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#86 BREAKTHROUGHS OF '23: MARTA KROPKO
We continue our look back at some of the names breaking out in 2023 and with ambitions set fully on Paris in the company of Hungary’s exciting talent Marta Kropko.
Still only 20 years old, this season saw Marta cement her place in the Hungarian Mixed Relay squad after what was a tough debut in Leeds in 2022, this time helping the team to 5th place at the World Championships in Hamburg, 3rd at the European Games Krakow and now suddenly eyeing an Olympic qualification spot that would guarantee two men and two women on the Paris start lines.
The U23 Aquathlon World Champion after winning in Ibiza, Marta scored a first World Cup top 10 in Weihai in August and is now hunting a first WTCS start in 2024, all fitting around an Economics degree in which she is in her third year at Budapest University.
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Nov 24, 2023
#85 BREAKTHROUGHS OF '23: CATHIA SCHAR
With a huge Olympic year ahead it is the perfect time to look back at some of the younger names that made an impact in 2023 and suddenly have Olympic places in their sights.
We get underway with 22-year-old Cathia Schar, who anchored the Swiss Team to Mixed Relay World Championship bronze in Hamburg, took 4th place in the U23 World Championships Pontevedra and then crushed her first World Cup podium with bronze in Rome.
Currently 33rd in the Olympic Rankings, Paris 2024 is suddenly a very real prospect for both the individual and mixed relay, so we get to grips with the journey there, overcoming self-doubt and proclivity for a party to emerge from the COVID years as a new force in Swiss triathlon.
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Nov 2, 2023
#84 HUGO MILNER
OLYMPIC-SIZED AMBITION
He has only been in the sport for two years, but at 6'4" tall and with his first World Cup win already secured in Miyazaki, could Hugo Milner be the Next Big Thing in British Triathlon? He honed his run skills in Harvard, his swimming in Nottingham and his bike handling in Derby, and it looks like the fist test of a WTCS start line could be heading his way in 2024.
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Oct 24, 2023
#83 D O R I A N _ C O N I N X | 2023 World Champion
In 2013, Dorian Coninx became Junior World Champion in London, beating two rising British talents on their own patch. A decade later, the Frenchman went into the 2023 World Triathlon Championship Finals as a long-shot title prospect, fifth in the rankings, the much-fancied Alex Yee and Hayden Wilde among those ahead of him. Once again, the underdog title suited him down to the ground, but now Coninx must prepare for a home Olympics in Paris next year as the new World Champion and the name on everyone's lips. He has learned and matured enormously since the dark days of his Rio 2016 campaign, but how will the 29-year-old cope with going into Paris as a favourite?
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Oct 9, 2023
#82 B E T H _ P O T T E R | 2023 World Champion
In September, Great Britain's Beth Potter capped a phenomenal year with a World Championship-winning display in Pontevedra. With her 2024 Olympic Games place now also booked thanks to that title and victory in the Test Event, Potter now has the freedom to plan her perfect Paris build up. Tune in for a revealing 45 minutes in her company as she dissects life on and off the blue carpet, including pre-race insomnia, post-race elation and how she plotted her way past Cassandre Beaugrand to become world champ at the 2023 Championship Finals.
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Jul 27, 2023
#81 WTCS Hamburg recap: Lauren Fisher Crossfit legend
Could Vincent Luis be a CrossFit Champion? Who are the ultimate athletes - triathletes or CrossFitters? Could you row a marathon?
Hailing from San Diego, California, Lauren Fisher is a 7 x CrossFit Games athlete and former Junior national weightlifting champion in the US who tuned in to the world of CrossFit from a young age initially to help with her basketball training. The multi-dimensional fitness competitions soon took over as her sport of choice, however, and after a decade competing at the top level, she now also runs her own signature fitness programmes and retreats for those looking for a slice of the Lauren lifestyle. Lauren hit her first Olympic distance triathlon in Hamburg's open races and thinks there could be more crossover potential between the sports.
Listeners can receive a 50% discount for Lauren's Grown Strong fitness programme for women using the code _worldtriathlon_
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Jul 26, 2023
#80 WTCS Hamburg recap pt.2: Will McCloy
Will McCloy is best know to triathlon fans as the commentary voice behind the Arena Games and Super League, for whom he has been calling races for over five years. The Australian took a first dip into Age Group World Championship racing in Hamburg in mid-July, where he puked, fought walls and raced actual former elite champions. McCloy reveals the importance of testing himself, the power of preparation and the potent competition to be found among middle-aged men on an AG triathlon start line.
