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Big weekend review: A Bayliss double, Paterson claims World Title and breakthrough Abraham performance.
It was a huge weekend on the WTC circuit and most of the headlines were written at Ironman Lanzarote – namely Graves suicide drive on the bike and the Bayliss’ demonstrating the perfectly paced Ironman to take double podiums.
Lanzarote wasn’t the only race though and British Isles triathletes were performing at Ironman Texas, Columbia, the ITU World Cross Tri World Championships and much more.
Bella and Stephen Bayliss grab a double podium
Ironman Lanzarote promised to be a cracker and it delivered. British pro racers played a massive part in this classic version of the Ironman race and many played their parts in today’s drama.
At the sharp end, it was Clan Bayliss who demonstrated their permanent class - to remind everyone of what a dominant force they are when trained and peaked. Both claimed second in their respective categories, with perhaps Bella grabbing more of the headlines being as it was her first race at this distance for over a year.
Read on to find out the results of Ironman Lanzarote and how all our racers from the British Isles did.
Video Interview: Dan Halksworth talks about his chances ahead of his Ironman debut
Dan Halksworth has had an amazing start to the year - taking 2nd at Challenge Fuerteventura.
Whilst the plan was to always race the longer stuff, it wasn’t supposed to be until 2013/14 but these series of top performances have indicated to his coach Brett Sutton, that he is ready to take the next step.
Racing today at Ironman Lanzarote, Dan hopes to put in the kind of performance that his earlier results have indicated are possible. I’ve tipped him to come top 5 here.
Enjoy the interview below, conducted by James Mitchell, prior to the race starting.
Weekend Preview: Ironman Lanzarote, Ironman Texas and much more….
It’s a big weekend on the WTC Ironman circuit this weekend - with the series rolling into Europe and one of the biggest US races in town. When you add to the mix Ironman Florida 70.3, Ironman Austria - and on the domestic scene the Marazion Middle - there’s lots of build up to cover.
Here is your weekly round up of who is racing where!
Nico Munoz Ward out of Ironman Lanzarote
Pro triathlete, Nico Munoz Ward, has announced that he has been unable to recover from his injury in time for Ironman Lanzarote and has been forced to withdraw from his hometown race.
Bryan McCrystal links up with new sponsor
Bryan McCrystal, Ireland’s answer to Lance Armstrong (he’s a mean fast biker!) has today announced a new sponsorship deal with Tommy the Bike, Dundalk.
Tommy the Bike is McCrystal’s local bike store and as part of the link-up they have supplied him with a speed machine - the Trek Speed Concept 9.9.
McCrystal blogged:
Everyone loves speed, we all try and find ways to get faster without doing the hard work. ie training. If thats your strategy, open up the cheque book and say hello to Mr Trek. If you accuse me for buying speed I am guilty as charged. Lock me up and throw away the key and put me away for a long time! I’ve been a bad man
This truly is a dream bike that I can’t wait to ride!
Bryan McCrystal and his new speed machine are next due out for a ride at Ironman Lanzarote on May 19th,
Interview: Phil Graves to toe the line at Ironman Lanzarote
There had been a couple of rumours that Ironman pro, Philip Graves, was intending on racing at the upcoming Ironman Lanzarote race. This wasn’t in Graves initial race plans this year and might have been just a juicy race rumour… so I caught up with him to find out more.
Halksworth confirms entry to Ironman Lanzarote
Fresh from his 2nd at Challenge Fuerteventura last weekend, Dan Halksworth has confirmed that he will be making his long distance debut at Ironman Lanzarote.
In our interview yesterday, Dan said that his schedule was unsure but he and Brett Sutton were looking at bringing forward his plans and racing long in 2012.
His promising results in Feurteventura and Abu Dhabi have obviously provided enough evidence that he is ready to compete long and he will be making his debut in Lanzarote on the 19th May.