Beals was in 5th off the bike and over 8min behind. Weiss and Long ran side by side until Long stretched ahead at the 14km mark. His lead got close to 30s by the half-marathon but this quickly started to reverse. By 25km, Weiss now had a 21s lead. Long held onto 2nd up to the 37km mark.

Triathlon De Royan: Full Results here

Drama headlining this race unfortunately as race favourite Pierre was DQ’d as she crossed the line in 1st. She fainted with 2km to go and the lead bike helped her to stand and another pro helped her walk for a few meters. She pulled herself together and started slowly running again with a 7min lead. 50 meters from the finish line she was told she was disqualified for outside assistance. | Men: Mignon established a lead on the bike with Horseau just over 2min behind. Mignon then had the fastest run of the day. Can you imagine him waiting at the finish line for his girlfriend Pierre to also win.

70.3 Michigan: Full Results here

Brandon had over a minutes lead over a spread out group of ladies behind her. Hering was almost 3min behind with Jewett a further 10s back. Brandon rode very well to get off the bike in 1st with Jewett in 2nd 2:51 back. Jewett took the lead after 5km of running. Brandon eventually finished in 5th. | Men: Harper lead the swim just ahead of other strong swimmers Appleton and Sharpe. Laundry was 90s back in 7th, Sanders 2:20 back in 14th and Foley 4:25 back in 20th. By 32km of cycling, Laundry was in the lead with Sanders 40s behind in 6th. Laundry got off the bike with a 2min lead on Appleton in 2nd with Sanders a few seconds behind Appleton. Foley was in 4th over 3min down. Foley took 3rd after 17km of running while Laundry held onto an 11s lead over Sanders who had been eeking closer and closer with each stride the whole run.

70.3 Knokke-Heist: Full Results here

Buckingham lead the swim by over a minute and smashed the bike to start the run with well over 5minutes to 2nd place Morier with Rayner and Derron close behind. Rayner was taking large chunks of time out of Buckingham’s lead but couldn’t get the last 8 seconds. | Men: Manner lead the swim with Gonzalez just over a minute back and Heemeryk at 1:22 back. Smith, Heemeryk and Hirsch started the run together with Palmer in 6th 2:34 behind. Heemeryk had the 2nd fastest run while Smith battled and eventually dropped out after losing lots of time.

Challenge Samarkand: Full Results here

Salthouse had the fastest swim, bike and run of the day to lead from start to finish. Pallant-Browne struggled and alluded to too much travel and wanting to go for blood tests. She has just spent 2 weeks on holiday in Mozambique which can’t be the best race prep! | Men: Royle had a small lead after the swim but Funk took the lead before halfway on the bike and extended this to over 2min to start the run.

Ironman Italy - 16 September

Full distance with a Silver tier and men only. Men’s SOF: 78. Full start list here.

• Notable Men: David McNamee, Giulio Molinari, Florian Angert, Andi Dreitz, Robert Kallin, William Mennesson, Tristan Olij

Ironman Maryland - 16 September

Full distance with a Silver tier. Women’s SOF: 68.22, Men’s SOF: 73.34. Full start list here.

• Notable Women: Sarah Crowley, Alice Alberts, Merideth Kessler, Melanie McQuaid

• Notable Men: Cody Beals, Jason Pohl, Michael Weiss, Justin Metzler, Sam Long

Triathlon De Royan - 16 September

Half distance with a Bronze tier. Women’s SOF: 68.22, Men’s SOF: 73.34. Full start list here. Only French athletes racing - not sure if Horseau and Mignon are starting after Nice last weekend?

• Notable Women: Marjolaine Pierre, Jeanne Collonge, Alexia Bailly

• Notable Men: Clement Mignon, Arthur Horseau

70.3 Michigan - 17 September

Half distance with a Silver tier. Women’s SOF: 73.99, Men’s SOF: 80.06. Full start list here.

• Notable Women: Tamara Jewett, Jackie Hering, Lauren Brandon, Grace Alexander

• Notable Men: Jackson Laundry, Trevor Foley, Lionel Sanders, Sam Appleton, Matt Sharpe, Taylor Reid, Greg Harper

70.3 Knokke-Heist - 17 September

Half distance with a Silver tier. Women’s SOF: 69.89, Men’s SOF: 74.21. Full start list here.

