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Chelsea Sodaro and Canyon part ways

2022 Ironman world champion breaks with bike sponsor mid season

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In a short statement on Instagram earlier today, 2022 Ironman world champion Chelsea Sodaro announced that she and Canyon “have decided mutually to end our partnership.”

 

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Sodaro signed with Canyon early in 2023 after winning the world championship in Kona. The company enjoyed a prominent position on her race kit. At the race in Kona in 2022 she competed in a pair of Asics shoes, but her race kit included a Hoka logo – she reportedly asked Hoka to let her out of her contract because she wanted to be able to use the Asics Metaspeed Sky shoes. (Hoka would release a carbon-plate race model shortly before the Ironman World Championship in Kona that year.)

Chelsea Sodaro wore the Asics Metaspeed Sky+ in Kona. She’s since signed on with On.

Earlier this year she rode her Canyon bike to a new course-record win at Ironman New Zealand.

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In addition to signing with Canyon after her big win in Kona, Sodaro would eventually sign with another shoe company early in 2023 – On.

The Ironman World Champion’s gear: Chelsea Sodaro

With the change happening mid season it would seem logical that Sodaro was having some sort of issue with the Canyon bike, most likely with her position. Her shoe switch in 2022 saw her blaze through the marathon in Kona to take the world title. Will a new bike make a similar difference and help her to a big win in Nice, or top finishes at the T100 Series?

We’ll get to see Sodaro racing at the London T100 World Triathlon stop this weekend and will look forward to seeing what bike she’s riding.