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Jul 26, 2023
#79 WTCS Hamburg recap pt.1 : Rasmus Henning
Rasmus Henning (DEN)
Two-time top 10 Olympic triathlete ✅ Multiple World Cup and Ironman winner ✅ One of Denmark’s most successful triathletes of all time ✅
Back in 2010 he joined an elite club of male athletes to complete a sub-8hour Ironman and posted one of the fastest ever times at Challenge Roth, a four-time Kona vet, he could most recently be seen rolling back the years and tearing up the course at the WTCS Hamburg Age Group Sprint World Championships, winning silver in the 45-49 category. He is also the CEO and performance director of Triathlon Denmark after recently working with the Danish Olympic Committee.
Denmark's triathlon titan Rasmus Henning found his competitive edge was as sharp as ever as he returned to the blue carpet in Hamburg. After picking up silver at the AG World Championships as legends like Daniel Unger and Stuart Hayes took to the opportunity to get back to competition, the Great Dane relives the Hamburg magic, the unique tussles of the $200,000 Hy-Vee race and missing out on winning a Hummer.
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Jun 22, 2023
#78 - WTCS Montreal preview with Non Stanford and Tommy Zaferes
We take a look ahead to the fourth stop on the 2023 World Triathlon Championship Series - WTCS Montreal - with former World Champion Non Stanford and Tommy Zaferes, to figure out just where the race can be won and lost - and by whom. The chase for World Championship points continues over a demanding sprint-distance course, Vasco Vilaça of Portugal and USA's Taylor Spivey wear the golden #1 and look to continue their chase for the 2023 world titles.
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Jun 16, 2023
#77 Jeanne Lehair
After switching from representing the tricolor of France to the tri-suit of Luxembourg in 2022, Jeanne Lehair has been in the form of her life, seizing the new opportunities that have come her way to post career-best Series finishes and become the Triathlon Champion of Europe. She gives us the lowdown on squaring off that difficult decision to switch ahead of Paris 2024, the battle in Madrid and her targets for the rest of what is already a season for the ages.
You can watch her race in June's French Grand Prix and WTCS Montreal over on TriathlonLive.tv.
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Jun 1, 2023
#76 Pierre et Mignon - Long Distance World Champ duo
A four-month goal achieved together - France's Marjolaine Pierre and Clement Mignon took Ibiza by storm as they won the 2023 World Triathlon Long Distance Championships in May. Taking the tape just minutes apart, it was an iconic finish to two outstanding races by the couple that have been together since racing the Junior National Championships back in 2018. That was the end of a long and difficult road for both of them, but now the ambitions are turning to Nice and Kona.
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May 23, 2023
#75 The Vasco Vilaça episode
Portugal's Vasco Vilaça heads to WTCS Cagliari as the world number one after an electrifying start to the 2023 season saw back-to-back podiums in Abu Dhabi and Yokohama. We catch up with him and World Triathlon photographer Tommy Zaferes from his base in Sardinia to find out what makes him tick on and off the blue carpet and who is the FIFA king of the JFT training crew.
_episode notes_
02'50 - FIFA wars - Vilaça vs Geens vs Bicsak
08'50 - Natalie Van Coevorden - passenger imposter
11'50 - Swim cap crying - losing the coveted no.1 cap
15'35 - WTCS Yokohama rewind - cramping capers, Hauser pounces
20'10 - Battling the waves in Cagliari - tips from a former lifesaver
31'40 - Sprint finishers - who you got, Coninx or Bergere, Wilde or Yee?
34'35 - Eagle versus Falcon
25'20 - Race no.1: passing the time on the starting line
38'00 - Pre-race nerves and the power of the nap
43'00 - Abstinence among athletes
45'30 - Fantasy Triathlon League: Tommy kiss of death obstri.com/fantas…
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Apr 4, 2023
#74 The Erika Ackerlund episode
The USA's Erika Ackerlund spoke out recently about the paralysing nerves she felt at the start of the 2022 season, and where the pressure she had unwittingly placed on herself had put her mental health. The 26-year-old reveals what helped her through it, and how she hopes to channel her nervous energy into something positive in 2023.
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Mar 22, 2023
#73 Hans Christian Tungesvik: Winter Tri Champion episode
Hans Christian Tungesvik has played his own part in Norway's triathlon explosion in recent years, an Ironman and Norseman champion who made the switch to Winter Triathlon in 2021 in triumphant fashion, winning individual and relay golds on his championship debut. With the 2023 World Championships being held in his native Skeikampen, we catch up with one of the favourites for this year's title and hear just what it takes to become an extreme tri world champion, and how Kristian Blummenfelt and Gustav Iden have reshaped Norway's triathlon landscape.
