Bayliss and Comerford confirm for Ironman UK

UK Ironman athletes Stephen Bayliss and Bella Comerford have added their names to the growing British contingent at the UK Ironman 70.3 and Ironman UK Triathlons for 2007.

The couple will race the UK Ironman 70.3 at Wimbleball Lake on June 17th 2007 and the Ironman UK event on August 19th at Sherborne Castle in Dorset as part of their gruelling 2007 season schedule. Read the story »

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Lisbeth Kristensen Wins Again

When Normann Stadler won his first Ford Ironman World Championship he had but one sponsor. Lisbeth Kristensen, this year's Soul Ironman Western Australia woman's champion can top that. She has no sponsors. In fact, she set a bike course record on a borrowed bike! Read the story »

Jason Shortis: An Australian Ironman Legend

What makes a legend? Something or someone who is extraordinary in multiple ways and does it consistently year in, year out. Jason Shortis is the consummate professional, gracious champion, devoted family man and all around nice guy. Now he also holds the record for the fastest Ironman time ever in Australia. Yep, Shorto has the stuff that legends are made of. Read the story »

Ficker Celebrates Her Birthday, And Her Finish, Watching NBC

As she got closer to the finish line on Alii Drive last October, Desiree Ficker was sure that either Gina Kehr or Lisa Bentley was going to catch her, and she would find herself sprinting to the line. She tried to prepare herself mentally for the all-out effort that was coming. Unless race leader Michellie Jones completely folded, a win wasn't in the cards, but a second at the Ford Ironman World Championship ... that still meant a lot. It was worth the pain that was likely to come. Read the story »

Another win for Comerford, an incredible debut for Raphael

Scotland's Bella Comerford once again managed to get to the line ahead of the rest of her competition here in Panama City Beach today, taking the lead by mile three of the marathon and never looking back as she claimed her fourth Ford Ironman Florida title. Read the story »

A proud Ironman champion

Normann Stadler's second Ford Ironman World Championship title means more to him than his first, he told us at yesterday's press conference. Read the story »

An impressive new women's champion

She was more than happy with second last year. She was more than happy with second at the Olympic Games in 2000. Other people seemed to think she shouldn't be, though ... and we get to thank some of those people for the fact that we have a new Ford Ironman World Champion. Read the story »

Another Win for Schumacher

In 1998, when Katja Schumacher won her first Ironman in Germany, she overcame not only a tough field, but cold, rainy conditions that seemed almost too much for her competition. On that day, as other athletes shivered their way off the bike, Schumacher rode to the lead, and never looked back. Read the story »

A First Win For Forster

Markus Forster lived up to the promise he has always shown as a triathlete earlier this month in winning the Ford Ironman Wisconsin event in Madison. A member of Germany's national junior team more than a decade a go, Forster moved up to the Ironman distance in 2000, placing fifth at Ironman Switzerland. Read the story »

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