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(Logan, UT – December 14, 2018) Altra’s athletes dominated the Brazos Bend 100 trail race event with Kyle Pietari winning the 100-miler, Ian Sharman winning the 50-miler and Jeff Ball winning the marathon. Despite...
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TAMPA, Fla. (Dec. 14, 2018) – IRONMAN, a Wanda Sports Holdings Company, is pleased to announce the promotion of four employees to Senior Vice President roles at IRONMAN effective January 1, 2019 – Kim...
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CHALLENGEFAMILY is always looking for ways to improve their races and is therefore very proud to announce their new partnership with the active and sports focused tour operator ‘Sport No Limit Travel’ (SNLT). This...
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TUCSON, AZ – Cycligent, Inc. (owner of CVR World Cup), has released a breakthrough eSports game that combines gaming, fitness, and eSports. It’s called CVRcade. The free-to-play game provides an all-inclusive, virtual cycling and...
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EL PASO, TX – Mighty Mujer Triathlon announces its expansion to Miami with an all-female race to take place on May 11 at CB Smith Park. Miami is the group’s 3rd market expansion following...
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ARLINGTON, Virginia – In December 2018, Rob Wolfe of Washington, DC became the 300th person to successfully complete the Road Runners Club of America’s Race Director Certification course. “My interest in organizing and directing...
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Minneapolis, Dec. 13, 2018—An overwhelming majority of non-triathletes point to fear and intimidation as the main reason for trying the sport of triathlon. But Life Time, the premier healthy lifestyle brand, is looking to...
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TAMPA, Fla. / DALLAS, Texas (December 13, 2018) – IRONMAN, a Wanda Sports Holdings company, announced today a multi-year partnership that expands the relationship with endurance sport retailer, PLAYTRI, as the Official Triathlon Store...
- Naples, FL – December 13, 2018 – Pan-Florida Challenge for Hungry Kids Ride Ambassadors are community influencers leading the fight to wipe out childhood hunger in our community. The inaugural class of PFC ride...
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We are excited and honored to announce that ZOOT SPORTS EUROPE, which has been inspiring the swimming and triathlon scene with its premium products for years, will once again be the official swim course...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. – The national calendar for the 2019 Pro Road Tour (PRT) will feature 18 events across 16 states, it was announced today by USA Cycling. Spanning March to September, the PRT...
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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – Race SLO is proud to announce a new running product sponsor for the 2019 SLO Marathon, Half Marathon & Relays, and 2019 SLO Ultra trail races. Brooks Running is...
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EUGENE, OR—December 13, 2018—As worldwide delegations are gathered in Katowice, Poland for the annual United Nations (UN) climate change gathering, known this year as COP24, the UN Climate Change programme announced the Sport for...
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(Boulder, Colo., December 13, 2018) — TrainingPeaks, the complete web and mobile endurance training solution for athletes and coaches, has announced a partnership with Cycling South Africa, the governing body of the sport in...
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Boise, ID – December 13, 2018 – Team MPI (Multisport Performance Institute) is pleased to announce the expansion of their coaching staff to include Gregg Edelstein of Boston, Massachusetts, Maria Netherland of Littleton, Colorado,...
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AUSTIN, TX (December 13, 2018) – Triathlon Business International (TBI) today announced the topics for the Race Directors (RD) educational track, the second of three curricula tracks, for the 9th Annual TBI Conference, January...
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TAMPA, Fla. (December 12, 2018) – The Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Series® today announced the release of the 2019 Tour Schedule, covering 27 destinations all over the world. All events feature scenic routes lined...
- (Williston, VT) December 12, 2018 – Mammut, the leading Swiss-born premium outdoors brand, is proud to announce its appointment as an Official Partner of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. Mammut brings 156 years of outdoors and...
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December 12, 2018 – VIRGINIA BEACH – The Yuengling Shamrock Marathon, known for its fast and flat course, scenic views, and enthusiastic finish line, has always been a runner’s top choice to qualify for...