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Feb 22, 2023
#72 The Leo Bergere World Champion Episode
It was one of the most gripping climaxes to a season possible as a dramatic final 500m of the men's 2022 World Triathlon Championship Finals saw Leo Bergere eventually emerge with gold and the world title at the end of a hard-fought campaign. Ahead of his return to the desert for the 2023 season opener, we caught up with Bergere in Girona to hear how he finally got the better of Alex Yee and Hayden Wilde and what makes the French squad such aa force to be reckoned with heading in to the new year of racing.
Watch WTCS Abu Dhabi on 3 March on TriathlonLive.tv
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Feb 13, 2023
≠71 The Vincent Luis Bonus Episode
With the start of the 2023 World Triathlon Championship Series just around the corner, World Triathlon met up with Vincent Luis in the Girona hills where he lives and trains. This bonus episode is a short excerpt from the full interview with the two-time World Champion, and will be available to watch soon exclusively on TriathlonLive.tv along with all of the new season's action from the blue carpet.
Stand by for the season launch on 17 February.
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Feb 3, 2023
#70 The Gwen Jorgensen episode
In mid-December, the word was finally out - Rio 2016 Olympic Champion Gwen Jorgensen was coming back to World Triathlon racing in 2023. A seven-year break from the blue carpet, two children and some serious marathon running since she hung up her tri-suit, one of the best of all time is back and eyeing a spot on the USA Mixed Relay squad for Paris 2024. Hear how it all came about and why on the latest episode of the World Triathlon Podcast.
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Jan 27, 2023
#69 The Maya Kingma episode
Netherlands' Maya Kingma kicks off the new season of World Triathlon podcasts, the rising talent who fought through the pain barrier at the end of 2022 to help determine the outcome of WTCS Bermuda, was caught up in a bike crash in Abu Dhabi, and is looking to ease into the new year fully fit and ready to consistently hit the heights she has shown over the past two campaigns. After a little glitz at the first ever Global Triathlon Awards!
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Nov 22, 2022
#68 The 2022 Championship Finals Preview Show
Gillian Sanders and Tommy Zaferes join the podcast to give their own inside takes on a season that has had it all, and look ahead to the big one - the 2022 Championship Finals Abu Dhabi, where the headline battles between Hayden Wilde and Alex Yee, Flora Duffy and Georgia Taylor-Brown for the men's and women's world titles are set to provide the season's final chapter of unmissable action!
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Nov 16, 2022
#67 Morgan Pearson
Ahead of his first race back from an injury that has kept him off the blue carpet since Abu Dhabi 2021, we are in Chile to speak with USA's Morgan Pearson at the Vina del Mar World Cup and catch up on where the Olympic Mixed Triathlon Relay silver medallist is at mentally and physically as he builds back towards the all-important Paris 2024 campaign.
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Sep 23, 2022
#66 Coaches Special: Rodrigo Milazzo & Tibor Lehmann
For 2022 World Coach Day, we catch up with Brazil Triathlon's High Performance Manager Rodrigo Milazzo and Tibor Lehmann, coach of Hungarian hotshot Csongor Lehmann, and hear how they are determined to convert years of work into Olympic success at Paris 2024, and exactly what it might take to realise those dreams over the next two seasons on the World Triathlon blue carpet.
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Aug 25, 2022
#65 Kristian Blummenfelt & Gustav Iden
Ahead of an hotly anticipated first World Cup in their hometown of Bergen, Norway’s triathlon totems reveal the secrets of the City of Seven Mountains and just how they manage to keep pushing each others limits and buttons during training. From Iden’s mortal fear of birds to the sneakier side of Blummenfelt’s race tactics and the prospect of a complete overhaul of their Olympic formula for Paris 2024, it’s a brilliant hour in the company of the two great friends and rivals.
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Aug 22, 2022
#64 Craig Kirkwood
New Zealand's Craig Kirkwood began working with Hayden Wilde back in 2016 and has since helped develop a raw multisport talent into an Olympic medallist and world title contender. On this episode, he reveals how a tenacious Wilde first made him aware of his ability as the pair chased a $1,000 prize and how he prefers the art of coaching to the science, and looks forward to a potential world championship showdown in Abu Dhabi.
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Jul 19, 2022
#63 Sam Dickinson
Dogged by injuries at almost every crucial step of his young career, Sam Dickinson is now ready to break out of the shadows in 2022. Serving as a domestique and standby for GB’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic hopefuls, Sam has had to bide his time, but after helping land the first Mixed Relay spots of the Paris 2024 qualifiers - including a controversial penalty that nearly cost the team dearly - he is now laser-focussed on a big Commonwealth Games debut and kicking on in the new Olympic cycle.
