University of Bath graduate Aaron Harris has been named by British Triathlon as part of its squad to compete at the Dextro Energy ITU World Championships Series Grand Final in Australia next month. The 21-year-old Sports Performance graduate races in the under-23 category at the Gold Coast. He finished 42nd in the senior men’s race at Hyde Park in the London round of the World Championships last weekend.
University of Bath-based triathlete Julie Dibens successfully defended her XTERRA World Championships title in Hawaii yesterday (Sunday). The 33-year-old won the gruelling off-road race in Maui – a race that features a 1.5km rough water sea swim, a 32km mountain bike ride and a 12km trail run. Dibens dominated the race, leading from the start and crossing the finishing line in 3:03.57 – a minute ahead of Canada’s Danelle Kabush in second place. It means...
Team Bath Olympian Julie Dibens was crowned Xterra off-road triathlon World Champion in Hawaii yesterday (Sunday). The 32-year-old won the gruelling women’s World Championship race in 3 hours one minute and 24 second. She beat Canada’s three times Xterra world champion Melanie McQuaid into second place by more than eight minutes. “I think I pretty much had the perfect race, it was awesome!” said a delighted Dibens. “I had a good swim, and knew I...
Team Bath’s Aaron Harris finished a creditable 18th place finish in today’s (Friday) junior men’s race at the World Triathlon Championships in Hamburg. The 19-year-old University of Bath Sports Performance student completed the race in 55 minutes and 36 seconds, one minute and 53 seconds behind race winner Aurelien Raphael from France. It was Aaron’s World Championships debut and came just a year after he had to take three months out of the sport with...
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 three go into the competition of the back of some strong results. Mark Threlfall won an impressive silver medal in junior men’s race at the European...
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 minutes going into the 10k run. She finished in one hour 59 minutes 12 seconds, beating fellow Brit Andrew Whitcombe into second place by almost a...
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 will both compete in the Junior Men’s event at the Championships, while Tom Room, a final year Natural Sciences student at the University of Bath, is selected in the GB Men’s under-23 team. The race, on Saturday 16th June, will feature a 10k run, 40k bike ride and then...
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 four hours 29 minutes and 11 seconds – beating the 2006 world short & long distance duathlon champion Catriona Morrison into second and 2006 world...
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 means she has two wins and a second place to her name from her last three Xterra triathlons. Saturday’s Tagaman Xterra triathlon started just before dawn with a sea swim. Once against Julie showed...