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The hotly contested CHALLENGEFAMILY World Bonus competition concluded with Sunday’s CHALLENGEDAYTONA race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. In the final analysis, Sebastian Kienle (GER) and Pablo Dapena González (ESP) shared the...
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The 2019 XTERRA Asia-Pacific Championship off-road triathlon festival weekend is set for March 30-31, 2019 at Kenting National Park on the southern tip of Taiwan in Pingtung County. Last year’s inaugural event in Kenting...
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For the seventh consecutive year, the award-winning Escape the Cape Triathlon Presented by Inspira Health Network, has sold out- in 36 hours! Produced by DelMoSports in beautiful Cape May County, New Jersey, Escape the...
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Baltimore, MD. December 12, 2018. Big Run Media, a leader in endurance event marketing and brand strategy, announced today that Robbe Reddinger will join its team in the role of Digital Marketing Manager. As...
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SINGAPORE – Running USA CEO Rich Harshbarger presented the results of the first ever Global Runner Study here, produced this fall in partnership with Mass Participation Asia (MPA). The annual MPA event gathers an international...
- STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (December 11, 2018) – SBT GRVL, Colorado’s first large-scale gravel event, sold out for its inaugural year within seven days of registration opening. The cycling community has been buzzing about the...
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(DENVER, CO—DECEMBER 11, 2018)— The 2019 Colorado Classic will become the only women’s stand-alone stage race in the Western Hemisphere on the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) calendar and USA Cycling’s Pro Road Tour, organizers...
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Please welcome the twenty third American Trail Running Association (ATRA) Trail Ambassador presented by CamelBak, and the eleventh in 2018. Scott Magee, age 43, is a trail runner, trail race director, trail steward and...
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December 11, 2018 – Phoenix, AZ: Mud Run Guide (mudrunguide.com) kicked off their 5th Annual Best of OCR awards, this year naming the award “The Muddies” after an online vote as part of the...
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Boston, MA – December 11, 2018 – Sun Multisport Events today announced registration is now open for the 2019 RACE-MANIA Summit & Expo taking place on Sunday, March 24, 2019 at the Boston University...
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Two German market leaders start cooperating: The leading manufacturer of timing systems and the renowned provider of timing and event services will work together in the future. Starting in 2019, mika:timing will use race|result...
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NEW YORK CITY, December 11, 2018 – On May 16-19, 2019, NYC Bike Expo returns for its 9th annual edition. The road cycling show will attract more than 10,000 visitors who are avid road cyclists,...
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- Garmin sets eyes on medical wearables with its latest partnership wareable.com - Garmin has announced it's partnering with Actigraph, maker of medical-grade monitors, to combine its wearable know-how with Actigraph's health expertise. Actigraph has a platform called CentrePoint that transmits health data from its...
- Apple now has dozens of doctors on staff, showing it’s serious about health tech cnbc.com - The hires could help Apple win over doctors — potentially its harshest critics — as it seeks to develop and integrate health technologies into the Apple Watch, iPad and iPhone. Many haven't...
- Usain Bolt signs up as Xoom brand ambassador sportspromedia.com - Jamaican sprinting icon Usain Bolt has signed a deal to become a brand ambassador for Xoom, the international money transfer service acquired by PayPal in 2015.
- Sky fall? Title sponsor to depart after 2019 velonews.com - Founding corporate backers Sky and minority stakeholder 21st Century Fox both confirmed in an unexpected announcement Wednesday they would end their support of the peloton’s richest team at the conclusion of 2019.
- Investment firm buys Clean Bottle bicycleretailer.com - Split Peak LLC, a private investment firm, has acquired Clean Designs, LLC, the parent company of Clean Bottle. Clean Bottle was launched in 2010 with a guerrilla marketing campaign at that summer's...
- Floyd Landis’ cycling team announces first signings, new team name and bike sponsor cyclingmagazine.ca - The new team sponsored by Floyd Landis has a new name. The UCI Continental team registered in Canada will be called “Floyd’s Pro Cycling,” to be directed by Gord Fraser. The team...
