Triathlon NZ
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Will Richardson is a brave young triathlete about to race in the Contact 1:2:1 event at Takapuna this Sunday, just don’t try telling him, this is one 8 year old from St Heliers who doesn’t think he is anything special.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Takapuna will this Sunday ring to the sound of hundreds of triathletes with the hosting of the popular Contact Tri Series for all athletes from age groupers to the best in the country with many races sold out.
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KINLOCH — Teams racing took centre stage at the Contact Tri Series in Kinloch today (February 3), with athletes returning to compete alongside friends, family and in some cases club mates in a fast and fun format of tag racing while the elites raced in the ITU mixed team format for the Oceania Cup that will be seen at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games next year.
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Triathlon New Zealand (Tri NZ) today confirmed its 2013 High Performance Squad, with a total of 14 athletes named in a three tier system by Tri NZ High Performance Director (HPD) Graeme Maw as the sport refocuses for the next 4 to 8 years.
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AUCKLAND CITY — The NZ Transport Agency reminds drivers to plan their journeys this Sunday (20 January) because sections of the Auckland Harbour Bridge and Northern Motorway (State Highway 1) will be closed as part of the course for an international Ironman event.
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WANAKA — Wanaka will this Friday see the hosting of the latest round in the Contact Tri Series and the now traditional ‘Doddsy Challenge’ in the elite men’s race, with $10,000 cash on the line for the winner.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Hot humid and windy conditions greeted competitors in the Contact Tri Series at Pegasus, Christchurch today, in the third round of the seven event series held at the stunning venue of Pegasus, 15 minutes north of Christchurch.
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CHRISTCHURCH — World number 3 triathlete Andrea Hewitt and world number 10 Kate McIlroy will headline the Contact Tri Series at Pegasus, just north of Christchurch this Sunday in a rare home outing for both athletes.
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Popular Ironman athlete Bryan Rhodes will line up at the Contact Tri Series event at Pegasus this Sunday, in part as preparation for Challenge Wanaka a week later, but also to support an event in his hometown of Christchurch and further assist the earthquake recovery.
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TAURANGA — Graham O’Grady and Gina Crawford raced home winners at the Port of Tauranga Half at The Mount today, with O’Grady announcing himself as a world class athlete over the half distance in equalling the race record while defeating former world champion Terenzo Bozzone and 9 times winner Cameron Brown.
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TAURANGA — Graham O’Grady has won the Port of Tauranga Half in impressive fashion today, beating Terenzo Bozzone and Cameron Brown and equalling the race record of 3:47:54 set in 2006 by Nathan Richmond.
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TAURANGA — Graham O’Grady continues to lead the Port of Tauranga Half, extending his lead in the swim to one minute and twenty seconds as the athletes headed out on their 21km run, two laps around the base of The Mount.
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TAURANGA — Graham O’Grady and Gina Crawford lead the POT Half at The Mount this morning.
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TAURANGA — A classic showdown looms at the Port of Tauranga Half tomorrow, with triathlon royalty and a host of pretenders to the men’s and women’s long distance thrones eyeing each other up on the start line at Pilot Bay in Mount Maunganui.
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WHANGAMATA — New Plymouth’s Clark Ellice ran down a plucky Mark Bowstead late in the run to win the Contact Trophy race while Waikato’s Mikayla Nielsen took out the women’s event under cloudy skies at Whangamata today, in the second event of the 7 race Contact Triathlon Series.
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Triathlon New Zealand is thrilled at the naming by the New Zealand Olympic Committee of four promising young triathletes to compete at the Australian Youth Olympics in Sydney next January.
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ROTORUA — The first event in the 7 race Contact Tri Series takes place this Saturday in Rotorua, with racing combined for the first time with the popular Rotorua Half Ironman in and around Lake Tikitapu (Blue Lake) and a number of former and future stars will line up.
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Rotorua is set to welcome in the Contact Tri Series for another summer when it hosts the first round of the 7 event nationwide series this Saturday December 15 at Lake Tikitapu (Blue Lake).
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The hits just keep coming from the Port of Tauranga Half triathlon with news that one of the world’s best over the Half distance will line up alongside defending champion Cameron Brown and a host of other contenders in the elite men’s division.
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The 24th edition of the Port of Tauranga Half triathlon will feature the return of defending champions Cameron Brown and Jo Lawn, with both confirmed for the race on January 5th 2013.
