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North America’s west coast was busy on the triathlon entrance this weekend. We covered T100 Vancouver, and additional south there was additionally the inaugural IRONMAN 70.3 Northern California in Redding.
American Jason West took a really aggressive males’s race, blasting by the run to complete nearly two minutes up on Canadian Jackson Laundry, with American Sam Long taking third and Lionel Sanders ending fourth. There have been three Canadians within the high 5 of the boys’s race, with Luke Tasker ending one spot behind Sanders.
| Place | Name | Country | Overall | Swim | Bike | Run |
| 1 | Jason West | USA | 3:39:23 | 0:26:21 | 2:02:07 | 1:08:49 |
| 2 | Jackson Laundry | CAN | 3:41:13 | 0:26:36 | 1:58:27 | 1:13:41 |
| 3 | Sam Long | USA | 3:43:50 | 0:28:42 | 2:00:32 | 1:12:30 |
| 4 | Lionel Sanders | CAN | 3:45:35 | 0:28:44 | 2:00:26 | 1:13:51 |
| 5 | Luke Tasker | CAN | 3:48:08 | 0:28:09 | 2:03:25 | 1:13:48 |
| 6 | Greg Harper | USA | 3:48:18 | 0:25:41 | 2:08:24 | 1:11:42 |
| 7 | Ben Randall | USA | 3:48:48 | 0:33:13 | 2:05:28 | 1:07:10 |
| 8 | Colin Szuch | USA | 3:49:31 | 0:28:41 | 2:04:47 | 1:13:18 |
| 9 | Nicholas Chase | USA | 3:51:49 | 0:28:12 | 2:05:15 | 1:15:50 |
| 10 | Connor Weaver | USA | 3:53:04 | 0:28:14 | 2:10:44 | 1:11:33 |
American Grace Alexander cruised previous swim chief Rebecca Clarke (NZL) on the bike and held robust to take the ladies’s title forward of Clark and fellow American Clare Dasso.
| Place | Name | Country | Overall | Swim | Bike | Run |
| 1 | Grace Alexander | USA | 4:17:02 | 0:27:51 | 2:19:05 | 1:27:04 |
| 2 | Rebecca Clarke | NZL | 4:18:28 | 0:27:22 | 2:22:09 | 1:25:57 |
| 3 | Clare Dasso | USA | 4:19:02 | 0:28:37 | 2:21:21 | 1:26:25 |
| 4 | Leah Parker | USA | 4:20:31 | 0:29:56 | 2:23:34 | 1:23:53 |
| 5 | Emma Skaug | CAN | 4:20:32 | 0:29:50 | 2:19:36 | 1:28:12 |
| 6 | Annamarie Strehlow | USA | 4:22:27 | 0:32:41 | 2:21:20 | 1:25:03 |
| 7 | Rebecca Kawaoka | USA | 4:22:27 | 0:32:52 | 2:24:00 | 1:22:34 |
| 8 | Lisa Becharas | USA | 4:22:42 | 0:32:46 | 2:17:21 | 1:29:30 |
| 9 | Marley Beckett | CAN | 4:23:55 | 0:30:54 | 2:23:08 | 1:26:39 |
| 10 | Marissa Lovell | USA | 4:28:20 | 0:34:00 | 2:31:50 | 1:17:37 |
IRONMAN Leeds Swim Cancelled
Blue-green algae ranges in Waterloo Lake pressured the IRONMAN Leeds race organizers to cancel the swim at IRONMAN Leeds on the weekend. The occasion was was a duathlon, with athletes heading off in a rolling begin of the 112-mile bike adopted by the marathon run.
IRONMAN despatched out a press release by way of social media, which some athletes noticed earlier than they obtained official discover of the cancellation:
“In conjunction with Leeds City Council and following the recommendation of the UK Health Security Agency Environmental Hazards Team, we’re disenchanted to announce that in the present day’s swim apply and the swim portion of Sunday’s race is not going to happen.“
“The recent hot weather across the UK has led to a bloom of blue-green algae, which can be hazardous to humans.”
T100 Vancouver Inspiration
After the thrilling professional ladies’s race on Saturday (together with the dash and Olympic distance races and a junior growth race), it was the age-groupers flip to tackle the 100 km distance in Vancouver on Sunday.
We highlighted one of many athletes who was competing in Saturday’s dash final week – David Walker. We’re blissful to report that Walker completed the dash in 2:33:22, rounding out his triathlon profession in fashion!
Another inspirational athlete who competed on Saturday was Ray Wiss, who fought in Afghanistan and carried a flag to recollect/honour two colleagues sadly misplaced in motion. He did the race in full tactical navy gear and fight boots. Wiss completed the race in 6:33:02.
Supertri Announces Yee/ Wilde Showdown at Championship
Supertri has confirmed that Alex Yee and Hayden Wilde will likely be available for the Pro Series Final in Jersey on September 6. The two could have their work lower out for them as the sphere may even embrace reigning world champion Matt Hauser.
The ladies’s subject will embrace Olympic champ Cassandre Beaugrand, Georgia Taylor-Brown and reigning Supertri champ Jeanne Lehair.
No Kona for Leon Chevalier This Year
After ending fifth on the IRONMAN World Championship in Nice in 2023, then fourth a 12 months later in Kona, France’s Leon Chevalier has struggled to regain that very same kind for the final couple of years. A runner-up end at IRONMAN 70.3 Swansea final 12 months has been the spotlight, however for essentially the most half he’s been struggling to be at his finest. He’s since give you some solutions, which he handed alongside in an Instagram put up explaining why he received’t be in Kona later this 12 months:
“After talking to a friend (who is also a doctor 😉) we explored the possibility of having ended up with nervous system dysregulation, a condition where the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems are out of whack, and the body is constantly in an elevated, heightened awareness state of “flight or fight”, which compromises restoration and the physique’s capacity to change on and off when vital,” Chevalier wrote. “In my particular case, my nervous system also seems to have associated racing and hard sessions (the “higher stakes”) with imminent hazard, and the physique shuts down in an try to guard me from “harm”. Since then I’ve explored this with my coach, psychologist and physician and it’s now fairly clear that this has been what has affected my racing this 12 months.”
We’ll hope that Chevalier can get better and return to racing at his finest quickly.
Life Time Grand Prix Announces 2027 Qualifying Process and Schedule
Slowtwitch is available for this weekend’s Gravel Worlds occasion, so keep tuned for many protection from Lincoln, Nebraska.
Life Time has introduced a brand new qualifying course of for subsequent 12 months’s Life Time Grand Prix, together with the expanded seven-race schedule for subsequent 12 months’s sequence. According to Life Time:
The new system creates a performance-based entry course of for the 25-woman and 25-man fields. The high 10 ladies and high 10 males from the ultimate 2026 Life Time Grand Prix standings will obtain computerized invites for the 2027 season, alongside the top-performing lady and man from the 2026 U23 program.
The remaining 14 spots in every subject will likely be decided by the brand new Sea Otter Grand Prix Qualifier in the course of the Life Time Sea Otter Classic in Monterey, CA. Riders competing within the Pro class will qualify based mostly on mixed outcomes from two occasions: Life Time Sea Otter Classic Gravel on Thursday and Life Time Sea Otter Classic Fuego XL on Saturday. The gravel race may even function the opening spherical of the seven-event championship in 2027, with factors counting towards an athlete’s total rating upon qualification.
Next 12 months’s schedule contains:
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