Youth European Championships, World Cups, Ironman and more! Find out who's racing where with our weekend preview.
Jump to: Antwerp ITU Triathlon World Cup | Kitzbühel ETU Triathlon Youth European Championships Festival | Cardiff Triathlon (Super Series & Age-Group Qualifier) | Ironman Ireland | Ironman 70.3 European Championships Elsinore
Antwerp ITU Triathlon World Cup
Newly crowned European champion Beth Potter returns to racing in Belgium this weekend over the shorter sprint distance and is joined by fellow Leeds Triathlon centre athlete Sian Rainsley on the start list. In the men's race Ben Dijkstra, who featured within Great Britiain quartet in Nottingham last weekend, is set to race alongside Loughborough Triathlon Performance Centre training partner Barclay Izzard and Welsh athlete Morgan Davies who finished in the top ten last Saturday at the Nur-Sultan ITU Triathlon World Cup.
Male: Barclay Izzard, Ben Dijkstra, Morgan Davies
Female: Beth Potter, Sian Rainsley
Kitzbühel ETU Triathlon Youth European Championships Festival
Great performances from our GB athletes yesterday at the ETU Youth European Championships in Kitzbühel- with 7 qualifying for the A finals tomorrow????
— British Triathlon (@BritTri) June 21, 2019
Good luck to all our athletes competing this weekend! ???????????????
See the semi-final results below??https://t.co/tcVhfmY2Fo pic.twitter.com/gC4UNbQTvH
The 2019 Youth European Championships Festival takes place in Austria this weekend with individual finals on Saturday and the Mixed Relay format taking place on Sunday. The team representing Great Britain include 2018 Youth Male Super Series Champion, Joseph Martin and Female U20 European Age-Group Sprint Distance Champion, Eden Schiller.
Male: Dominic Coy, Joseph Martin, Jack Stanton-Stock, Hamish Reilly
Female: Bethany Cook, Lizzy Edge, Eden Schiller, Lily Scott
Cardiff Triathlon
Located in the iconic Cardiff Bay, the Cardiff Triathlon has held a number of elite British Championship races in recent year as well as providing opportunities for amatuers to race a traffic free course in a stunning location. This years event plays host to the latest round the the 2019 relaunched Senior Super Series and presents an opportunity to qualify to represent the Great Britain Age-Group team at the 2020 Edmonton ITU Sprint Distance Triathlon World Championships within the racing scheduled.
The elite races can be watched live from 10.30am on Sunday here (or on the S4C Facebook page).
Ironman Ireland
The event in Cork, Ireland is new to the racing calendar and has a sold out field with over two and a half thousand entries in it's first year. Another debut is also being made with double Olympic Champion Alistair Brownlee taking on his first full distance Ironman.
Male: Alistair Brownlee, Robert Drake, Harry Wiltshire, Sam Pictor*, Phillip Graves* (*Possibly withdrawn from event)
Ironman 70.3 European Championships Elsinore
A number of British athletes line up for the European Ironman 70.3 Championships including recent winner in Staffordshire, George Goodwin and former Ironman 70.3 World Champion, Holly Lawrence. Both races have a highly talented number of names listed on the start list with Javier Gomez (ESP) returning to longer distance racing having podiumed at the AJ Bell World Triathlon Leeds a few weekends ago.
Male: Thomas Davis, George Goodwin, Fergus Roberts, Elliot Smales (Adam Bowden has withdrawn with a Flu virus)
Female: India Lee, Franke Sanjana, Claire Hann, Chantalle Cummings, Fanella Langridge, Holly Lawrence
