Author: Harold Dalton

The IRONMAN Group has announced the acquisition of premier multi-day cycling event series Haute Route®, as well as the Gravel Epic®, a soon-to-launch multi-day gravel race event series. With the acquisition of these two brands and series, the world’s largest operator of mass participation sports events adds eight new cycling events to its portfolio of iconic brands and events that includes triathlon, road running, mountain biking, trail running, road cycling and gravel cycling. As part of the acquisition, CEO for the Haute Route Group, Julie Royer, will also join the leadership team at The IRONMAN Group as Senior Director of…

Highlights Report From the stunning Aravis, to the soaring heights of Colombière, and the bold climb to Côte 2000, today was the perfect start to the 10th edition of the Haute Route Alps. The opening stage of this seven-day race from Megève to Nice did not pull any punches with a 110km course with 3100m+ of elevation gain. Brazilian rider Antonio Garnero beat Frenchman Loic Ruffaut to the finish line in a thrilling sprint for the men’s stage win. British rider Lisa Bowyer beat Linda Farczadi to the finish line to take the women’s stage win.

Broadcast start3.15 PM CET9:15am EasternXTERRA Short Track women3.30 PM CET9:30am EasternXTERRA Short Track men4.45 PM CET10:45am Eastern The XTERRA Germany competition is the most traditional XTERRA competition in Europe. Since 2006 the competition takes place in the nature park Zittauer Gebirge in the southeastern border triangle of Germany at the border to Poland and Czechia. The competition is integrated into the complex event weekend of the O-SEE Challenge, which takes place every year on the 3rd weekend of August. The O-SEE Challenge is the largest multi-sport event in Germany and celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2020. Characteristics of the XTERRA…

It’s been a big 24 hours for the pursuit record. A rider we rate highly, Zoe Backstedt, set the new Women Juniors Individual Pursuit World Record with a time of 2’17″489. She’s going places, this one. That’s not a bold prediction, since she’s been winning everything in sight for years, but still. Ashton Lambie set a new world record for the men too. He came in at 3’59″930. Woof.

The Movistar Team announces that Sarah Gigante (Melbourne, VIC, AUS; 2000), a current member of Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank, has signed a three-year contract with the Telefónica-backed squad, through to the end of the 2024 season. A Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Geography student at Melbourne University, Gigante’s lightning progression has seen her becoming one of the biggest up-and-coming talents in the WorldTour. Skilled for many different terrains and notably talented for time trials, the 20-year-old has already got three Australian elite titles to her name: one at the road race, in 2019, and two time trial championships, in 2020 and…

The 2021 Stages Cycling Leadville Trail 100 MTB race, owned and produced by Life Time, welcomed a field of more than 1,500 riders ranging in age from 18 to 74 years old, representing 49 states and 12 countries. Cyclists tackled the famed 100-mile ‘Race Across the Sky’ through the Colorado Rockies as the course brought them through 13,000 feet of net elevation gain, topping out at 12,424 feet. Notably, 43 Leadville citizens proudly represented their hometown, for which the race series is well known and beloved, in the participant field. In the women’s division, Rose Grant, 39, of Columbia Falls, Mont. placed first…

The XTERRA European Championship returns to Zittau, Germany for an action-packed weekend of full distance and televised Short Track off-road triathlon racing on Friday and Saturday, August 20th & 21st.It’s the 12th time XTERRA has raced around Olbersdorfer Lake on the edge of Zittau, a historic town near the Polish and Czech borders, and the fourth time it’s hosted the EU Championship.What is new this year is the adrenaline-filled XTERRA Short Track race on Friday afternoon featuring the sports fastest off-roaders going shoulder-to-shoulder in an exciting prelude to Saturday’s full distance showdown.As the name suggests, XTERRA Short Track is a fast, multi-lap, made-for-TV event combining two 200-meter swim laps with an exit in-between, four 1.5km mountain bike laps complete…

Love the Vuelta? Want to ride it? Want to ride it without leaving your house? Want to ride it without leaving your house with the slim chance of winning something that has Skoda’s logo on it? Then good news: La Vuelta Virtual starts on Sunday! ROUVY is now releasing an immersive 5-stage digital version of the 2021 edition of the Spanish Grand Tour, for everyone to join from home. You can compete virtually on the official courses of the 2021 Vuelta, and win prizes from the race’s sponsors. ROUVY tell us that “Cyclists and fans of all levels can test…