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Left to right: Vanessa Fernandes of Portugal (silver), and Emma Snowsill (gold) and Emma Moffatt (bronze) of Australia. 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 ...
The World Triathlon Championship Series is World Triathlon 's annual series of triathlon events used to crown an annual world champion since 2008. There are multiple rounds of competitions culminating in a Grand Final race. Athletes compete head-to-head for points in these races that will determine the overall World Triathlon champion.
Simon St. Quentin Whitfield (born 16 May 1975) is a Canadian retired Olympic triathlon champion.Whitfield won ten consecutive Canadian Triathlon Championships titles and carried the Canadian national flag during the 2000 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in Sydney, where he had won his gold medal, and the opening ceremony at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, making him one of few Canadian ...
An Ironman Triathlon is one of a series of long-distance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), consisting of a 2.4-mile (3.9 km) swim, a 112-mile (180.2 km) bicycle ride and a marathon 26.22-mile (42.2 km) run completed in that order, a total of 140.6 miles (226.3 km). It is widely considered one of the most ...
Jeff Symonds. Jeffrey Bruce Symonds (born October 1, 1985) is a Canadian professional triathlete. His third-place in the 2011 Ironman 70.3 World Championship [2] made him the first Canadian male and the second man in his twenties (after Terenzo Bozzone) to record a podium finish at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships. Symonds won the 2015 ...
Lionel James Sanders (born February 22, 1988) is a Canadian professional triathlete winner of the 2017 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships. In 2017 and 2021, he also placed second at the Ironman World Championship. [3][4] In 2014 he placed fourth in the 2014 Ironman 70.3 World Championship held in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. [5]
Peter Reid (triathlete) Peter Reid (born 27 May 1969 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian elite level triathlete. He has gained fame mainly by winning ten Ironman triathlons, including winning the Ironman World Championship (in Kailua Kona, Hawaii) three times. During his career as a triathlete Reid lived and trained in Victoria, British Columbia ...
View history; General ... Pages in category "Triathlon competitions in Canada" ... 2014 Ironman 70.3 World Championship; 2014 ITU World Triathlon Series;