- SiS completes PhD Nutrition acquisition endurancebusiness.com - Originally announced in mid-November 2018, Science in Sport (SiS) has announced that it has successfully completed the acquisition of PhD Nutrition. SiS plans to accelerate PhD’s growth strategy, with the acquisition expected...
- Rapha parent records operating loss in 2017 statement bicycleretailer.com - Carpegna LTD, parent company of Rapha Racing, has filed an audited financial statement showing an operating loss of nearly 20 million pounds ($25 million) last year. For the period, the company recorded...
- Interbike’s Demise: For Cycling? Terrible. Triathlon? Used to it. slowtwitch.com - The Interbike Trade Show announced it’s taking a one-year hiatus. For cycling nonprofits, Interbike’s demise is a disaster. For triathlon it’s a minor alarm. For everyone else, we’ll see.
- All 20,000 entries for next year’s Dublin Marathon sell out 10 months in advance the42.ie - In another sure sign of the explosive growth in marathon running as a mass participation sport, the 2019 Dublin Marathon has remarkably sold out 10-and-a-half months in advance. Recording unprecedented demand since...
- Why Meb Keflezighi Acquired The Carlsbad 5000 running.competitor.com - Meb Keflezighi can now add “race owner” to his list of remarkable accomplishments. This week, Keflezighi teamed up with San Diego-based Groundwork Endurance to purchase The Carlsbad 5000 race from Ironman. As...
- Bankruptcy judge approves ‘store closing’ sales at all Performance locations, sets ASE auction for January bicycleretailer.com - A bankruptcy judge has ruled that Advanced Sports Enterprises can hold store closing sales at 102 Performance Bicycle locations. The court also pushed back the auction of ASE's assets to mid-January. The...
- A Diverse Tri Club Whose Diversity Surprised Even its Founder slowtwitch.com - Marcus Fitts saw that there were very few people like himself engaged in the sport they love. So he decided to bring more people of color into triathlon and endurance sports -...
- Amer Sports: Consortium Launches Cash Tender Offer for Amer Sports barrons.com - The EUR40-a-share bid has come from a group of investors that includes Chinese sports brand Anta Sports Products Ltd., an investment vehicle managed by Asian private-equity firm FountainVest Partner, Chinese conglomerate Tencent...
- Finland’s Amer Sports close to signing $5.2 billion takeover deal by Anta-led consortium: source reuters.com - Finland’s Amer Sports is close to signing a $4.6 billion euro ($5.2 billion) deal to be taken over by a consortium led by China’s Anta Sports. The consortium has offered 40 euros...
- Armstrong: Uber investment saved him; Weisel hasn’t been honest velonews.com - Lance Armstrong revealed that an unplanned investment in ride sharing company Uber saved his family from financial ruin. Armstrong also accused former team investor Thom Weisel of being dishonest in his deposition...
- VeloNews Awards 2018: Katie Hall, North American cyclist of the year velonews.com - No single professional road cyclist dominated his or her scene quite like Katie Hall did in U.S. stage racing in 2018. Hall won all of the country’s major stage races: Joe Martin...
- Emerald cancels 2019 Interbike show bicycleretailer.com - Emerald Expositions has canceled the 2019 edition of the Interbike trade show, saying the event might return in a more modest format in 2020. Emerald also has laid off several Interbike employees,...
- Lululemon Athletica Shares Dip Despite Q3 Beat sgbonline.com - Shares of Lululemon Athletica Inc.’s weak outlook for the fourth quarter took a toll on the company’s stock, which had closed the day down $2.18, or 1.6 percent. Net revenue was $747.7...
- This College Makes Every Student Run a Half Marathon runnersworld.com - Once a year, all of Highlands College runs a half marathon together. And not just because they feel like it, but as part of the curriculum. Fitness is a non-negotiable part of...
