Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Olympic triathlon is composed of two medal events, one for men and the other for women. Both use the same distances of 1.5 km, 40 km, and 10 km. Mass starts are used and drafting is allowed during the cycling phase. Because of the variability of courses and uncontrollable conditions, official time based records are not kept for the triathlon.
Triathlon has been an Olympic sport since its debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. [1] Its inclusion in the Summer Olympic Games program was the quickest of any sport: [ 2 ] the International Triathlon Union (ITU) was founded in 1989 and five years later, on 4 September 1994, triathlon's Olympic status was approved by the ...
In 1996, Lessing broke the Olympic distance triathlon world record with a time of 1 hour, 39 minutes, 50 seconds in 1996 at the ITU Triathlon World Championships in Cleveland. [5] Lessing competed in the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon held annually in San Francisco Bay. He has won the men's elite division there three times: 1996, 2003 and 2004 ...
The men's triathlon was one of the triathlon events at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. [1] It took place on 7 August 2012, featuring 55 men from 32 countries. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was the fourth appearance of an Olympic men's triathlon event since the first at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney . [ 3 ]
The men's triathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place at the Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo on 26 July 2021. [1] The race began with a false start, as a media boat blocked about a third of the field from entering the water. [2] After the restart, the field remained close together coming out of the water.
On 5 June 2022, Blummenfelt became the first person to complete an Ironman-distance triathlon in under seven hours during the Pho3nix Sub-7 Sub-8 event at the Lausitzring race track in Germany. Blummenfelt set a new unofficial world record for the Ironman-distance triathlon, in a time of 6:44:25. [3]
The Olympic triathlon contained three components; a 1.5 km (0.93 mi) swim, 40 km (25 mi) cycle, and a 10 km (6.2 mi) run. [2] The competitions took the form of a single event between all competitors with no heats.
He is the 2024 World and Olympic champion in standard or 'Olympic' distance triathlon, ... recording the fastest run time of 14:55 but only achieving a 37th-place ...