July 2014
What’s New @TriOntario
Winners of 2014 Provincial Club Championships
– Record number of clubs (34) and athletes (244) competed for $2,000 prize purse –
The Club Championships were revamped in 2014 to include points for both Age Group placings as well as points for participation in Sprint and Olympic distance triathlon, duathlon and relays. Additionally, two new Divisions were created. Division I consisted of sanctioned clubs with 50 or more members and Division II consisted of sanctioned clubs with less than 50 members at the time of competition.
Here are the winners of the Division I and Division II Provincial Club Championships held June 21 & 22 at the Subaru Series’ Guelph Lake I race.
A record 34 clubs and 244 athletes participated in the competition this year to make it a huge success. Division I was close, however Team LPC Triathlon Club edged out rival The Toronto Triathlon Club…
Belle River – Sprint Triathlon Provincial Championship
Congratulations to Lionel Sanders and Kirstie Kniaziew for winning their second provincial Championship on July 6, 2014 at the Sprint Championship at Belle River Triathlon. This race was the only Ontario-based Sprint Triathlon qualifier for the ITU World Triathlon Series World Grand Final in Chicago 2015 and in the first of three races in the Inaugural Triple Crown Challenge ($500 cash prize). This will be both Lionel and Kirstie’s second provincial championship for 2014. Are they going for Number 3?
The Next Provincial Championship is the Bracebridge Triathlon for the Olympic Championship.
For more info on the Triple Crown check out the Triple Crown article (below) and the Official Page
International Results for Canadian Athletes
2014 Commonwealth Games
Kirsten Sweetland started off today with a great performance winning Silver for Canada. Andrew Yorke put in a solid performance but was just shy of a podium finish, finishing fourth.
ITU Pan American Cup (PATCO)
The ITU Pan American Cup was the unofficial test event for the 2015 Pan Am Games. Ontario athletes Kyle Jones and RTC athlete Dominika Jamnicky both won.
National Championships
Canadian National Championships were weld in Magog, Quebec, last weekend. On the Women’s side Amelie Kretz received Gold. The men’s side won with a clean sweep with Kyle Jones, Alexander Hinton and Taylor Forbes coming in first, second and third.
Continuing Education Coaching Courses
Pre-production on Next Online Continuing Education Coaching Courses Has Begun
– Swim, Bike & Run courses to begin filming next month –
Triathlon Ontario has begun pre-production of its next three installments of its popular, ground breaking online continuing education coaching courses. Course outlines have been finalized and filming is set to begin next month for the highly anticipated Swim, Bike and Run Technique courses. These installments will supplement the “Exercise Physiology for Triathletes”, taught by internationally renowned physiologist Dr. Greg Wells, which was launched earlier this year.
In partnership with Dr. Wells, Triathlon Ontario’s premiere series of online con-ed courses targets NCCP Community Level trained triathlon coaches that are seeking to further develop their professional skill set. The series of courses will be comprised of a number of subjects such as Exercise Physiology, Psychology, Strength and Conditioning, Nutrition, Transitions and Sport Specific Technique (Swim, Bike and Run). Each subject heading will consist of 6-10 hours of content divided into approximately 45 minute segments. Coaches will be provided with access to watch the instructional videos and will be required to complete online quizzes.
Swim Technique
The Swim Technique course will be taught by swim coach Mike Rutledge. Mike has over 30 years of experience in the area of competitive swimming both as an athlete and coach…
Course Registration
For those coaches interested in signing up for the Exercise Physiology for Triathletes con-ed course or for the next NCCP Community Level coaching course you can do so by going to our Coaches home page on the Triathlon Ontario website at http://triathlonontario.com/members/coaches-2/.
Click here for more info about Dr Wells
Stay Tuned for more courses!
Ottawa Draft Legal Race
Elite/U23, Jr Development, U15 Draft Legal Provincial Championships – August 2
Registration for the 2014 Draft Legal Provincial Championships in Ottawa on August 2 will be closing Wednesday July 30th. There will be no race day registrations.
You can register and see the course maps by going to our Provincial Championships page here. Athlete briefing and race kit pick up on site Friday, August 1 at 6pm.
Don’t miss out on one of the few chances to race draft legalin Ontario and for just $70, a fraction of typical registration fees!
This is also an important stop on the Youth Cup seriesfor the U15s (14-15), where points are worth ~25% more.
Check out what’s New for 2014:
- New swim course
- Increased prize money for the Elite/U23 wave
- Use of transition bins for all waves
Don’t forget, you need to have an active TriOnt or other PGB membership and draft card to take part.
