ETU: Home win for Huser in maiden Winter European Cup

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Andrea Huser delighted the home crowd with a win in her Winter Triathlon European Cup debut.

The Swiss athlete finished the challenging course in Schwanden in a time of 1:21:47 to claim the gold medal ahead of Russian Tatiana Charochkina. 

Alexandra Borrelly of France was the third remaining athlete in the Women's Elite field.

In the Men's Elite, Daniel Antonioli won his first race of the season by the narrowest of margins ahead of Kristian Monsen (NOR).

Source: ETU

ITU News:USAT Sets 2012 USA Paratriathlon Race Series

With the aim of providing increased domestic competitive opportunities for the nation’s top paratriathletes, USA Triathlon has established the 2012 USA Paratriathlon Race Series, a three-race series held in conjunction with some of the nation’s top multisport events.
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Vote for Photo of the Year 2011 - Week Nine: Final Vote

By ITU(International Triathlon Union)
It’s that time of the year again, to take a step back in time to remember this year’s Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series through the eyes of some of the world’s best sports photographers. They were on hand to capture every twist, turn, and colourful moment in the each and every world series race, but now it’s your turn to decide the official ITU Photo of the Year by voting on your favourite image below. Each weekly winner then earns the right to appear in the ITU Photo of the Year final. In addition to the contest, readers will hear from each event photographer about their favourite shot from the event, which will be published alongside the winning pictures from each week.After eight weeks of voting in the Photo of the Year competition, we have arrived at the final vote. Each of your winning photos from the previous rounds have made the final and now it’s up to you to decide the 2011 ITU Photo of the Year.The eight photos contain some of the most memorable moments in the 2011 season including an Australian beer shower in Hamburg, a couple of emotional finish line reactions, the synchronized Brownlee brothers, a scenic swim start dive in Kitzbühel and a ride past Buckingham Palace in London. What’s your pick for the photo of the year? Cast your vote now!

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Triathlon news: Best of 2011: The 2011 ITU World Cup Series

The courses may have been a mixture of new and old on the ITU World Cup circuit this year, but the podiums were filled with first-time winners in 2011. There were a total of 10 new World Cup winners, and a host more new World Cup medallists, including the first in history for Poland and Slovenia.The season opened in Mooloolaba for the fifth straight year, and Australia’s Brad Kahlefeldt duly saluted at home, and moved himself up to equal sixth all time World Cup winners list with seven overall, while Brendan Sexton and David Hauss claimed their first cup medals with silver and bronze. In the women’s race, New Zealand’s Nicky Samuels rode a bike breakaway to the win, ahead of Emma Moffatt and Barbara Riveros Diaz.Then it was off to Ishigaki, for its sweet 16th birthday. The now legendary Japanese island always has an amazing atmosphere and this was no different, as fans watched Hunter Kemper claim his first cup win since 2005, and Artem Parienko and Marek Jaskolka collect their first medals. Jaskolka’s was the first medal for Poland. Barbara Riveros Diaz had already won a Dextro Energy Triathlon Series race in her career, but hadn’t yet secured a World Cup win. But that changed in Ishigaki, when she completed an early season set of medals for the Chilean star, after bronze in Mooloolaba and silver in Sydney. Aileen Morrison (IRL) claimed silver and Kiyomi Niwata (JPN) bronze.THE WINNERSMOOLOOLABA, AustraliaBrad Kahlefeldt (AUS), Nicky Samuels (NZL)ISHIGAKI, JapanHunter Kemper (USA), Barbara Riveros Diaz (CHI)MONTERREY, Mexico Brendan Sexton (AUS), Sarah Haskins (USA)EDMONTON, CanadaBevan Docherty (NZL), Ashleigh Gentle (AUS)TISZAUJVAROS, Hungary Brent McMahon (CAN), Gwen Jorgensen (USA)HUATULCO, MexicoMatt Chrabot (USA), Ai Ueda (JPN)TONGYEONG, Korea Dmitry Polyansky (RUS), Jessica Harrison (FRA)GUATAPE, ColombiaEtienne Diemunsch (FRA), Carole Peon (FRA)AUCKLAND, New Zealand Kris Gemmell (NZL), Andrea Hewitt (NZL)Up next was a hot day in Monterrey and there were two more first-time winners, with Australia’s Brendan Sexton and the USA’s Sarah Haskins. They beat home Frederic Belaubre (FRA) and Hunter Kemper (USA), and Ai Ueda (JPN) and Anne Haug (GER) respectively.

