What’s on tap this weekend?

It will be a very busy weekend in the triathlon and duathlon world. We’ve highlighted the most notable one’s from around the globe.

Saturday May 1, 2010

Ironman St. George

Pro Start List

Men

2 Jozsef Major HUN

3 Chris Mcdonald AUS

4 Luke Bell AUS

2 Jozsef Major HUN

3 Chris Mcdonald AUS

4 Luke Bell AUS

5 Kirill Kotsegarov EST

6 Paul Amey GBR

7 Craig Howie USA

8 Christian Brader DEU

9 Steve Osborne GBR

10 Clemens Coenen DEU

11 Markus Strini AUT

12 David Castro ESP

13 Nils Goerke DEU

14 Michael Weiss AUT

15 Tim Snow USA

16 Karol Dzalaj SVK

17 Alex Mcdonald USA

18 Chris Casey USA

19 Ben Hoffman USA

20 Swen Sundberg DEU

21 Brendan Halpin USA

22 Trevor Wurtele CAN

23 Anthony Toth CAN

24 Tim Surface USA

25 David Sharratt CAN

26 Petr Vabrousek CZE

27 Sergio Marques PRT

28 Nathaniel Faulkner CAN

29 Martin Lamontagne Lacasse CAN

30 Shingo Tani JPN

31 Sergio Quezada Ruiz MEX

32 Jerome Bresson CAN

33 Chris Bagg USA

34 Matt Lieto USA

36 Scott Defilippis USA

37 Alessandro Valli ITA

38 Eneko Elosegui ESP

39 Olly Piggin NZL

Women

45 Gina Crawford NZL

46 Caitlin Snow USA

47 Kate Major AUS

48 Heather Wurtele CAN

49 Katya Meyers USA

50 Irene Kinnegim NED

51 Meredith Kessler USA

52 Lyne Bessette CAN

53 Jennifer Luebke USA

54 Zsuzsanna HarsanyiHUN

55 Terra Castro USA

56 Nikki Butterfield NZL

57 Jocelyn Wong USA

58 Andrea Steinbecher DEU

59 Janelle Morrison CAN

60 Inge Vancauwenberghe BEL

61 Miranda Alldritt CAN

62 Molly Hummel USA

63 Kathleen Pallardy USA

Nancy ETU Duathlon European Championships

The Elite, U23 and Junior individual races take place on Saturday, May 1, with the Team Mixed Relay, Age-Group and Paratriathlon events on Sunday, May 2.

Who to look out for?

Men

Andreas Sutz (SUI) -1st, 2009 ETU Duathlon European Championships (Budapest, HUN)

Laurent Galinier (FRA) – 2nd, 2009 ETU Duathlon European Championships

Sergey Yakovlev (RUS) – 3rd, 2009 ETU Duathlon European Championships

Victor Manuel Del Corral Morales (ESP) – 5th, 2009 ITU Duathlon World Championships (Concord, USA)

Lino Barruncho (POR) – 8th, 2009 ITU Duathlon World Championships

Sergio Silva (POR) – 4th, 2009 ITU Duathlon World Championship, U23 Duathlon World (Corner Brook, CAN) & European Champion (Rimini, ITA) in 2006

Antoine Duvivier (BEL) – 2nd, 2009 ITU Duathlon U23 World Championships (Concord, USA)

Women

Sandra Levenez (FRA) – 2nd, 2009 ITU Duathlon World Championships

Ruth Van der Meijden (NED) – 4th, 2009 ITU Duathlon World Championships and 2009 ETU Duathlon European Championships

Evgenia Sukhoruchenkova (RUS) – 2009 U23 Duathlon World Champion

Deniz Demaki (GRE) – 3rd, 2008 ETU Duathlon Eruopean Championships (Serres, GRE)

Alexandra Louison (FRA) – 2nd, 2008 ETU Duathlon European Championships in 2008

Elite men’s start list >>Elite women’s start list >>

Subic Bay (Philippines) ITU Triathlon Asian Cup

Elite, U23 and Junior Triathlon Asian Championships

XTERRA RustMan Epic (Louisiana, USA)

The XTERRA Rustman Epic launches a brand new genre for XTERRA at Lincoln Parish Park in Ruston, Louisiana on Saturday. The Rustman will consist of a 1 mile swim, 35 mile mountain bike and 10.5 mile trail run (The typical XTERRA race is a 0.9 mile swim, 20 mile bike and 6.2 mile run). The race will offer championship points (100 point Scale) to amateur racers competing in the XTERRA America Tour. Athletes doing both races (the Rustman Epic and the XTERRA Gator Terra on Sunday) will vie for the XTERRA Rustman Double Award – the fastest combined times for the 2 Off-Road Triathlons (overall: Male & Female – 3 deep).

Sunday May 2, 2010

Ironman 70.3 St. Croix

Pro Start List

Men

Craig Alexander

Tim O’Donnell

Richie Cunningham

Terenzo Bozzone

Fredrick Van Lierde

Dirk Boeckel

M. Cigana

A. Degasperi

Dejan Patrcevic

Tyler Butterfield

Patrick Evoe

Dominic Gillen

Toby Jameson

Maxim Kriat

Fraser Cartmell

Ryan Power

Romaine Gullaume

Women

Catriona Morrison

Mirinda Carfrae

Heather Gollnick

Nina Craft

Amanda Lovato

Nikki Butterfield

Tereza Macel

Anne Basso

Erin O’Hara

Sam Warriner

XTERRA Gator Terra (Louisiana, USA)

The long-standing (June 1, 1997 – the first ever XTERRA branded event) XTERRA Gator Terra off-road tri features an 800 yard swim, 10 mile bike, 3.4 mile run, and will offer (75 point Scale) XPS series points.

XTERRA Uwharrie (North Carolina, USA)

Open Category 1km swim, 26 km bike, 10 km run

Sport Category 500m swim, 13 km bike, 5 km run