• Notable Women: Diede Diederiks, Marlene de Boer, Emilie Morier, Marta Bernardi, Elisabetta Curridori, Rene Kiley, Laura Addie

• Notable Men: Pieter Heemeryck, Kyle Smith, Harry Palmer, Pablo Dapena Gonzalez, Nic Quenet

Challenge Samarkand - 17 September

Half distance with a Silver tier. Women’s SOF: 63.14, Men’s SOF: 70.35. Full start list here.

• Notable Women: Emma Pallant-Browne, Ellie Salthouse, Margie Santimaria, Lottie Lucas

• Notable Men: Fred Funk, Aaron Royle, Sebi Kienle, Felipe Azevedo

Other races

• Mediterranean Epic Tri: No athletes in the top 100 but Javier Gomez is racing. Start list here.

• 11Tri Belgrade: Ognjen Stojanovic the only one in the top 100. Start list here.

Ironman World Champs: Full Results here

Jan Frodeno was supposed to get his fairytale sendoff, but in this story, the antagonist (Laidlow) got his own fairytale beginning! Laidlow oscillates between cocky and likeable but he’s only 24! Here’s the summary: Around 12 men came out the water with a 1min gap on Lange and Ditlev, 2min gap on Wurf and Chevalier and over 5min back to Skipper. Frodeno’s trisuit tore in T1 😕 Mignon made an early break on the bike and Laidlow went with him. Frodeno started losing time early on the bike. Just before halfway on the bike, Mignon and Laidlow almost had a 3min lead over Weiss, Ditlev, von Berg and Currie. Weiss got penalized and needed to serve a 5min penalty and Mignon started to suffer. Laidlow got off the bike over 5min ahead of von Berg with Ditlev a further 40s back. Lange was 12m30 behind in 7th. By the half marathon mark, Laidlow was holding strong with only Lange making inroads but still 9min behind. The whole run everyone was waiting for Sam to blow up and walk! Sam Laidlow is your men’s Ironman Champion…love him or hate him but he knows how to perform on the biggest stages!

Men

🥇 Sam Laidlow (08:06:22)

🥈 Patrick Lange (08:10:17)

🥉 Magnus Ditlev (08:11:43)

Challenge Almere: Full Results here

De Boer got out the water with a 40s lead over Visser and Kiley. Visser and Kiley rode together the whole bike. They rode almost 12min quicker than Christensen and 13min quicker than de Boer. Visser struggled on the run but won with a large buffer. Kiley slipped to 5th. | Men: Koolhaas and Wojt had over 2min after the swim. Koolhaas lead till 90km when Svensson caught him and they rode together until Starykowicz and Lindars joined them in the final few km’s. Koolhaas ran exceptionally well and comfortably won in the end. Lindars failed to keep things together and was unable to stand and needed the barriers to move forward in the last 100m…painful to watch but he is fully recovered!

70.3 Sunshine Coast: Full Results here

Clarke and Hartnett were out the water 30s apart and rode the whole bike together eventually starting the run almost 4min ahead of Slater, Kahlefeldt and Perry. | Men: All the main contenders were out the water together and it stayed that way until the last 15km of the bike when Thompson broke away to start the run with a 60s lead. Free got to within 30s of him but couldn’t quite make the catch.

Karlovy Vary: Full Results here

Jorgensen had around 40s to make up after the swim. Her chase pack caught the lead pack half way on the bike with 12 ladies finishing the bike together. After 5km of running Jorgensen surged with only Klamer managing to hang on. The pair ran together with only a final sprint finish to determine the winner. Winning is a habit? | Men: A group of 8 formed by halfway on the bike. Shortly after this, Pearson made a break for it and hot T2 with a 30s lead. He had the 4th fastest run of the day enabling him to extend his lead to win.

Challenge Almere - 9 September

Half distance with a Silver tier. Women’s SOF: 64.43, Men’s SOF: 78.92. Full start list here.

• Notable Women: Els Visser, Marlene de Boer

• Notable Men: Jesper Svensson, Kieran Lindars, Matt Trautman, Menno Koolhaas, Tom Bishop

70.3 Sunshine Coast - 10 September

Half distance with a Silver tier. Women’s SOF: 79.9, Men’s SOF: 71.52. Full start list here.

• Notable Women: Amelia Watkinson, Lotte Wilms, Rebecca Clarke, Radka Kahlefeldt, Kylie Simpson, Penny Slater

• Notable Men: Steve McKenna, Mitch Kibby, Nick Free, Tim van Berkel

Ironman Nice - 10 September

Full distance with a Platinum tier, Men only and also happens to be the World Champs 😁 . Men’s SOF: 91.52. Full start list here.