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Triathlon New Zealand today confirmed the continuation of the summer women’s only triathlon and duathlon series, thanks to a new partnership with one of the world’s leading and longest established companies, BISSELL.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Double Olympic medallist Bevan Docherty will embark on a new career in triathlon on home soil, he announced in Auckland today.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Following on from the excitement of the Elite Men’s race, the Junior (Under 19) Men took their turn battling the conditions on Auckland’s waterfront in the Barfoot & Thompson ITU World Championships.
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The Junior Women’s ITU World Championships race was full of thrills and spills at Auckland’s Queens Wharf this morning with two New Zealanders in the top 8, a great result for the team and even more impressive given defending champion Mikayla Nielsen (Waikato) withdrew dramatically when in the lead group on the run, suffering from hypothermia.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Racing for the first time under the New Zealand flag, Bryce McMaster was the best of the Kiwis in the elite U23 men's triathlon World Championships in Auckland today coming home inside the top 20.
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AUCKLAND CITY — The Under 23 women kicked off the Elite ITU World Triathlon Grand Final racing at Queens Wharf, Auckland this morning. Non Stanford of Great Britain won the race, followed by Sarissa De Vries from the Netherlands (coached by former New Zealand coach John Hellemans) and Canadian Joanna Brown.
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Bevan Docherty arrives into New Zealand this morning to compete in the Barfoot & Thompson ITU World Triathlon Grand Final on Sunday, his final race on the ITU circuit before pursuing goals in long distance triathlon events.
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AUCKLAND CITY — The Barfoot & Thompson ITU World Triathlon Grand Final is a huge event attracting thousands of visitors to Auckland and New Zealand, setting records for entries in a wide range of events including Paratriathlon, an event that will debut on the Olympic programme in 2016 at Rio.
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After more than ten years and New Zealand representation at World Championships, Commonwealth and Olympic Games, and multiple World Cup and World Tri Series events, Auckland triathlete Debbie Tanner has decided this weekend’s Barfoot & Thompson ITU World Triathlon Grand Final will bring the curtain down on her career.
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Current world numbers one and two in the ITU World Triathlon Series rankings Erin Densham (AUS) and Lisa Norden (SWE) arrive in Auckland early next week wary of a tough course, huge crowds and home advantage for the Kiwi’s.
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It’s official, the Barfoot & Thompson ITU World Triathlon Grand Final in Auckland from October 14 to 22nd will be the biggest ever, with 3001 registered to take part in official ITU age group world championship races and a further 760 in fun, participation events (entries open at www.triauckland.co.nz).
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TAUPO — Conditions proved almost perfect for the Contact National Duathlon Championships and the National School Duathlon Championships at Taupo Motorsport Park today, with the day dawning cool and foggy but soon clearing to blue skies and warm temperatures for the close to 500 participants.
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As per the earlier women’s race, conditions were nigh on perfect for the men at Yokohama today, with the typhoon of the day before leaving calm warm waters and an air temperature of 24 degrees for the ITU World Series Triathlon.
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Andrea Hewitt will go into the season ending Barfoot & Thompson ITU World Triathlon Grand Final in Auckland on Labour Weekend in 4th place on the world rankings and with a shot at winning the world title after finishing 11th at the latest round in Yokohama this morning.
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The best triathletes in the world will race tomorrow (NZT) at the Yokohama round of the ITU World Triathlon Series in a last ditch attempt to earn points before the season ending Barfoot & Thompson World Triathlon Grand Final in Auckland over Labour Weekend.
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For the second year Taupo Motorsport Park will play host this weekend not to the roar of petrol powered V8 engines but to the more eco-friendly foot and pedal powered athletes in the Contact National Duathlon Championships.
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New Zealand Olympian Nicky Samuels scored a dominating wire-to-wire victory on Saturday evening NZT in Tongyeong, Korea for her second career ITU World Cup title while fellow Kiwi Rebecca Kingsford raced impressively for 7th.
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Triathlon New Zealand has scored something of a coup in the triathlon world with the appointment of highly regarded Graeme Maw to the newly developed position of High Performance Director, Tri NZ.
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New Zealand stood atop the men's podium and one step down on the women's with Bevan Docherty in first place and Nicky Samuels second at the inaugural Beijing International Triathlon on Monday NZT.
