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Locals limber up for Triathlone
01.07.10
EIGHT athletes from the
North West Triathlon Club will make the trip to
Athlone this weekend to compete at the European
Triathlon Championships. The event will be the
largest triathlon ever held in Ireland and one of
the biggest triathlon events on the continent this
year with over 4,000 participants expected.
The races taking place over the weekend include
partriathlon, try-a-tri, relay events, age group
sprint and olympic distance triathlons and junior
and senior elite men and women's triathlon.
Derry's Paul McConnellogue, Jarlath Fearon, Frankie
Dunlop and Joe Doherty together with Aoife Logan
from Buncrana will all compete in the age group
sprint distance race going off early on Saturday
morning. Carndonagh man Patrick McLaughlin and
Dublin-based Derry man Mickey McBride will go off on
Sunday morning in the age group olympic distance
race. These races will put the best age group
triathles from across Ireland and the rest of Europe
against each other as they battle it out for a
podium finish and their chance to break into
triathlon's pro circuit. |
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Aileen Morrison will
compete on Saturday afternoon in the elite women's
race. Morrison will race athletes such as Helen
Jenkins of Great Britain, 2008 world champion and
Olympic silver medalist and 2007 World Champion
Vanessa Fernades of Portugal. The elite men's race
will take place on Sunday with the current world
champion, Britain's Alistair Brownlee, expected to
dominate. However, the threat from the Russians and
the Germans and former world and European champion,
Javier Gomez of Spain, it looks set to be close
encounter for the men.
TV coverage of the entire event will be shown on RTE
on Sunday, July 4 at 8.30pm and race results will be
available from
www.triathlone.com . |
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