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Jul 12, 2022
#62 Jamie Riddle (RSA)
We're back and delighted to cast an eye over some of the remarkable action from the Championship Series races over the past months, as well as a first look ahead to the Commonwealth Games, with one of the young athletes making a name for himself in Leeds and Hamburg, Jamie Riddle. The 22-year-old is a shining example of the power of positivity and seizing your opportunities when they present themselves, as we take a look at the new generation coming through and bringing the heat to start of the Paris 2024 Olympic cycle.
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May 12, 2022
#61 Chris McCormack
The former World Triathlon and Ironman Champion and Super League pioneer Chris McCormack joins us for a look ahead to the first Series race of 2022, WTCS Yokohama. We get the inside scoop on the historic Sub7-Sub8 Ironman attempts and consider just what it is that makes the likes of Blummenfelt, Duffy and Brownlee so very good, as well as why there will always be someone around the corner waiting to outdo them.
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Apr 21, 2022
#60 Kate Waugh and Max Stapley
Ahead of the London stop of the 2022 Arena Games Triathlon series, we catch up with one of the surprise packages from Munich a fortnight ago, Australia's Max Stapley, to get the inside scoop on the tactics that helped him to silver in Germany, as well as Kate Waugh (GBR), who can take some credit for his preparation having experienced the lung-burn for the first time herself a year ago, and who is also looking forward to the challenge ahead and the prospect of racing in front of a sell out crowd at the London Olympic Aquatics Centre.
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Apr 1, 2022
#59 Marten Van Riel
Before the Belgium Hammer - who scored gold at the 70.3 Dubai earlier in 2022 - heads to the opening Munich leg of the Arena Games Triathlon World Championships, Marten Van Riel explains just how and why he is ready to make the seemingly impossible leap from longer distance to intense, virtual super-sprint action, the fresh weapons his new training programme is bringing to his racing and why he just wants to spread good triathlon vibes everywhere he goes.
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Mar 25, 2022
#58 Triathlon coach Paulo Sousa
Born and raised in Lisbon, Portugal, the ever outspoken Paulo Sousa had no fewer than seven members of his training group on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic start lines last year. On episode 58, he shares his excitement over the three new members added to the roster for 2022, the experiences and philosophies that have shaped his methods and why pragmatism and honesty are the core principles to everything he practices. And hill reps. Lots and lots of hill reps.
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Mar 4, 2022
#57 Csongor Lehmann and Kira Gupta-Baltazar
Hungary's Csongor Lehmann and Canadian Kira Gupta-Baltazar join us for the third in our mini-series of ones-to-watch for the 2022 season. Csongor was born and raised in the home of Hungarian triathlon, Tiszaujvaros, a fierce competitor with Junior and U23 World titles to his name, trained by his dad and brought up on a rich diet of triathlon as soon as he could walk. Kira made her debut in the Canadian Mixed Relay team in Montreal and, having won the NCAA Women's Triathlon title for her beloved San Francisco University, is looking to hit her first World Cups in 2022.
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Feb 25, 2022
#56 Alberte Kjaer 🇩🇰 & Miguel Hidalgo 🇧🇷
Two of the hottest new talents ready to breakthrough in 2022 are Denmark’s Alberte Kjaer Pedersen and Brazil’s Miguel Hidalgo. Coming from opposite sides of the swim-bike-run equation, both are working it out on the world stage, hitting their first WTCS starts in style and planning to help their countries to Mixed Relay Olympic debuts in Paris.
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Feb 11, 2022
#55 Chase McQueen and Emma Lombardi
As we begin the countdown to the start of a new World Triathlon season, it's time to catch up with a few of the faces set to be breaking through in 2022. In the first of a series of ones-to-watch specials, the USA's Chase McQueen and French U23 World Champion Emma Lombardi give us the lowdown on the very different trajectories of their journeys in the sport so far, including high drama at WTCS Leeds and the art of French Grand Prix racing.
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Jan 25, 2022
#54 Kendall Gretsch
When the women's PTWC wheelchair category was left out of the Para Triathlon programme of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, USA's Kendall Gretsch didn't dwell on what might have been. Instead, she took up Para Nordic Skiing, going on to win gold at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Games. After finally getting her shot at triathlon glory at Tokyo 2020 and winning the title in the most dramatic fashion, she is now heading to Beijing and hoping to defend her winter titles for the first time.
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Jan 14, 2022
#53 Javier Gomez
The most decorated World Triathlon Champion of all time, Spain's Javier Gomez has left an indelible mark on the sport ever since his first world title at U23 level in 2003. He looks back through those defining career moments and, with new coach Dan Plews, plots a route to his next chapter with one eye firmly on unfinished business in Kona.
