Kona Coverage: Straight talk from Ironman CEO Andrew Messick on Kona, Nice...
Triathlon Magazine editor Kevin Mackinnon has a frank conversation with Ironman’s outgoing CEO Andrew Messick, who is happy to celebrate a women’s-only day of racing here in Kona on Saturday. There’s...
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Kona Coverage: Are those people running in their undies?
For 25 years it’s been a tradition here in Kona for athletes to shake off some of their pre-race nerves with the Under Pants Run. Today was no different as over 1,000 athletes took part in the (very...
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Kona Coverage: They said it – the pro press conference in words and pictures
There isn’t much argument here on the Big Island that this is a momentous occasion for the sport – all of the world’s top full-distance athletes are here to compete on Saturday. As far as we know the...
View ArticleHow to watch the Ironman World Championship Kona
Featuring a pro women’s field that includes all the top long-distance names in the sport, tomorrow’s women’s-only Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii promises to be a spectacular race....
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Kona Coverage: 5 Times “lucky” for Lucy Charles-Barclay at the Ironman World...
For Lucy Charles-Barclay, four runner-up finishes here in Kona certainly proved that she had the potential to win the Ironman World Championship, but to truly go down as one of the greats in the sport,...
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Kona Coverage: Ladies Day on the Queen K
It was an incredible day of racing here in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii as the first-ever women’s only Ironman World Championship took place in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. It was a record-setting day on many levels as...
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Kona Coverage: Recapping the incredible women’s racing at the Ironman World...
Madame Pele went easy on the competitors at this year’s Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, forsaking the usual stiff winds to allow for a record-setting day of racing. Lucy...
View ArticleKona Coverage: Looking back at the Ironman World Championship with legend...
There aren’t too many people on the planet who know more about racing on the Big Island than Paula Newby-Fraser (pictured on the right after holding the banner for champion Lucy Charles-Barclay)....
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Kona Coverage: Taylor Knibb’s “comedy of errors” makes for an impressive...
One of the most watched performances at the Ironman World Championship was that of American Olympian and two-time 70.3 world champ Taylor Knibb. The 25-year-old earned her spot in Kona thanks to her...
View ArticleKona Coverage: Els Visser rides 35 km with one leg to earn the day’s final...
When you’ve survived a shipwreck (read her amazing story below) you likely arrive at most races with a remarkably healthy perspective. That’s not to say Els Visser isn’t a fierce competitor – the...
View ArticleEight sports nutrition news tips you can use
Staying on top of the latest sports nutrition news can be a full-time job. Between conferences, webinars and journal articles, I learn a lot of information that I like to translate into practical tips...
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Sam Laidlow lashes out at accusations of cheating
The reigning Ironman World Champion has lashed out at “Some frustrated humans (who) have accused me of cheating the sport.” In a post on Instagram (see below), France’s Sam Laidlow says that he’s...
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Gwen Jorgensen wins World Cup Tongyeong
The 2016 Olympic gold medalist took her third straight World Cup win this weekend, running her way to the win at the World Triathlon Cup Tongyeong in South Korea today, outrunning Japan’s Yuki...
View ArticleRodolphe von Berg Sr. fires back at Sam Laidlow for “slandering me and my...
One of the people mentioned in Sam Laidlow’s social media post yesterday (see story below), in which he confirmed that he is the subject of an International Testing Agency (ITA) investigation, has...
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3 Cool (and 1 crazy) things that happened at Ironman Portugal Cascais
Cascais, Portugal hosted the final European Ironman and 70.3 races of 2023, with over 100 pros and 4,400 age groupers registered for the event. Here’s what we noticed from the big day of racing:...
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Athlete loses race as he stumbles less than a metre from the line
The inaugural Challenge Vieux Boucau in France featured some big names including two-time Olympic gold medalist Alistair Brownlee, reigning Ironman 70.3 world champion Rico Bogen along with draft-legal...
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Ironman adds qualification slots (including 70.3 races) for women’s...
With more than half of the field that raced at the Ironman World Championship in Kona from North America (53 per cent) and just 28 per cent from Europe, Ironman knows that it’s going to be a challenge...
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5 Things to know about the Super League Finale in Neom
Last weekend the Super League Championship Series finished off with its final event in Neom. While Cassandre Beaugrand took the win on the day, she hadn’t competed in enough events to vie for the...
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World champion coach sets fastest-ever age group time at Ironman California
2022 Kona champion Chelsea Sodaro’s coach, Dr. Dan Plews, proved that he “walks the talk” with a standout performance at Ironman California in Sacramento on the weekend, winning the 40 to 44 age group...
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I’m a triathlete – do I really need to warm up?
As someone who works with athletes in-person many times a week I see this all the time – people showing up late to the session and jumping right into the main set, with maybe 50 m of swimming or 400 m...
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