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Former IRONMAN World Champions and leaders honored for their dedication, passion and contributions to IRONMAN IRONMAN, a Wanda Sports Group company, is pleased to announce the IRONMAN® Hall of Fame Class of 2019: athletes Tim DeBoom and Michellie Jones, and IRONMAN contributors Kenneth Gasque and Jan War. The ceremony will be held on Oct. 9 [...]

CHALLENGETAIWAN, Asia's largest triathlon event, has been held for 7 consecutive years in Taiwan's popular triathlon spot, Taitung. More than 5.000 athletes from 30 countries will be participating next year. With its rich culture, natural beauty and resources, Taiwan has many names, including Formosa, the beautiful island, and Treasure Island. The people of Taiwan are [...]

CHALLENGEFAMILY proudly presents a new partnership with Velosock. This partnership will provide the athletes with innovative bike covers which are specifically designed to ensure a safer transportation of race bikes and helps to make travelling with your bike more convenient. Leading the global market of bicycle covers with unmatched design and quality, Velosock draws inspiration [...]

Czech Radka Kahlefeldt Vodičková and German Florian Angert dominated the third edition of FORD CHALLENGEPRAGUE, the biggest triathlon race in the Czech Republic. “It was my first race within the CHALLENGEFAMILY race series in Prague, so the victory means very much to me,” said Kahlefeldt Vodičková. After her daughter Ruby was born, Radka Kahlefeldt Vodičková [...]

It’s official: The Middle Distance Triathlon St. Pölten and CHALLENGEFAMILY are joining forces. The agreement was signed and sealed at CHALLENGEROTH on July 5, 2019. The first ever CHALLENGEST.PÖLTEN will take place on May 24, 2020. A traditional race under a new brand featuring the same proven components: 2,000 volunteers doing their best to support [...]

Epic duel to be refought Defending champion, Daniela Bleymehl, a last-minute entry ROTH. The duel between last year’s runner up, Lucy Charles Barclay, and defending champion, Daniela Bleymehl (nee Sämmler), looks set to be repeated following Bleymehl’s last minute entry into Roth following her DNF at Frankfurt last week due to illness. Just nine seconds [...]

On Sunday, DATEV Challenge Roth kicks off for the biggest triathlon party of the year The official press conference opened DATEV Challenge Roth. When a total of 3,400 individual athletes and 650 relay teams from 84 countries start their race in the Main-Danube Canal near Hilpoltstein on Sunday, July 7, it will be the most [...]

Arthur Forissier and Camille Defer from France captured the 10th annual XTERRA Switzerland off-road triathlon elite titles on a beautiful day in Vallee de Joux on Saturday, June 29, 2019. For Forissier, who won his first-ever XTERRA World Tour major on this course back in 2015, the victory was the sixth of his XTERRA career, [...]

In a high-class race and under extremely high temperatures, Maurice Clavel and Radka Kahlefeldt won the tenth edition of the CHALLENGEKAISERWINKL-WALCHSEE. Clavel initially took the lead from Frederic Funk on the second bike lap and increased the gap during the final half marathon to take the win in an impressive time of 3:50:38 hours. In the women‘s race, Radka Kahlefeldt dominated the event right from the swim  and kept her lead [...]

Registrations for CHALLENGEFAMILY THECHAMPIONSHIP 2020 are open.''This race is like a second home!" After the amazing success of this year’s CHALLENGEFAMILY THECHAMPIONSHIP less than a month ago, with 1500 participating age groupers and professional winners Sebastian Kienle and Lucy Charles, CHALLENGEFAMILY is already looking forward to next year's edition, which will be held on 31st [...]

There’s one man dominating the CHALLENGEFAMILY World Bonus right now: Belgian Pieter Heemeryck already had a very strong lead, but after his victory at CHALLENGEGERAARDSBERGEN he increased the lead on his opponents even more. There have been some changes to the women's ranking after the race results in Geraardsbergen. The German athlete Daniela Bleymehl has managed to take over the lead in the women’s [...]

With an amazing show of power Pieter Heemeryck won CHALLENGEGERAARDSBERGEN today. The Belgian title defender was leading the race almost from start to finish and was obviously the strongest of all racing athletes. ,,It was a surprisingly good race for me." At the women's race it was German Daniela Bleymehl who took the victory after an impressive [...]