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Dec 3, 2021
#52 Ian O'Brien
Former USAT coach and the man behind Origin Performance, Ian O'Brien joins us on the latest episode, revealing how to achieve a winning mindset and why it is important to become 'comfortable in being uncomfortable' on the journey to the very top of the international sport. We go inside the tactics and hear the tales of what it takes to train the best in the world.
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Nov 12, 2021
#51 Lotte Miller
Fresh from her first international gold at the Europe Triathlon Cup Quarteira, Lotte Miller shares her unique insights to the Team Norway set up, from the intimidating early days with Kristian Blummenfelt and Gustav Iden to the cusp of an Olympic Mixed Relay slot, the emotional rollercoaster of 2021 and how the 25-year-old has already learned the hard way how to spot the danger signs of burn out.
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Oct 8, 2021
#50 Alex Yee
The boy from Brockley becomes the man in Malibu. Alex Yee's story to delivering the 2021 of his Olympic dreams has taken a long and winding road, but from the moment he took the Series tape for the first time at June's WTCS Leeds, the stage was set for more magic. From Olympic gold and silver to the World Triathlon Championship Series overall podium and wrapped up with some Super League brilliance, that is precisely what he delivered.
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Sep 24, 2021
#49 Paralympic Champion Brad Snyder
He lost his eyesight in Afghanistan 2011, was a London 2012 swimming champion exactly 12 months later and then, after two highly successful Paralympic Games in the pool, made the switch to para triathlon. Having doubted whether he should even try and qualify for the hugely competitive visually impaired start list at Tokyo, it all came together on the day, winning gold with guide Greg Billington to justify the sacrifices he made along the way and plant a seed for a potential Paralympic journey that just may reach all the way to LA 2028.
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Sep 10, 2021
#48 Paralympic Champion Susana Rodriguez
The new Paralympic Champion in the visually impaired (PTVI) category of para triathlon, the incredible Susana Rodriguez spent 2020 on the front line of Spain's fight against the pandemic, caring for patients while wrestling her burning desire to win the biggest race of them all. She explains the personal battle she fought to ready herself mentally and physically, the incredible importance of the unique blind-athlete-and-guide relationship and the 'emotional and physical bomb' that was competing at Tokyo 2020.
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Sep 3, 2021
#47 Jonny Brownlee
From bronze at London 2012 to silver at Rio 2016, Jonny Brownlee finally scored Olympic triathlon gold at Tokyo 2020 in the inaugural Mixed Relay. He reveals the tactics that went into that success, how it might reevaluate his planned Olympic retirement ahead of Paris and how it was preparing for his first Games experience without brother Alistair.
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Aug 24, 2021
#46 Jetze Plat
Netherlands' para triathlon legend Jetze Plat has dominated the PTWC class for the past five years and now heads to Tokyo to defend the Paralympic title he won when the sport debuted at Rio 2016. We caught up with him in February this year at a training camp in Namibia, where he had been invited to join the Dutch Triathlon's Olympic squad preparations for a huge 2021 for the sport. Listen as Plat reveals how he has used his disability to drive his remarkable competitive edge since the age of five.
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Aug 10, 2021
#45 Non Stanford, Matt Hauser & Laura Lindemann
Ahead of the World Triathlon Championship Series Montreal, we hear from three of the contenders for medals in the brand-new super-sprint format, ready to build on their very different Tokyo 2020 inspirations and tackle an intense weekend of racing with just two events left in the chase to become the 2021 World Champions.
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Jul 29, 2021
#44 Olympic Champion Flora Duffy
It needed the complete race to deliver Flora Duffy's Olympic destiny, typhoon-affected and coming at the end of a long, difficult road to Tokyo 2020. Hear how she handled the pressures of going for Bermuda's first ever Olympic gold and ended up receiving congratulations from Hollywood superstars.
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Jul 28, 2021
#43 Olympic Champion Kristian Blummenfelt
Norway's Kristian Blummenfelt lit up the Olympic Games on Monday with the kind of display that is the hallmark of a great champion. It was a goal he had been working towards for years having earmarked Tokyo 2020 as his shot at the big one, and he duly delivered, the closing stages of a 10km run to the tape of 29:34 one of those Blummy charges you just had to step back in awe and enjoy. He walks us through the build up, the race, and his 2021 plans for both World Triathlon and Kona.
