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In 2008 Eimear did her first Olympic triathlon, a few weeks ago she was 8th at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Florida.  Florida capped off a season which included 11th spot in the elite world duathlon championships and 5th in the Antwerp Ironman 70.3.  We hope that this will be the first of many [...]

I want to start by congratulating my fellow Irish Athletes who made the trip across the Atlantic to race in Clearwater. We may have had only a few athletes but left with some silverware. Let me introduce myself to the Multisport world in Ireland. In 2001 I made the trip to the States on a [...]

I can’t really start the race report without a little prefix, summarising the last three visits to the big island, which had all been less than great to be honest. In 2007 within two miles of the bike start a giddy German on aero bars decided to get up close and personal to my front [...]

The race in Gavin’s words “Hi Everyone, A quick update to say I finished 7th yesterday in Toscaloosa ITU Premium Cup – the race also doubled as the US National Campionsips. I lost my timing chip somewhere along the route and so the results are currently being updated. (results link) Ill admit I was a little nervous [...]

Ireland’s top ranked triathlete; Aileen Morisson put together this honest account of the irish elites at the world champions series finale in Budapest.  It gives a great insight into what life is like for an elite athlete, from heamatocrit levels to race day tactics. “I arrived into Budapest on Tuesday morning with the SINI physiologist Declan [...]

Gavin Noble has been Ireland’s foremost male triathlete for the past decade, making it to the Commonwealth Games in 2002 & 2006 as well european cup podiums and finishing 11th in last year’s World Championship Series – Japan.  Unfortunately 2010 has been a year plagued by injuries, but with Gavin’s recent wins in Dublin, Kilrush [...]

Aquathlon World Champs This was a warm up race for the triathlon races at the weekend. I arrived in Budapest the evening before to learn that the format was a wetsuit swim. Oddly, the run was shortened from 5k to 2.5k, so a very heavy swim bias. Like last year, there were 3 AG waves [...]

Conor Murphy & Matt Molloy have kick started the Irish Triathlon team with a gold medal at the World Aquathlon championships yesterday, with Ben Shaw a recent recruit from Australia getting gold in the elite junior race.  The Aquathlon Championships act as a lead into this weekend’s World Triathlon Championships. Update Results from all races are [...]

After winning the Pulse Aquathon Series, Greystones Aquathon and finishing on the podium of several early season races, Stephen Early took the rest of the season to concentrate on the channel swim he completed last week.  Here’s Stephen’s channel swim story. “On Sunday morning, 29th August, we had finally done it – what Richard Branson [...]

“Powerman Austria was one of my missed goals for 2009 so I went to Weyer to make amends over the 15.6k – 82.4k – 7.3k distance in the Austrian alps. A recce of the bike course told me this was going to be a sufferfest and my 42T inner front ring was a very bad [...]