Triathlon
Triathlon trio selected for Euro Champs
Three Team Bath triathletes have been selected to represent Great Britain at next weekend’s European Championships in Copenhagen.
Julie Dibens is a member of the five-strong GB women’s senior team for the championships, while teenagers Aaron Harris and Mark Threlfall are both members of the junior boys team. All …
Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Dibens is national champ
Julie Dibens captured her first elite British National Championships title at the Corus British Elite triathlon races in Tredegar, Wales on Saturday. Julie led the field from the 1500m lake swim, settled into the leading group during the 40k cycling leg, before establishing a led of more than three …
Monday, June 11th, 2007
Trio selected for Euro Champs
Three Team Bath triathletes have been selected to represent Great Britain at the European Duathlon Championships in Edinburgh later this month.
Aaron Harris and Mark Threlfall (pictured) will both compete in the Junior Men’s event at the Championships, while Tom Room, a final year Natural Sciences student at the University …
Thursday, June 7th, 2007
Dibens impresses at St Croix
Julie Dibens proved she remains one of the top women triathletes in the world with victory in the St Croix 70.3 women’s race in the US Virgin Islands.The race featured a 2km sea swim, followed by a 90km bike ride and a 21km run.
Julie crossed the line first in …
Friday, May 11th, 2007
Dibens lands Pacific Islands Double title
Team Bath Olympian Julie Dibens continued her terrific off-road triathlon campaign by winning the Tagaman Xterra event.
And that result, plus her second place in Saipan a week ago, meant Julie clinched the overall Pacific Islands Club Double award.
It also …
Monday, March 26th, 2007
Dibens second in Saipan
Team Bath Oympian Julie Dibens produced another fine performance in the Xterra Saipan Championship to finish runner-up in the women’s off-road triathlon.
The 32-year-old was beaten by Swiss athlete Renata Bucher – a reversal of positions at the Xterra Guam race a week ago.
The gruelling race consisted of a …
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Dibens wins gruelling off-road triathlon
University of Bath-based triathlete Julie Dibens won the Xterra Guam women’s off-road race by more than one and a half minutes.
The 32-year-old triathlete won the gruelling race – which featured a 1k swim followed by a 27k mountain bike ride and a 5k trail run – in 2:15.58….
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
Wiltshire edged out by world champ in sprint finish
University of Bath graduate Harry Wiltshire produced one of the best performances of his triathlon career to finish eighth in a world class field at the French Grand Prix.
Wiltshire, who won the World University Triathlon Championship in Switzerland last month, continued his good form in La Baule.
It …
Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Harry wins World University Triathlon Championship
University of Bath graduate Harry Wiltshire beat off tough competition to win the World University Triathlon Championship in Switzerland.
The 23–year–old produced a strong sprint finish to take the title in Lausanne by just seven seconds from Germany’s Jan Raphael at the end of the Olympic distance triathlon.
He …
Friday, September 1st, 2006
Fifth place finishes for Harry and Emma
TeamBath triathletes Harry Wiltshire and Emma Davis both produced impressive performances at the Aquathlon World Championships in Switzerland. Harry followed up his victory in the World University Triathlon Championships at the same venue on Saturday with a fifth place in the aquathlon yesterday (Wednesday), while Emma finished fifth in …
Thursday, August 31st, 2006