Releases for Avignon
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Avignon ‘89 World Champion Erin Baker guest stars on latest World Triathlon podcast (Jun 26)
For this week’s World Triathlon podcast, we take a trip back to the early days of the sport, from New Zealand and Australia across to Nice and Hawaii via the first ever...
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ITU caps off 25th year in its birthplace (Dec 15)
Images and text from Triathlete.fr courtesy of Thierry Deketelaere.
A quarter of a century. That is the age of ITU. This weekend, ITU chose to celebrate its birthday...
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Thursday Throwback: The amazing Mark Allen (Nov 06)
Mark Allen’s triathlon story is one of perseverance and triumph, speed and endurance, road blocks and redemption.
Known for his six Ironman wins, most people...
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ITU World Championships turns 25 (Aug 06)
August 6 marks the 25th anniversary of the very first ITU World Championships in Avignon, France. Today we look back at the inaugural race as ITU continues to celebrate...
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ITU celebrates 25th anniversary (Apr 01)
April 1st, 2014 marks the International Triathlon Union’s 25th anniversary, and a wide variety of events and projects will be taking place this year at ITU events...
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20 Years of ITU - 1989 Avignon Race Report pt.2 (Oct 20)
Continuing from the women’s Avignon race report yesterday, we present the men’s race report today, told by the athletes who were there…
The Men
By Timothy...
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20 Years of ITU - 1989 Avignon Race Report (Oct 19)
As ITU celebrates its 20th birthday in 2009 triathlon reporter Timothy Carlson takes a look back at the first world championships in Avignon, France, 1989.
Twenty...