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Jul 23, 2021
#42 Tokyo 2020 Olympic predictions with the experts
A special Tokyo 2020 Olympics edition of the podcast sees experts from across the sport weigh in with their thoughts on who has a shot at the Olympic medals. Sydney 2000 Champion Simon Whitfield, London 2012 silver medalist Lisa Norden, double World Champion and Olympian Helen Jenkins, the 1997 Triathlon and two-time Ironman World Champion Chris McCormack, voice of TriathlonLive Trevor Harris and journalists Brad Culp and Tim Heming give us the benefits of their collective wisdom... see if you agree with their (Olym)picks.
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Jun 30, 2021
#41 Alistair Brownlee
The most successful Olympic triathlete of all time, Alistair Brownlee admits why he started WTCS Leeds with an ankle injury that suggested he probably should not: the magnetic pull of the Olympic Games. He explains why he owes so much to the sport, what it is that defines greatness and why the British Mixed Relay team is in good hands at Tokyo 2020 with brother Jonny and Alex Yee.
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Jun 23, 2021
#40 Carolyn Hayes
On Olympic Day, one month out from Tokyo 2020, Ireland's Carolyn Hayes looks ahead to her Olympic debut having finally had qualification confirmed after a long and drawn-out few years. Silver in the World Triathlon Cup Lisbon and a top-10 finish in WTCS Leeds showed the hard work and training in Wicklow, Ireland is paying off. Now it's all eyes on Japan as the final preparations get underway.
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Jun 3, 2021
#39 Richard Murray
South Africa's Richard Murray was readying for a third Olympic Games appearance when his preparations were turned upside down by a condition causing irregular heartbeats. Normal life may be on pause, but he won't be giving up on hitting the Tokyo start line just yet, as he reveals how he has tried to keep upbeat despite missing out on WTCS Leeds, home of one of his greatest performances.
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May 20, 2021
#38 Jo Brown
After taking a year away from triathlon in 2020, Jo Brown returned in Yokohama and, despite breaking her nose during the warm up, came away with plenty of positives as the Tokyo 2020 build up continues. The Canadian takes us through the event in Japan, looks ahead to the Olympic Qualification Mixed Relay event in Lisbon, and back over the past year, including life in a van in the wilderness with great friend Chelsea Burns.
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May 17, 2021
#37 Jelle Geens
The return to the World Triathlon Championship Series finally arrived with WTCS Yokohama more than living up to the hype as the world's best made their return to the blue carpet in Japan. Belgium's Jelle Geens dials in from his trip back to Girona to give us the lowdown on all the comings and goings from the weekend and of course his remarkable final 2km race for the gold with Kristian Blummenfelt.
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Apr 30, 2021
#36 Mehdi Essadiq & Badr Siwane
Hailing from Rabat, Mehdi Essadiq and Badr Siwane are close friends and training partners, and both are on a mission to make history as Morocco's first ever Olympic triathlete. But with only one spot available on the Tokyo 2020 start list and just one ranking place between them, the race is on to see who will succeed.
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Apr 23, 2021
#35 Beth Potter
Beth Potter left her life as an Olympic runner and a teacher to move to Leeds, train with the Brownlees and become a world-class triathlete. Bouncing back from self doubt in Hamburg, 2020 finished well with a World Cup gold and silver. More recently, the Scot scored hit the headlines with a 5,000m World Record time of 14.41 and now has the famous five rings in her sights once more.
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Apr 9, 2021
#34 Taylor Knibb
At the start of the year, USA's Junior and U23 World Champion Taylor Knibb moved to Boulder, Colorado, to join an international training team for the first time. As the 2021 season start comes closer, she hopes that the environment will help her return to the World Triathlon Championship Series podium she hit at Edmonton 2017 and galvanise her huge ambition in triathlon.
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Apr 2, 2021
#33 Kenji Nener
After completing the switch from Team Australia to representing Japan in 2018, Kenji Nener has begun the next chapter in a career that has already seen him training with some of the best in the sport and coping with the disappointment of missing out on what could have been the race of his life. He reveals how he bounced back from that crash in Karlovy Vary and is setting his sights on Olympic qualification and the prospect of a home Games in Tokyo.
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Mar 26, 2021
#32 Leo Bergere
After two world titles with the Mixed Relay squad, France's Leo Bergere also landed World Championship bronze in 2020, his first Series podium. He tells us how he is looking forward to the battle for Olympic berths between the deeply talented French set up, why the Grand Prix circuit has powered the current national success and how learning to take risks has improved his racing.
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Mar 19, 2021
#31 Kevin McDowell
The USA's Kevin McDowell's triathlon journey has taken in some incredible highs and lows, none more so than his diagnosis with cancer shortly after a breakthrough year as a junior back in 2011. Now 10 years cancer-free, he eloquently and openly describes the impact of that time, his mental and physical struggle back to full fitness and how it all just may have delayed his peak at the right time ahead of his final push to reach the Tokyo Olympic Games.
