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European Triathlon Championships. 2015 Geneva. Individual. Kristian Blummenfelt (born 14 February 1994) is a Norwegian triathlete, Olympic and world champion, competing at short course (sprint and standard distance), 70.3 (half-Ironman) and 140.6 (Ironman) distances. He won the gold medal in the men's triathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics held ...
Kristian Blummenfelt of Norway won the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship in St. George on Saturday, beating American Ben Kanute to the finish line.
For a performance to be ratified as a world record by World Athletics, the marathon course on which the performance occurred must be 42.195 km (26.219 mi) long, [34] measured in a defined manner using the calibrated bicycle method [35] (the distance in kilometers being the official distance; the distance in miles is an approximation) and meet other criteria that rule out artificially fast ...
The fastest times to complete a half-iron distance race for men and women were both set at the 2019 Ironman 70.3 Bahrain by Kristian Blummenfelt and Holly Lawrence. [17] While these remain the fastest times for any Ironman-branded 70.3 race, they were achieved on a 53.9-mile (86.8 km) bike course, [ 18 ] noticeably less than the standard 56 ...
Ironman 70.3 races consist of a 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike and 13.1-mile half marathon run. Most full Ironman races have a time limit of 16 or 17 hours to complete the race.
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 ...
Judith Som, 82, just ran her 21st NYC Marathon and has advice to share. The 82-year-old Judith Som just can’t and won’t stop racing through her favorite city. Her passion for running (and for ...
2008. A pacemaker or pacesetter, sometimes informally called a rabbit, [1] is a runner who leads a middle- or long-distance running event for the first section to ensure a high speed and to avoid excessive tactical racing. Pacemakers are frequently employed by race organisers for world record attempts with specific instructions for lap times.