Triple Crown Challenge
2014 Triple Crown Challenge (Update)
Provincial Sprint Triathlon Championship on July 6, the first race for the Inaugural Triathlon Ontario Triple Crown Challenge, in Belle River, Ontario. 2014 intends to be a exhilarating and unique moment for many triathletes where each male and female group participating in the Sprint and Olympic distance races, will compete for a $500 cash prize. This depends solely on how they finish in their age group at this year’s (2014) World, National and Provincial races, which make up the “Triple Crown”, and will be held on Canadian soil.
Click Here for Sprint updated standings – (Reminder: Least amount of points wins!)
For more info on the Triple Crown Click Here
2015 Pan Am Games
Volunteer with the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games Triathlon
The TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games will be the largest international multi-sport Games ever held in Canada, with a geographical footprint stretching from Welland to Oshawa to Minden Hills, Ontario.
Athletes from 41 countries across the Americas and Caribbean will be training and competing in the Pan Am Games between July 10 and 26, and the Parapan Am Games between August 7 and 15, 2015.
We are looking to identify specialized field-of-play volunteers for Triathlon, and want to know if you would like to become a Games-time volunteer.
Ontario Summer games (Update)
The relay teams have been announced for the 2014 Ontario Summer games team. The relays are a mixed event (male & female) and are a not medal event.
| Relays | |||||||
| Team Simon Whitfield | Team Kirsten Sweetland | Team Kyle Jones | Team Craig Alexander | ||||
| Bethell | Bridget | Borrens | Sara | Burgess | Tamara | Cooke | Samantha |
| Justin | Attfield | Wisner | Tyler | Westbroek | Daniel | Toneguzzi | Daniel |
| Guthrie | Hailey | Chant | Emily | Gregoire | Megan | Zaza | Yossra |
| Nixon | Addison | Allen | Spencer | Bone | Jack | Caie | Kyle |
| Team Chrissie Wellington | Team Lisa Bentley | Team Javier Gomez | Team Gwen Jorgensen | ||||
| DeLone | Ariel | Douglas | Jacqueline | Garcia | Trella | Gibb | Allison |
| Serratore | Frederick | Rudderham | Ryan | Robinson | Spencer | McCallum | Ryan |
| Tremblay | Emilie | Shearer | Lauren | Ritchie | Nicole | Rankin | Erika |
| Card | Riley | Cherry | Liam | Cooke | James | Cunningham | Jeremy |
| Team Alistair Brownlee | Team Mirinda Carfrae | Team Lionel Sanders | Team Heather Wurtele | ||||
| Howard | Samantha | Hunt | Chloe | Jones | Kaitlyn | Mayer | Katarina |
| MacKinnon | Ian | Kirkham | Aidan | Harris | Matthew | Gurrin-Smith | Nathan |
| Price | Tarrah | Panko | Lucy | Menegotto | Talijia | McAllister | Ginny |
| Davies | Oliver | Donnelly | Liam | Goble | Drew | Gagnon | Marc-Antonie |
Visit our Ontario Summer Games Page for updates and info regarding the OSG.
Recent Results
2014 Ontario Youth Cup Series’ First Stop: Guelph KOS®
Guelph Lake KOS® was the first stop in the expanded 2014 edition of the Triathlon Ontario Youth Cup Series. The start time was pushed back approximately an hour due to cooler temperatures but that didn’t cool down some blazing times put in by our competitors.
Boys 14-15
Liam Donnelly took a Series lead with 25 points from his 1 min. 28 sec. victory over second place finisher Kyle Caie. Donnelly came out of the water in 7th place, 1:28 behind leader Will Stewart who had a swim time of 5:40 over the 400m swim course. Donnelly made up ground over the technical 10km bike course posting the fastest bike split of the day averaging 35.9km/hr. He also posted the fastest 4km run time of the day averaging 3:43/km to solidify his victory.
Girls 14-15
Sara Borrens put on a dominating performance on Sunday in Guelph, winning by nearly 3 minutes over the rest of the field. Borrens and a group of five other girls came out of the water within 12 seconds of each other, but she began to put the pack behind her with a blistering bike split (5th fastest overall bike split). Coming into T2 Borrens had over a minute lead over Emilie Tremblay and extended it even more on the run leg to comfortably take the first race in this year’s Series.
Click here for full Series standings
National Junior Series
Ontario Triathletes Battle Hard in National Junior Series Opener
In the first of four National Junior Series events Provincial Team member and Quest for Gold supported athlete, Samantha Klus showed her strength and grabs Ontario’s solo podium spot finishing 3rd.
