In a couple of months it will be time for the London Triathlon – and we want you to join in as part of Team Legion and help make a difference to the lives of our Armed Forces family.
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Money raised from events like the London Triathlon allows us to continue helping members of the Royal Navy, British Army, Royal Air Force, Reservists, veterans and their families all year round, as we have done for over 90 years.
Test your stamina by taking part in the world’s largest triathlon on behalf of the Royal British Legion in order to help serving and ex-service personnel and their dependants.
This event attracts over 13,000 triathletes and 30,000 spectators come along to cheer all of the competitors along. The Royal Docks and landmark-laden cycling route into central London make for a pretty stunning backdrop!
There are distances to suit all abilities, from super sprint to Olympic plus, so if you’re up for pushing your limits and taking on this great challenge to help raise money for an incredibly worthwhile cause, then register here.
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Or contact Fiona for more information: [email protected] / 020 3207 2268.
In a couple of months it will be time for the London Triathlon – and we want you to join in as part of Team Legion and help make a difference to the lives of our Armed Forces family.
Advertisement
Money raised from events like the London Triathlon allows us to continue helping members of the Royal Navy, British Army, Royal Air Force, Reservists, veterans and their families all year round, as we have done for over 90 years.
Test your stamina by taking part in the world’s largest triathlon on behalf of the Royal British Legion in order to help serving and ex-service personnel and their dependants.
This event attracts over 13,000 triathletes and 30,000 spectators come along to cheer all of the competitors along. The Royal Docks and landmark-laden cycling route into central London make for a pretty stunning backdrop!
There are distances to suit all abilities, from super sprint to Olympic plus, so if you’re up for pushing your limits and taking on this great challenge to help raise money for an incredibly worthwhile cause, then register here.
Ahead of tomorrow’s Ironman 70.3 Staffs, Spain’s Javier Gomez says he’s aiming to pick up enough points to qualify for the 70.3 World Champs in Austria.
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>>>Ironman 70.3 Staffs: our pick of the top age-groupers racing
Gomez revealed he had his season planned out months earlier, and is considering the defence of his 70.3 title as important as the 2015 World Triathlon Series.
We’re on-site tomorrow at Ironman 70.3 Staffs, and will be covering the race on Twitter, with full race reports and galleries on this website afterwards. Good luck to everyone racing!
Ahead of tomorrow’s Ironman 70.3 Staffs, Spain’s Javier Gomez says he’s aiming to pick up enough points to qualify for the 70.3 World Champs in Austria.
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>>>Ironman 70.3 Staffs: our pick of the top age-groupers racing
Gomez revealed he had his season planned out months earlier, and is considering the defence of his 70.3 title as important as the 2015 World Triathlon Series.
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We’re on-site tomorrow at Ironman 70.3 Staffs, and will be covering the race on Twitter, with full race reports and galleries on this website afterwards. Good luck to everyone racing!
With Gordon Ramsay leading his GR100 squad into battle at tomorrow’s inaugural Ironman 70.3 Staffs, we speak to him about how it compares to a full Ironman, if Jonathan Ross is still racing – and whether he’s shooting for Kona.
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We’re on-site tomorrow at Ironman 70.3 Staffs, and will be covering the race on Twitter, with full race reports and galleries on this website afterwards. Good luck to everyone racing!
With Gordon Ramsay leading his GR100 squad into battle at tomorrow’s inaugural Ironman 70.3 Staffs, we speak to him about how it compares to a full Ironman, if Jonathan Ross is still racing – and whether he’s shooting for Kona.
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We’re on-site tomorrow at Ironman 70.3 Staffs, and will be covering the race on Twitter, with full race reports and galleries on this website afterwards. Good luck to everyone racing!
All eyes were on reigning world champ Javier Gomez (ESP) today for the 7am start of Ironman 70.3 Staffordshire, and he didn’t disappoint – though he didn’t take the lead until the run.
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Gloriously bright conditions at Chasewater Reservoir were a relief after the sogginess of yesterday, and after a short delay of around 10mins the pro men including GB’s Will Clarke, Gomez and Nick Kastelein (AUS) entered the water.
Kastelein led Gomez out of the 1.9km swim with a 23:33min split, and Will Clarke was around 40secs back in third position. But disaster struck for Kastelein moments later, as he tweeted us:
@220Triathlon unfortunately that’s where it ended. Flatted in first km of bike. @IM703STAFFS
— Nicholas Kastelein (@NickKastelein) June 14, 2015
There were more surprises further into the bike – Germany’s Markus Thomschke took up the lead and managed to establish a 90sec lead over Gomez and Romain Guillaume (FRA), with Will Clarke around 6mins behind the leader.
Thomschke, who placed second at Wimbleball 2012 and sixth at Ironman UK last year, extended his lead over Gomez to 2:30mins coming out of T2, with Guillaume and Clarke around 22secs behind Gomez.
The first pros are on the run course! #IM703Staffs pic.twitter.com/XvjIwd9PoN
— IRONMAN 70.3 STAFFS (@IM703STAFFS) June 14, 2015
Yet more drama followed on the run: Thomschke started to fall back and Gomez took up the lead, establishing a 1min margin by the halfway point. Clarke was still within 10mins of the lead at this point, in fourth position behind BMC-Uplace teammate Romain Guillaume.