Hong Kong National Triathlon Championship 2011 - Part 2

Held on October 9, 2011 at Plover Cove, Hong Kong. Time: 07:00 HKT
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Hong Kong National Triathlon Championships 2011 - Part 1

Great! The Hong Kong National Triathlon Championships 2011 replaced from Triathlon Asian Cup Hong Kong 2011. It opened to the public enrollment before. Let's take a look
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ITU News: International Paralympic Committee’s VISTA Conference

Speaking on the second day of the International Paralympic Committee’s VISTA Conference, Yves Vanlandewyck, Professor of Rehabilitation Sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven, told delegates that a more multi-disciplinary approach to classification research needs to be taken.Around 200 sports scientists and researchers, classifiers, coaches, trainers and sport administrators, are in the IPC’s home city of Bonn, Germany for the three day long conference which this year has the theme `A multi-disciplinary approach to Paralympic success’.“One of the greatest challenges in classification is to facilitate collaboration from all those people who have to be there to solve the issues, such as athletes, classifiers and researchers,” said Vanlandewyck, who is also Chairperson of the IPC’s Sport Science Committee.“You need to understand the sport. You need to understand the impairment level and the interaction between both, and you need to understand the concept that we are working with, which is this triangle of impairment, performance and the impact of training.”Classification is a structure for competition which defines which impairment groups can compete in the various sports.Athletes are classified by the degree of activity limitation related to their impairment and/or specific to the tasks in the sport.Another challenge according to Vanlandewyck is the need to keep classification simple enough for people watching, but detailed enough so the sport stays dynamic and competitors within a class are similar in terms of the degree of activity limitation.“You can make classification very simple. In Wheelchair Basketball for instance we could put all athletes in the same chair, give them a high back-rest, strap the trunk to the back-rest and the only thing they can do is move their head and their arms,” he explained.“This would result in not too much difference between a high level paraplegic and an amputee. But it would ruin the sport.“Athletes would never accept it because it would limit the person in demonstrating his whole potential in what they can do. It’s not the way to go.”Vanlandewyck told the audience of the importance of sports specific classification and the need to classify according to events.“In Athletics some classes, such as T53 and T54, are combined in the 1500m, but are split into two classes in the 800m because the impact of the impairment on performance is different,” Vanlandewyck said.In the future...

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ITU opens doors to a new office in Lausanne

The International Triathlon Union (ITU) celebrated the beginning of a new era in Lausanne with the opening of a new office in the Olympic capital. Just prior to the Lausanne round of the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series, which included the ITU Sprint Triathlon World Championships and the ITU Team Triathlon World Championships, the ITU hosted a reception to christen its office and meet its new neighbours at the Maison du Sport International.ITU President Marisol Casado welcomed the guests, among them Olympic Games Executive Director Gilbert Felli, Olympic gold medallists Jan Frodeno and Emma Snowsill, Athletes Committee members Laurent Vidal and Jessica Harrison, Gold Group athletes Andrea Hewitt and Alexander Brukhankov, as well as staff from many other International sports Federations, National Federations and from the City of Lausanne.President Casado spoke of ITU’s dream to continue to build a strong connection with the IOC (International Olympic Commission) and the Olympic family and the establishment of an ITU office in Lausanne would strengthen those relationships.Gilbert Felli also addressed the attendees, speaking about triathlon’s recent history and bright future. He welcomed the ITU with open arms to the IOC’s home city of Lausanne.The new office contains some triathlon memorabilia and photos of all the Olympic gold medallists. ITU’s headquarters will remain in Vancouver, Canada but the Lausanne office will contain the core European staff including most of the Sport Department. The ITU President’s office also remains in Madrid, Spain.
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