• Notable Men: Braden Currie, Rudy von Berg, Bart Aernouts, Cam Wurf, Clement Mignon, Leon Chevalier, Brad Weiss, Denis Chevrot, Joe Skipper, Patrick Lange, Sam Laidlow, Pieter Heemeryck, Jan Frodeno, Magnus Ditlev

World Cup Karlovy Vary - 10 September

Olympic distance and one below the top tier WTCS series. Full start list here.

• Notable Women: Gwen Jorgensen, Rachel Klamer, Julie Derron, Cathia Schar, Marlene Gomez-Goggel

• Notable Men: Jonas Schomburg, Lasse Nygaard Priester, Morgan Pearson, Sam Dickinson, Kyle Smith, Casper Stornes

70.3 Zell am See: Full Results here

Short distance Olympian Perterer lead a very strung out main pack into T1 by well over a minute. The main contenders were in the “pack” except for Kleiser who was almost 4min back. Perterer led until 55km on the bike before a storming Bleymehl caught her with Astle a few minutes back. Off the bike Bleymehl had a 4:21 lead over Astle with Kleiser having cycled up from 14th to 3rd now 5:30 behind the leader. Almost expectedly, Astle didn’t hold the pace on the run due to her extensive calf injury this year and potentially ran conservatively with Kona coming up soon. | Men: Manner had over a minute lead out the water. Similar to the ladies race, he stayed ahead on the bike until Funk eventually made a decisive pass around the 55km mark. Funk got into T2 almost 3min ahead of Manner with Stratmann almost 5min behind. Dreitz came 4th while unfortunately Clavel dropped out.

70.3 Poznan: Full Results here

Konczalla got out the water over 4min behind the leader Krueger and almost 2min behind Curridori. Off the bike she had turned this around to a 2:31 lead over Curridori. She brought it home with the fastest run of the day. | Men: Hirsch had a small 35s lead out the water and extended this on the bike entering T2 over 2min ahead and extended this on the run. Mattner passed Davis in the final few km to take 2nd.

Ironman Wales: Full Results here

Bartlett was 2nd out the water almost 3min behind Ahrens. By 40km on the bike, Bartlett had already established a 4min lead which ballooned to almost 15min into T2. She backed this up with the fastest run to make it a dominant win.

Women

🥇 Nikki Bartlett (09:52:02)

🥈 Heini Hartikainen (10:15:22)

🥉 Johanna Ahrens (10:30:21)

Gerardmer XL: Full Results here

It was an end to end domination by Derron who led out the swim. She had the fastest bike and came into T2 with Pedersen a few minutes back. She had the fastest run by over 5min to really drive it home. | Men: Ceccarelli had a small lead out the water with Wayaffe being over 1min back. Mennesson lead the bike but couldn’t back this up on the run. Wayaffe took the win with the fastest run of the day but Ceccarelli was close behind with the 2nd fastest run keeping the pressure on the whole way.

Super League Toulouse Full Results here

Triple mix format: 3 separate triathlons with a short break between with the order of sports changed each time.

This felt more like a soap opera with plenty drama. Waugh absolutely dominated the first triathlon on the bike and run with last weeks winner Lehair close behind. Spivey took a few steps onto the run course then pulled out which she admitted was the plan as she had an injury concern. On the second triathlon, Lehair bullied the run course to take an early lead but was disqualified for re-fixing her helmet strap while holding her bike in transition (?!). On the 3rd triathlon it was Waugh all the way who comfortably won in the end with Lehair and Spivey not present. | Men: Bergere and Brownlee were the leaders after the first triathlon with the Duracell Bunny Blummenfelt in 3rd. In the 2nd triathlon, Wilde dominated the bike to gain a small lead only to give this up in the swim. Rider started the 3rd triathlon with Wilde, Bergere, Brownlee and Schoeman all in striking distance. Rider crashed on the bike and it was the Wilde and Bergere show as they raced around the technical bike course in true crit style. The drama: coming into T2, Wilde saw 1 lap left on the board and passed Bergere as he was slowing down to dismount. They had some words but amongst confusion, Bergere rode into T2 while Wilde sped right through it. The “1 lap to go” sign was for the athletes that had just been lapped. Bergere was now comfortably in the lead with Wilde having to turn around. Schoeman had a trademark swim to catch Bergere in the water with Brownlee just behind. Bergere ran away on the final leg to win with Brownlee in hot pursuit dropping Schoeman. The drama carried on with an objection that Bergere cycled across the dismount line and wasn’t penalized. This was ruled to be an officiating irregularity and no cause to penalize Bergere.