Triathlon Ontario supported athletes racked up a number of top 10 finishes, including 4th (Myles Zagar – RTC Guelph) and 5th (Oliver Blecher – C3) on the men’s side, and 3rd (Samantha Klus– Bytown Storm) and 6th place (Meagan Adams – Bytown Storm) . Early Saturday morning with water temperature at a “balmy 16 degrees” and 10 degree air temp with 20k winds. It promised to be an interesting start to the season.
Up first were the men, with the woman following 5 min behind. Over 60 Junior men and almost 30 Junior women lined up on the beach for the 750m swim, 20k bike and 5k run.
On the men’s side two Ontario athletes, Myles Zagar and Oliver Blecher exited the water first with a 15-20 second lead over a group of 6-7 other men…
Greg Kealey is based out of Ottawa and is Triathlon Ontario’s Provincial Development Coach and Ontario’s Canada Summer Games coach for Triathlon. He is also a member of Bytown Storm’s Development Team www.bytowntriathlon.com.
Triathlon World Cup
Dominika Jamnicky Solid in 11th at Triathlon World Cup in Mexico
—John Rasmussen leads Canadian men in 17th—
HUATULCO, Mex.—Dominika Jamnicky got her World Cup season off to a solid start with an 11h-place finish on Sunday in Huatulco, Mexico.
Jamnicky, who gained valuable experience after racing the challenging Huatulco course one year ago, was solid from start-to-finish in the 1.5-kilometre swim, 40-kilometre bike and 10-kilometre run course. Jamnicky clocked a time two hours, 21 minutes, 11 seconds (2:21:11) under the intense heat.
“This course absolutely crushed me last year so I came back this year with much better preparation,” said the 21-year-old Jamnicky. “I knew what to expect in terms of the course and hot weather. The goal was to stay cool as long as possible, position myself well and stay hydrated. I did my best to commit to the plan from start to finish and execute a smart race…
Complete ITU World Cup Results (1.5km swim, 40km bike, 10km run): http://www.triathlon.org/results/event/2014_huatulco_itu_triathlon_world_cup
Upcoming Races
Sharbot Lake
This weekend (July 27th) the Improved and Expanded Ontario Youth Cup Race Series moves to Sharbot Lake. This will be the first Draft Legal race for the 14-15 year olds however it will still be Draft Illegal for the 12-13 year olds. The Sharbot Lake KOS® is a classic Kids of Steel event that has a rich history of friendly competition and sportsmanship and not surprisingly the beginning of our very own Simon Whitfield’s Triathlon career. It was organized by triathlon legend Rudy Hollywood and his wife Joan in the 1970’s and was revived in 2013 by the Bytown Storm Triathlon Club
Are You Registered? On line registration is closed however, you can register in person on Saturday July 26th from 3-6pm at the race site.
Stop by the Ontario Youth Cup page to check out Leaderboard updates and for on the named Champion Who Dares to Touch The Cup.
For a full list of race venues for the 12-13 & 14-15 age groups and Series rules please click here!
Provincial Olympic Championship – Bracebridge
Bracebridge will play host to the 2014 Provincial Olympic Triathlon Championship on August 10, 2014. Bracebridge is located in relaxing cottage country and will be the only Ontario based qualifier for the Olympic distance in Chicago for 2015 . Chicago will be host to the ITU World Triathlon Series Grand
What you need to qualify:
1) Be a Triathlon Ontario member in the year of qualification (2014) and race year (2015)
2) Sign up and race either the Belle River Sprint Triathlon or Multisport Canada’s Bracebridge Olympic Triathlon, depending on your race length of choice
3) Finish in the top of your age group in your gender and be sure to notify Triathlon Canada by the designated cut off time
4) If you don’t finish in the top of your age group, you still have a great shot of being part of the team that races in Chicago. All unclaimed spots are put in a pool and given out on a first come first serve basis on a date announced by Triathlon Canada.
2014 Membership
Don’t forget to sign up for the 2014 Season. Sign Up now or you’ll miss all of the Great Benefits.
Club Wear
Triathlon Ontario’s New Club Wear Program
Through its partnership with Ian Feldman of Genumark, the program is designed to give clubs – big and small – the opportunity to source an extensive catalogue of club wear options at competitive prices from a trusted source.
Triathlon Ontario understands the value to a club when its members proudly display their club colours either at races, training sessions, or even in casual wear. There is no doubt that clubs who have members wearing their club colours helps develop a sense of team spirit, increases visibility, thereby attracting more members and offers additional sponsorship and revenue generation opportunities.
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