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Mar 12, 2021
#30 Winter Triathlon special
Ahead of the World Triathlon Winter Championships in Andorra on 20-21 March, we take a closer look at the cross-country ski and mountain bike version of swim-bike-run with Italy's Sandra Mairhofer and World Triathlon's encyclopaedia of all things multisport Enrique Quesada.
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Mar 5, 2021
#29 Najla al Jeraiwi & Basmla Elsalamoney
Kuwait's Najla al Jeraiwi and Egypt's Basmla Elsalamoney join us for an International Women's Day double episode, sharing the stories of their pioneering journeys towards representing their countries on the World Triathlon stage.
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Feb 26, 2021
#28: Barbara Riveros & Diego Moya
It's a South American double header as we catch up with the legendary Barbara Riveros and breakthrough star Diego Moya, two Chilean triathletes with Tokyo Olympic ambitions of a different kind.
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Feb 19, 2021
#27: Emma Carney & Emma Hogan
Life, Death & Triathlon. In a coaching special, we talk to Emma Carney, the Australian legend who in 1994 came from nowhere to become World Champion in her first race, going on to take the sport by storm until cardiac arrest forced her off the start lists for good. Her triathlon journey had plenty still to give, though, and after a stint in the commentary box and a recent auto-biography, she is now coaching her namesake Emma Hogan to help the 20-year-old realise her Olympic dreams.
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Feb 12, 2021
#26: Jake Birtwhistle
After an outstanding 2019 saw him top the WTS podium for the first time in Leeds and then again in Hamburg, Jake Birtwhistle had to put racing on hold in 2020. Now he is plotting a course to Tokyo after being the first Australian to receive a discretionary spot, pending quota, on the men's Olympic Triathlon team.
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Feb 5, 2021
#25: Hayden Wilde
New Zealand's breakthrough talent Hayden Wilde on Olympic ambitions and why he pushes himself in every race, how he loves to prove people wrong, and what goes on the perfect pre-race pizza.
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Jan 22, 2021
#24: Age-Group Special
Three legends of Age-Group triathlon racing, with more than 50 World Championships appearances between them, tell their personal stories from across thirty years of the sport.
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Jan 15, 2021
#23: Tamas Toth
Hungary's Tamas Toth joins us for the first World Triathlon podcast of 2021, sharing his thoughts on the benefits of taking time out for a full mental and physical reboot and how he is working hard to represent the athletes on the World Triathlon Executive Board.
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Dec 2, 2020
#22: Siri Lindley
This week we are joined by the inspiring former World Triathlon Champion, USAT Hall-of-Famer, coach, author and motivational speaker, Siri Lindley. Siri reveals how she overcame OCD as a student, self-doubt as an athlete and cancer earlier this year, all with some help from the power of positive thinking.
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Nov 9, 2020
Ep.21 Lisa Tertsch
After winning 2016 Junior World Championship silver in Cozumel, Germany's Lisa Tertsch left the World Triathlon circuit and headed to Harvard to study Economics and Biology. Incredibly in her first race back in 2019, she won gold at the Antwerp World Cup with a blistering run, and has since set her sights on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
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Oct 26, 2020
Ep.20 Ryan Sissons
New Zealand's Ryan Sissons took the difficult decision to retire from triathlon following the postponement of Tokyo 2020, but after two Olympic appearances, two World Cup wins and a never less than eye-catching career, there's plenty of stories and memories for one of the most outspoken of triathletes to chew over with us before he says goodbye.
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Oct 16, 2020
Ep.19 Lauren Steadman
Three-time Para Triathlon World Champion Lauren Steadman was back to racing in style with gold in Portugal's Alhandra World Cup in October. For the British star of the small screen and the start line, it's now all sights set to Tokyo and some unfinished business to take care of as he prepares for her fourth Paralympics appearance.
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Sep 25, 2020
Ep.18 Maya Kingma
The Netherlands' Maya Kingma, who scored a first World Cup podium in Karlovy Vary in September, joins us to talk about that magical moment, the pros and cons of virtual racing and her day job creating mind-reading software.
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Sep 15, 2020
Ep.17 Vasco Vilaça
Fresh from back-to-back weekends of racing against the biggest names in the sport, Portugal's latest triathlon talent gives us the inside track on his remarkable Hamburg World Championship and Karlovy Vary World Cup silvers.
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Sep 12, 2020
Ep. 16 World Champions
Tommy Zaferes catches up with the newly crowned 2020 World Champions Georgia Taylor-Brown (GBR) and Vincent Luis (FRA) to reflect on their outstanding WTS Hamburg performances and look ahead to the Karlovy Vary World Cup.