World Triathlon Cup Valencia Full Results here

Great 3min highlights videos here: Men, Ladies. There was a strung out group of swimmers being led out by Vermeylen containing 22 athletes, including Jorgensen. The flat bike ensured a running race in the absence of any drama and that’s what happened. A small group of runners formed with Jorgensen leading. She broke away with two laps to go to win her first race in 7 years! | Men: Devay had a small gap on the swim and he rode solo in front with Bentley for quite a while before they were caught by the main pack of 15 athletes. Deja vu when Devay and Bentley broke away to gain a few seconds lead into T2. A group of 7 ran together which dropped down to 5 at half way. The attrition carried on with the top two hitting the blue carpet together. There was a 100m sprint to decide the winner.

70.3 Zell an See - 3 September

Half distance with a Silver tier. Women’s SOF: 69.85, Men’s SOF: 81.24. Full start list here.

• Notable Women: Ruth Astle, Daniela Bleymehl, Olivia Mitchell, Daniela Kleiser, Carolin Lehrieder

• Notable Men: Nic Quenet, Maurice Clavel, Andi Dreitz, Ruben Zepuntke, Dylan Magnien, Tom Hug, Jan Stratmann, Aaron Royle, Fred Funk

70.3 Poznan - 3 September

Half distance with a Bronze tier. Women’s SOF: 61.4, Men’s SOF: 67.43. Full start list here.

• Notable Women: Lottie Lucas, Elisabetta Curridori, Agnieszka Jerzyk

• Notable Men: Kacper Stepniak, Thomas Davis

Ironman Wales - 3 September

Full distance with a Silver tier and women’s only. Women’s SOF: 58.56. Full start list here.

• Notable Women: Nikki Bartlett, Jana Uderstadt

Other races:

• Triathlon de Gerardmer - 2 September: Start List TBC

• Austria Triathlon Half - 2 September: Start List

• Challenge Coquimbo - 3 September: Start List

70.3 World Champs: Full Results here

Knibb was out the water with a small lead group, including Simmonds. The other favourites were about 90s behind. Knibb broke away on the bike with only Simmonds keeping pace until the 45km mark. She got off the bike 2min ahead of Simmonds and 5min ahead of the other superstars. Knibb remained strong having the 4th fastest run split. Matthews had the 2nd fastest run of the day catching Simmonds and somehow keeping Pallant-Browne at bay. | Men: A large group were lead out the water by Nieschlag with Blummenfelt a stone’s throw away. Sanders and Long were just over 2min back. The front group was whittled down to 7 with Funk and Margirier the two big names really pushing hard on the bike. Margirier and Funk got into T2 first and had remarkably extended their lead to the chase pack (inc. Long) to over 3:30. It looked to be the strong running Margirier’s race to lose in the opening stages with potentially Nieschlag coming from behind and Funk somewhere in between…BUT Bogen had other ideas. Just after 3km he made a surge and never looked back. Funk kept the pressure on while Margirier faded eventually being passed by Stratmann.

Challenge Davos: Full Results here

An interesting race with the bike only being 54km long due to the two epic mountain climbs and 1,770m of vertical gain 🤯 

Nieuwoudt came out the swim with a 2min deficit but found herself leading by halfway on the bike. She was caught by Brunnee and the pair entered T2 together. Nieuwoudt was class on the run and is now leading the Challenge rankings. | Viain had just over 1min to make up after the swim. Viain reached the top of the first climb a few seconds from the leader Thalmann. By the time they hit T2 he had a 3min lead. Noble lost almost 8min on the technical bike but ran from 5th into 2nd with the 2nd fastest run.

Menen European Champs: Full Results here

Diederiks was almost 3min behind and in 9th place after the swim with Pedersen in the lead. She was by far the strongest rider and consolidated her lead with the 2nd fastest run. Langownik stormed the run coming from around 7th to finish in 2nd. | Naeyaert found himself about 1min behind in T1 with Wayaffe having a similar deficit and Comhair way back in 23rd almost 4min behind. The all Belgian podium were strong on the bike with Naeyaert finding himself at the front into T2. Wayaffe closed down over a minute on the run but ultimately ran out of road.