- USA Swimming and Streamline Brands sign multi-year agreement endurancebusiness.com - USA Swimming, the national governing body for swimming in the US, and Streamline Brands, a leading franchisor of swim school concepts, have announced a multi-year partnership. The partnership with Streamline Brands allows...
- Challenge Returns to the U.S.—Will It Work This Time? triathlete.com - This weekend, Challenge makes its return to the U.S. with a “middle distance” race in Daytona, Florida, plus sprint tri, an aquathlon, duathlon, 10K, and 5K runs. This marks the first time...
- Marquee Brands acquires Dakine snewsnet.com - Marquee Brands LLC announced that it has acquired Dakine and all its related intellectual property. The company also owns Body Glove, as well as four luxury fashion brands—which together generate more than...
- Is Obstacle Course Racing Dead? running.competitor.com - Spartan Race sent ripples through the endurance community this week when it announced its latest venture: Spartan Trail, a 12-race series on trail systems around the US. The announcement left many wondering...
- Team Wiggins unveils new co-title sponsor for 2019 cyclingweekly.com - Team Wiggins has confirmed a new co-title sponsor for the 2019 season. The continental team, founded by Sir Bradley Wiggins, will be heading into the coming year with a new name, supported...
- Outdoor Retailer shortens its shows to three days for 2019 bicycleretailer.com - Outdoor Retailer said that all three of its shows in 2019 will be three days long. OR's Summer Market in June and Winter Market in November will be shortened from the original...
- Vitamin D linked to cardiorespiratory fitness, study shows runningmagazine.ca - A new study shows a strong connection between vitamin D supplementation and cardiorespiratory fitness. Also known as the “sunshine” vitamin, vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium and phosphorus to build bones,...
- Performance Bicycle To Liquidate All Doors sgbonline.com - Performance Bicycle, in an amended bankruptcy, filing said Gordon Brothers, which was initially to liquidate 40 Performance Bicycle stores, has been retained to liquidate the chain’s remaining 62 stores. The company, under...
- Jo Beckendorff to step down as Eurobike and Taipei Show Daily publisher bicycleretailer.com - Germany-based bicycle trade and industry journalist Jo Beckendorff is retiring from frontline duty at KB Media Ltd., publisher of the Eurobike and Taipei Show Dailies, at the end of this year. ...
- Nike Earns Ad Age’s Marketer of the Year sgbonline.com - Nike earned Ad Age’s 2018 Marketer of the Year for its Just Do It campaign starring Colin Kaepernick and how it sparked conversations. Among the attention the ad got: Spike Lee praised...
- Longtime commentator, ex-pro Sherwen dies at 62 velonews.com - Renowned as the voice of cycling, ex-professional and NBC Sports analyst Paul Sherwen died Sunday. He was 62. The cycling community was reeling Sunday at news of Sherwen’s death.
- Strava’s Year in Sport Numbers Are In. How Do Your Rides Compare? bicycling.com - Strava’s annual report is out, and the numbers show cyclists spent the year crushing their goals—and consuming copious amounts of coffee. The new Strava report shows 36 million athletes from 195 countries...
- ITU approves changes in competition rules for 2019 endurancebusiness.com - The International Triathlon Union (ITU) Executive Board approved significant changes in the competition rules for the 2019 season. The changes, which include penalties, appeals, water temperature limits, water quality, eligibilities, changes of...
- QBP promotes Todd Cravens to VP of business development bicycleretailer.com - Quality Bicycle Products announced Friday that it has promoted Todd Cravens to vice president of business development. Cravens will be responsible for identifying and developing strategic business opportunities with new and existing...
- Performance Running Footwear Sales Rebound with Strength in Run Specialty Channel sgbonline.com - Contrary to negative reports in the market about the end of performance footwear, SSI Data this week reported that Performance Running Footwear sales were flat in the overall SSI Data Measured Market,...
- What Strava Tells Us About the State of Running in 2018 outsideonline.com - This week, Strava released its annual “Year in Sport” report, which offers insights on data collected from over 36 million users in 195 countries. Strava’s annual report gives info on what days...