From here there could only be one winner, with Gomez near-unbeatable in this kind of position – and so it proved to be, as he crossed the line in 4:02:13, ahead of Markus Thomschke and Romain Guillaume. Will Clarke finished fourth in 4:11:10.
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1 Gomez, Javier (ESP) +00:00 04:02:13 2 Thomschke, Markus (GER) +05:20 04:07:33 3 Guillaume, Romain (FRA) +06:54 04:09:07 4 Clarke, Will (GBR) +08:57 04:11:10 5 Schilling, Alexander (GER) +15:26 04:17:39 6 Fox, Michael (AUS) +16:42 04:18:55 7 Simon, Oliver (GBR) +17:53 04:20:06 8 Harrison, Stephen (GBR) +20:13 04:22:26 9 Williams, Brad (USA) +21:06 04:23:19 10 Cseik, Marton (HUN) +28:00 04:30:13
All eyes were on reigning world champ Javier Gomez (ESP) today for the 7am start of Ironman 70.3 Staffordshire, and he didn’t disappoint – though he didn’t take the lead until the run.
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Gloriously bright conditions at Chasewater Reservoir were a relief after the sogginess of yesterday, and after a short delay of around 10mins the pro men including GB’s Will Clarke, Gomez and Nick Kastelein (AUS) entered the water.
Kastelein led Gomez out of the 1.9km swim with a 23:33min split, and Will Clarke was around 40secs back in third position. But disaster struck for Kastelein moments later, as he tweeted us:
@220Triathlon unfortunately that’s where it ended. Flatted in first km of bike. @IM703STAFFS
— Nicholas Kastelein (@NickKastelein) June 14, 2015
There were more surprises further into the bike – Germany’s Markus Thomschke took up the lead and managed to establish a 90sec lead over Gomez and Romain Guillaume (FRA), with Will Clarke around 6mins behind the leader.
Thomschke, who placed second at Wimbleball 2012 and sixth at Ironman UK last year, extended his lead over Gomez to 2:30mins coming out of T2, with Guillaume and Clarke around 22secs behind Gomez.
The first pros are on the run course! #IM703Staffs pic.twitter.com/XvjIwd9PoN
— IRONMAN 70.3 STAFFS (@IM703STAFFS) June 14, 2015
Yet more drama followed on the run: Thomschke started to fall back and Gomez took up the lead, establishing a 1min margin by the halfway point. Clarke was still within 10mins of the lead at this point, in fourth position behind BMC-Uplace teammate Romain Guillaume.
From here there could only be one winner, with Gomez near-unbeatable in this kind of position – and so it proved to be, as he crossed the line in 4:02:13, ahead of Markus Thomschke and Romain Guillaume. Will Clarke finished fourth in 4:11:10.
A strong field of British women turned up today (14 June) for the inaugural Ironman 70.3 Staffs, including housemates Lucy Gossage and Susie Cheetham, Alice Hector, Georgie Rutherford and Jacqui Slack.
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Rutherford was first out of the water, ahead of Xterra warrior Slack and New Zealand’s Sam Warriner, with Hector and Gossage not far behind.
Georgie Rutherford leads out of the swim; she eventually finished fourth woman
Once on the bike Gossage pushed hard and took the lead by the 37km mark, leading all the way to T2 with a bike split of 2:29:54, and arriving around 7mins ahead of Cheetham and Rutherford. Warriner left transition in fourth place around 12mins behind Gossage, with Hector in fifth.
Lucy Gossage started her lonely run after a bike split of 02:29:54! #IM703Staffs
— IronmanLIVE.com (@IRONMANLive) June 14, 2015
By the halfway point of the run Gossage had built a 10min lead over Cheetham and Rutherford, and that lead grew to 12mins by the time she closed in on the finishing chute, crossing the line in 4:31:09, followed exactly 10mins later by Cheetham, with Warriner taking third place.
A strong field of British women turned up today (14 June) for the inaugural Ironman 70.3 Staffs, including housemates Lucy Gossage and Susie Cheetham, Alice Hector, Georgie Rutherford and Jacqui Slack.
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>>> Ironman 70.3 Staffs: Javier Gomez leaves it to the run for winning move
Rutherford was first out of the water, ahead of Xterra warrior Slack and New Zealand’s Sam Warriner, with Hector and Gossage not far behind.
Georgie Rutherford leads out of the swim; she eventually finished fourth woman
Once on the bike Gossage pushed hard and took the lead by the 37km mark, leading all the way to T2 with a bike split of 2:29:54, and arriving around 7mins ahead of Cheetham and Rutherford. Warriner left transition in fourth place around 12mins behind Gossage, with Hector in fifth.
Lucy Gossage started her lonely run after a bike split of 02:29:54! #IM703Staffs
— IronmanLIVE.com (@IRONMANLive) June 14, 2015
By the halfway point of the run Gossage had built a 10min lead over Cheetham and Rutherford, and that lead grew to 12mins by the time she closed in on the finishing chute, crossing the line in 4:31:09, followed exactly 10mins later by Cheetham, with Warriner taking third place.