Super League London Full Results here

3 back to back 300m swim, 4km bike and 1.6km run.

Potter took an early lead of about 6s after the first mini tri. On the second bike, a group of 8 whittled down to just 5, with the run being led by Spivey, Potter, Coldwell, Lehair and Waugh all finishing together. On the last bike, Spivey and Coldwell had a small break away. Waugh brought her dropped teammate Potter back to the front to make a front pack of 4 with Lehair a few seconds behind. Potter faded on the run while Lehair came from behind and had to defend two short chutes from Coldwell and Spivey to take the win! | Yee had a small deficit after the first swim but there was a large group finishing the first mini tri together. A group of 8 mostly stayed together on the 2nd bike but Brownlee, Yee and Reid broke away on the run to get ahead. The 3 leaders had maintained their lead on the last swim and bike and Yee brought it home with his trademark run.

70.3 World Champs - 26/27 August

Half distance with a Platinum tier. Women’s SOF: 91.29, Men’s SOF: 92.4. Full start list here.

• Notable Women: Taylor Knibb, Paula Findlay, Laura Philipp, Emma Pallant-Browne, Daniela Ryf, Holly Lawrence, Kat Matthews, Tamara Jewett, Imogen Simmonds

• Notable Men: Richard Varga, Justus Nieschlag, Gustav Iden, Pierre le Corre, Bart Aernouts, Lionel Sanders, Jackson Laundry, Fred Funk, Mathis Margirier, Ben Kanute, Sam Long, Jason West, Kristian Blummenfelt

Super League London - 27 August

Enduro format which is the nine back to back mini triathlons. Full start list here

• Notable Women: Beth Potter, Sophie Coldwell, Taylor Spivey, Katie Zafares, Fanni Szalai

• Notable Men: Henri Schoeman, Alex Yee, Jonny Brownlee, Chase McQueen,

Challenge Davos - 26 August

Half distance with a Silver tier. Women’s SOF: 65.22, Men’s SOF: 63.32. Full start list here.

• Notable Women: Svenja Thoes, Daniela Bleymehl, Magda Nieuwoudt

• Notable Men: Caleb Noble, Simon Viain, Reinaldo Colucci, Tom Davies

Menen European Champs - 27 August

Half distance with a Silver tier and the “ITU” Middle Distance European Champs. Tough to have to compete with the Ironman 70.3 World champs on the same weekend. Women’s SOF: 63.06, Men’s SOF: 68.32. Full start list here.

• Women: Diede Diederiks, Marta Bernardi, Camilla Pedersen

• Notable Men: Ondrej Kubo, Christophe de Keyser

PTO Asian Open: Full Results here

10min race highlights worth a watch - men’s, ladies. Charles-Barclay didn’t come out the water 1st! Perez-Sala was 2 seconds ahead of her with an almost 2min lead over the main contenders, including Gentle and Sodaro. Haug was about another 40s back. The gap came down quickly with Gentle, Haug, Sodaro and Simmonds all riding very well. Gentle took the lead halfway on the bike with Haug sticking about 40s behind her. Disaster struck for Haug with just over 10km left to ride when her spare tube came loose and wrapped around her cranks and she lost almost 3min. Gentle got off the bike with 30s to Simmonds in 2nd, 2:30 to Haug and 5:30 to Sodaro who couldn’t keep pace on the last half of the bike. Gentle was never under pressure with Haug and Sodaro only running a few seconds faster. | Lots of drama on the men’s with Bishop, Phillips and Royle all having mechanicals. Laidlow pulled out on the bike due to illness, Iden crashed out and even West had a crash and took skin off his elbow. The swim was relatively uneventful with everyone except Long getting out together. By halfway on the bike, Heemeryk had stamped his authority and gained a 40s lead over Noodt and Blummenfelt. This ballooned to over 2min by the end of the bike with Heemeryk absurdly admitting that he thought he still had another lap to ride when he got to T2?! The run started with a sense of how long will it take for Blummenfelt to catch him and can West have a sublime day and maybe leapfrog a fatigued Blummenfelt for the win. Heemeryk ran exceptionally well to only be caught at the 11km mark and in the end he comfortably held off a tiring West.