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Stephen Bayliss dominated this weekend’s Challenge Henley-on-Thames near London to take the men’s title in record time in 8:29:31 while New Zealand’s Gina Crawford also smashed the course record, taking her 10th iron distance title in the process in 9:08:05.
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The young New Zealand team enjoyed a stunning day at the ITU Continental Cup sprint race in Tahiti yesterday, with a clean sweep of the women’s race and a silver medal finish from Sam Ward in the men’s.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Volunteers are signing up for the upcoming Barfoot & Thompson ITU World Triathlon Grand Final, but organisers need more and are putting the call out to anyone keen on being a part of a significant international event that will showcase Auckland City to the world.
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New Zealand triathlete Terenzo Bozzone has issued the following statement regarding tomorrow’s (NZT) Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Las Vegas It is with great regret that I have to announce that due a sinus infection I am going to have to pull out of the Ironman 70.3 World Champs.
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New Zealand triathlete Bevan Docherty has finished in an impressive third place on debut at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in the blazing heat of Las Vegas today.
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New Zealand’s Melanie Burke finished 7th in defence of her ITU Powerman World Long Distance Duathlon title in Zofingen, Switzerland overnight.
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Olympic silver medallist Javier Gomez of Spain fought off oppressive heat and a spirited effort by crowd favourite Hunter Kemper today to win the 2012 Hy-Vee Triathlon 5150 Elite Cup and take home USD$171,000 in prize money, while Bevan Docherty and Clark Ellice proved best of the Kiwis, finishing 4th and 8th respectively in the rich non-drafting race.
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Four Kiwi men will chase the richest purse in the sport of triathlon this Monday (NZT) at the Hy-Vee Triathlon in Des Moines, Iowa, USA.
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An under strength New Zealand team fought all the way to finish tenth at the ITU World Mixed Team Championships in Stockholm this morning as Great Britain resisted all challengers to retain their crown.
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Tirau’s Rebecca Kingsford has had the call up to pack her gear bag, bike and fly to Stockholm to play a part in New Zealand's efforts at the ITU World Mixed Teams Championship on Monday morning NZT.
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Kris Gemmell and Nicky Samuels proved the best of the New Zealanders at the latest round of the ITU World Triathlon Series in Stockholm, finishing 13th and 16th respectively in the sprint distance race at a new venue for the series.
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Triathlon New Zealand chases a World Championship title and begins building towards the future when athletes line up at the World Team Sprint Championships in Stockholm this weekend, with the Team title on the line the day after points are up for grabs in the latest round of the ITU World Triathlon Series.
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The Barfoot & Thompson ITU World Triathlon Grand Final will enjoy the presence of the flying Brownlee brothers for the elite men’s race around the Auckland waterfront in October, with London gold medallist Alistair and his younger brother and London bronze medallist Jonathan advising that they will be on the start line on Sunday October 21st.
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There was no fairy tale ending for Bevan Docherty and Kris Gemmell as they raced for the final time at the Olympic Games, their brave efforts ultimately fell short of the incredibly high standards set by the new generation in the sport with Alistair Brownlee winning from Spaniard Javier Gomez and the younger Brownlee brother Jonathan.
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So close and yet so far, Andrea Hewitt stayed in touch with the leaders for all but the final few kilometres at the London Olympic Games overnight, fading to eventually finish in 6th place on a day when she just had nothing left in her legs.
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New Zealand’s Olympic Triathlon team members are all taking an ‘under the radar’ approach ahead of their races in London.
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The Olympic Women's Triathlon starts at 7:55pm (NZ time) on Saturday August 4th with Hewitt competing along with Kate McIlroy (Wellington) and Nicky Samuels (Wanaka).
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New Zealand’s leading female triathlete Andrea Hewitt will head into the London Olympics mentally fresh and in the best form of her career.
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London-bound Kate McIlroy and Nicky Samuels both came away with impressive results at the latest round of the ITU World Triathlon Series in Hamburg, Germany this morning.
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23rd July 2012 The Kiwi women raced superbly this morning with Kate McIlroy and Nicky Samuels showing terrific form at the latest round of the ITU World Triathlon Series in Hamburg, Germany.
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The New Zealand men’s Olympic Team have all come through unscathed at the latest round of the ITU World Triathlon Series in Hamburg, Germany this morning (NZ time).
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All media are advised of two separate teleconferences following this weekend’s round of the ITU World Triathlon Series in Hamburg, Germany.
