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Twenty-three of the world’s
best male triathletes, including
the Brownlees, Javier Gomez and
Mario Mola, are to race for US$1.5
million in the all-new Super League
Triathlon series. Launched with
a 'stake-in-the-ground' event on
Hamilton Island, Australia, the series
will officially continue in October
2017 through to March 2018.
Co-founded by two-time Ironman
world champion Chris McCormack,
the new series sees the traditional
swim, bike and run triathlon turned
on its head. In total, there will be
five unique race formats, each
comprising a 300m swim, 6km bike
and 2km run. In each event, athletes
will compete for prize money,
championship series points and the
prestigious 'series leader' jersey and
the individual 'swim, bike and run
leader' jerseys.
“Our race formats are a game
changer and we’re going to find out
who is truly the greatest multisport
athlete on the planet," said
McCormack. "We’ve seen it so often
over the years with the Brownlees
and Gomez dominating in short
course and in long course we see a
relatively similar story unfold race
after race.”
The series will officially run from
October 2017 until March 2018 in
the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East
regions, with the inaugural Super
League Triathlon event having been
held on Hamilton Island, on the
Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
AUSTRALIA
INAUGURAL SUPER LEAGUE
TRIATHLON EVENT HELD
ON HAMILTON ISLAND
WORLD SPORT NEWS
The International Netball
Federation (INF) announced that
Netball Fiji has won the rights to
host the second staging of the
Netball World Youth Cup 2021.
The tournament will be held at
the Vodafone Arena in Suva, Fiji,
which was constructed to host
the Pacific Games and is widely
renowned for hosting netball events.
The 2017 Netball World Youth Cup
will be held in Gaborone, Botswana
this July with twenty countries
competing from all of the INF’s five
regions, following qualifying rounds.
Previously known as the World
Youth Netball Championships, the
event has been held every four years
since 1988.
The last Championships was held
in 2013 in Glasgow, Scotland, and
was won by New Zealand.
FIJI
FIJI TO HOST
NETBALL WORLD
YOUTH CUP 2021