Ironman Sweden: Full Results here

An absolute domination by Norden for a home race win as she comfortably lead from start to finish. Cheetham briefly rode in 2nd before dropping back to 3rd and Zimmerman briefly ran her off the podium for a few kms before fading to 4th. This is Mathieux’s first “result” since being disqualified at Ironman South Africa earlier this year.

Women

🥇 Lisa Norden (08:47:02)

🥈 Justine Mathieux (08:54:20)

🥉 Susie Cheetham (08:56:16)

Ireland 70.3: Full Results here

A tragic race with two age group deaths, perhaps vindicating all other times when race organizers have chosen to cancel the swim. The swim for the Ironman had already been shortened due to adverse swimming conditions. De Boer turned around an 80s deficit after the swim into a 2min lead off the bike. She only grew this lead on the run. | Quenet and Smith came out within 30s of each other in the swim but Smith gained over 5min on the field during the bike and, on top of this, had the fastest run.

Ironman Mont Tremblant: Full Results here

Zilinskas lead the race until Crowley passed her at 96km into the bike. Crowley held the lead until 120km where she started to lose time and by 150km she was 43s behind sitting in 3rd behind Kessler and Zilinskas. Kessler started the run with a 1:17 lead over Zilinskas and this grew to over 2min at the 10km mark. Zilinskas took the lead shortly after 21km of running and never looked back. Crowley had another tough day on the run and only managed 5th a good 22min behind.

Women

🥇 Rachel Zilinskas (09:12:06)

🥈 Meredith Kessler (09:20:52)

🥉 Manon Genet (09:23:59)

Paris Test Event: Full Results here

Beaugrand was leading soon after T2 with Potter a few seconds behind in 15th. The two eventually dropped everyone with Potter having a decisive kick to drop a cramping Beaugrand to take the win. Knibb started the run in 23rd and ran herself up to 5th to book her spot to the Olympics with Spivey only managing 10th. | Yee ran 29:00 for the 10km with no one being able to keep up. That being said, the top 9, including Blummenfelt in 9th, all ran sub 30min! Wilde crashed his bike earlier in the day so was nursing a hip injury and pulled out early on the run along with Luis. Pearson only started the race at very late notice due to a DNS of a Canadian athlete, found himself leading the race early on the run ahead of Yee. He managed an outstanding 6th place to book his spot to the Olympics. Blummenflet left the race and flew to Singapore to win the PTO Asian Open 2 days later 🤯 

PTO Asian Open - 19/20 August

100km distance with a Diamond tier. Women’s SOF: 91.28, Men’s SOF: 92.02. Full start list here.

• Notable Women: Ash Gentle, Anne Haug, Lucy Charles-Barclay, Fenella Langridge, Chelsea Sodaro, Joce McCauley, Sarah True, Imogen Simmonds

• Notable Men: Gustav Iden, Kristian Blummenfelt, Sam Long, Ben Kanute, Jason West, Sam Laidlow, Daniel Baekkegard, Max Neumann, Brad Weiss

Ironman Sweden - 19 August

Full distance with a Silver tier and ladies only. Women’s SOF: 70.21. Full start list here

• Notable Women: Lisa Norden, Laura Zimmermann, Susie Cheetham, Justine Mathieux

Ironman Mont Tremblant - 20 August

Full distance with a Silver tier and ladies only. Women’s SOF: 66.33. Full start list here. Some awesome big name veterans on the start line!

• Notable Women: Sarah Crowley, Dede Griesbauer (52), Laura Siddall (42), Angela Naeth (41), Melanie McQuad (50), Meridith Kessler (45)

Paris Test Event - Yesterday and Today

Olympic distance dress rehearsal for the Olympics next year - carries A LOT of weight for the federations to decide which athletes they will select. The women raced yesterday (Thursday) and the men will be off early morning French time. Blummenfelt is racing here then shooting over to Singapore to race the Asian Open on Sunday 🤯 

• Women: results here

• Notable Men: Hayden Wilde, Alex Yee, Kristian Blummenfelt, Matt Hauser, Vasco Vilaca, Leo Bergere, Dorian Coninx, Pierre Le Corre, Henri Schoeman.

No Results

Including this to remind you that there were no major events on this past weekend. We have the Olympic test event this week with the ladies starting on Thursday and the men on Friday. Then we watch Gustav Iden with a “revenge win” at the PTO Asian Open on Sunday. A great result may coax him into toeing the line at Nice 🙏