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New Zealand’s London-bound triathletes have one final hit out before the Olympic Games when they race at the latest round of the ITU World Triathlon Series in Hamburg, Germany this weekend.
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The Contact National Schools Triathlon Championships will be hosted at Pegasus, just north of Christchurch, in March next year.
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The three Kiwis racing at the latest round of the ITU World Cup circuit in Tiszaujvaros, Hungary have come away with some valuable experience.
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All the New Zealanders racing at the latest round of the ITU World Cup circuit in Tiszaujvaros in Hungary have qualified for tomorrow’s finals, surviving the new format of two day sprint semi-finals and finals racing.
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Cameron Brown, Gina Crawford and Nelson based German Britta Martin all raced superbly to secure top 5 finishes at Challenge Roth in Germany.
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New Zealand Olympic reserve Clark Ellice has produced a big win this morning (NZ time) at the Liverpool 5150 Triathlon.
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ROTORUA — Dates and venues for the ever popular Contact Tri Series were released today, with the highlight being a new (warmer) date and joint venture event in Rotorua, the return of Oceania titles at the Wellington Standard Distance Nationals and the introduction of Teams racing at the National Sprint Championships in Kinloch.
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Wanaka’s Tony Dodds proved the best of the Kiwis in Austria this morning (NZ time), finishing 10th at the Kitzbuhel round of the ITU World Triathlon Series.
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New Zealand’s London bound triathletes have raced brilliantly in Austria this morning (NZ time), at the latest round of the ITU World Triathlon Series.
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All but two of New Zealand's London bound triathletes will race in Austria this weekend, using the latest round of the ITU World Triathlon Series as a 'tune up' for the London Olympic Games.
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London Olympian Bevan Docherty continued his progress in his search for a third medal to go with his silver from Athens and bronze from Beijing with a third place finish at the famous Escape From Alcatraz triathlon in San Diego yesterday while Clark Ellice raced strongly for a podium finish in Austria and Callum Millward finished tied for first in Boise, Idaho.
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Triathlon New Zealand today tabled their independent review into the Triathlon High Performance Programme (HPP), a document commissioned by the NSO to ensure they remain at the global leading edge in producing elite triathletes who in turn will be successful at pinnacle events.
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The independent review into the Triathlon New Zealand High Performance Programme will be published tomorrow morning, with a media briefing to follow.
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Three New Zealand triathletes, led by Cameron Brown, have finished on the podium across the Tasman today at Ironman Cairns.
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Hot on the heels of New Zealanders Cameron Brown, Belinda Harper and Candice Hammond standing on the podium at Ironman Cairns, yet more New Zealanders featured highly at the Ironman 70.3 in Hawaii, a forerunner to October's World Ironman Championship, with 3 men in the top ten and representation on the women's podium.
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Demand is expected to be high tomorrow (Friday) when entries for the 3:5:3 Solo and 3:5:3 Teams races at the Barfoot & Thompson World Triathlon Grand Final go live and former Olympic gold medallist Hamish Carter aims to beat the rush and be amongst the first to enter in a race that for him is all about fun and nothing more.
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NEW PLYMOUTH — Entries are now open for the 2013 Wells New Plymouth Half Ironman, which is shaping up as a ‘must-do’ on the domestic triathlon calendar.
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New Zealand qualified three women for the London Olympic Games at the latest ITU World Triathlon Series race in Madrid, Spain this morning NZT while Andrea Hewitt did enough to move up to second on the world rankings.
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A teleconference to talk to National Coach Greg Fraine will be set up for 8am Sunday 27th May.
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There are two objectives for the two athletes racing in Madrid this weekend at the latest round of the ITU World Triathlon Series.
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The New Zealand men have enjoyed one of their most successful ITU World Triathlon Series events ever, with three athletes coming home inside the top ten to cement their overall ranking inside the top 8 countries in the world and all but guarantee 3 starting spots at the London Olympic Games.
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New Zealand has strengthened its hold on a top 8 place in the Olympic women’s rankings despite Debbie Tanner being brought down in a crash in San Diego earlier today at the latest round of the ITU World Triathlon Series.
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New Zealand will be well represented at the latest round of the ITU World Triathlon Championship Series in San Diego this weekend, the spiritual ‘birthplace’ of triathlon.
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Triathlon New Zealand is delighted to announce that SUBWAY® restaurants is to be the official naming rights partner to the ‘SUBWAY® Triathlon New Zealand Youth Academy'.
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