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Sep 3, 2020
Ep. 15 Flora Duffy
It's race week in Hamburg and as the WTS blue carpet is finally rolled out for what will be a standalone World Championship on a brand-new course just north of the city centre, Bermuda's triathlon legend Flora Duffy looks ahead to the hotly anticipated return to racing.
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Aug 28, 2020
Ep. 14 Justus Nieschlag
With the news that the Hamburg Wasser World Triathlon will now also see the 2020 World Champions crowned in the individual as well as Mixed Relay events, we hear from Germany's Justus Nieschlag, fresh from his Arena Games win and ready to tackle real racing for the first time in 12 months.
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Aug 14, 2020
Ep.13 Katie Zaferes
We catch up with the 2019 World Champion as she manages to remain upbeat despite the ongoing battles with Covid-induced chaos. As an athlete for whom preparation and organisation have been big parts of her success, the pervading uncertainty has proven hugely challenging but a handful of races back on the schedule have brought some much-needed focus back into life in Maryland, USA.
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Aug 7, 2020
Ep.12 All-star Tokyo Olympic special
We are joined by Kristian Blummenfelt 🇳🇴, Miriam Casillas 🇪🇸, Flora Duffy 🇧🇲, Tyler Mislawchuk 🇨🇦, Summer Rappaport 🇺🇸and Henri Schoeman 🇿🇦 to look back over the 2019 Tokyo Test Event, take a close analysis of the course and look forward to the Olympic Games in 12 months' time.
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Jul 31, 2020
Ep.11 Nicola Spirig
London 2012 Olympic Champion and Rio 2016 silver medallist Nicola Spirig reflects on one of the most iconic finishes in the history of triathlon. What gave her the edge? Brilliant planning and the know-how learned through years at the top.
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Jul 24, 2020
Ep. 10 Arild Tveiten
"The knowledge these athletes have about their own training is probably the highest in endurance sport" - Norway head coach Arild Tveiten discusses the relationships he has built with the country's leading triathletes Kristian Blummenfelt, Casper Stornes, Lotte Miller and Gustav Iden as he looks to develop world beaters and Olympic champions from what was a standing start just ten years ago.
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Jul 16, 2020
Ep. 9 Claire Michel
For episode 9, Claire Michel joins us to discuss the joy of the pursuit of excellence, her role on the Athlete's Committee and the importance of protecting athletes and kicks off a new campaign to find fresh team names for the international Mixed Relay teams starting, of course, with the Belgian Hammers.
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Jul 10, 2020
Ep.8 Marc Austin
Following the sad news of his retirement due to a genetic heart issue, we catch up with Marc Austin to look back on the 26-year-old's career and find out what lies ahead for the 2018 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist.
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Jul 7, 2020
Ep.7 Noor Khouja
Against all the odds, triathlon coach Noor Khouja and the Aleppo triathlon community at large have continued to build the sport and hold races out of the rubble of Syria's second city. In this episode, Noor reveals some of the triumphs and tragedies of the past decade that have made him more determined than ever to help young local athletes escape their fears and achieve their dreams.
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Jun 26, 2020
Ep.6 Erin Baker
The first ever ITU World Champion, New Zealand's Erin Baker joins us to discuss her remarkable career, the mindset that drove her to greatness, and why she thinks that social media might have been the end of her career.
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Jun 19, 2020
Ep.5 Lauren Parker
A horrific training accident in 2017 may have left Australia's Lauren Parker without the use of her legs, but it did nothing to dim her burning desire to win. Thanks to her best friend and training partner Brad Fernley, within months she was on the Commonwealth Games podium, and just two years later she became the World Paratriathlon Champion in the PTWC category. In true fashion, Parker now sees the Tokyo 2020 delay as an opportunity... to seek to qualify in not just one, but three sports.
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Jun 10, 2020
Ep.4 Tyler Mislawchuk
Canada's Tyler Mislawchuk joins us to reflect on a brilliant 2019 and an unusual 2020 that started with an unlikely Duathlon European Championship, saw a fortnight quarantined in his parent's basement, and has see the Tokyo Test Event winner just rediscover the pool.
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Jun 5, 2020
Ep.3 Ognjen Stojanovic
We catch up with Serbia's ASICS World Triathlon team member as he reaches the end of two months stranded in lockdown in Mauritius
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Jun 5, 2020
Ep.2 Edda Hannesdottir
The ASICS World Triathlon Team member dials in from Reykyavik
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Jun 4, 2020
Ep.1 Georgia Taylor-Brown
A WTS Leeds look-back with Team GB's 2019 champion
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