Month: March 2021

  • WTS Leeds preview

    This Sunday, for the first time ever, the World Triathlon Series will be coming to the city of Leeds. The races are to feature  reigning Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee and […]

  • Bestfest swim week in Mallorca: 3.8km iron-distance race report

    As places to train go, the BEST swim centre in Colonia Sant Jordi, Mallorca, is pretty much every swimmer’s dream. Not only does it centre around a 10-lane 50m outdoor […]

  • Gwen Jorgensen to ride Leeds WTS on new bespoke bike

    This weekend two-time ITU Triathlon World Champion Gwen Jorgensen (USA) is to compete at WTS Leeds on her bespoke Specialized Amira Advertisement Her  team, in conjunction with Specialized and Columbia […]

  • Challenge Venice in pictures

    Dirk Waijnarda finished the full distance triathlon (3.8km swim, 180-km cycle and 42km marathon) in a time of 8:09:14, 10 minutes and 10 seconds ahead of second-placed Sergio Marques of […]

  • Dave Scott Launches Ironman Training Camps in Kona

    Looking to improve your triathlon performance this summer? Then we could have found just the thing… Six-time Ironman world champ and coaching legend Dave Scott has told 220 that he […]

  • Explosive contractions found to improve muscle strength

    The scientists compared short, explosive contractions lasting less than one second with sustained contractions lasting three seconds. They investigated the effect of the different contractions on the participants’ quadriceps muscles […]

  • Jorgensen storms to victory at WTS Leeds

    The home crowd could only stand and stare today as the 30-year-old from Wisconsin hunted down her fellow ITU athlete prey on the final 10km, to take her 17th WTS […]

  • WTS Leeds: Elite women’s quotes

    FLORA DUFFY, 2ND (BERMUDA) Advertisement ON… RACING HARD It’s always my tactic to race hard from the start and try and hit the podium. When I came off the bike […]

  • Ali Brownlee triumphs at WTS Leeds

    The Yorkshire setting. A buoyant and bumper home crowd. A one-two finish. Things couldn’t have been scripted much better for the Brownlee brothers at the inaugural ITU World Triathlon Series […]

  • WTS Leeds: Elite men’s quotes

    JONNY BROWNLEE, GBR, 2ND Advertisement ON RACING IN LEEDS… Basically it was incredible. The support is better than anything else in the world. It’s a good, honest triathlon course. We […]