Bex and Drew and travelling Coach Pam Fulton departed Harare on Emirates Airlines for Chicago USA via Dubai on Saturday 12th September – they arrived safely in America after a very long haul. Time difference is approximately 7 hours so please watch this space for updates !! [Show slideshow]
Bex, Drew and Pam have arrived safely in Chicago after over 30 hours of travelling. Bikes were assembled and they went out on a recce ride of the venue and course – what an incredibly exciting time for them !! They are approximately 7 hours behind Zimbabwe time so keep checking the site for updates […]
From Coach Pam: Getting down to some serious business including bike course orientation yesterday. Wow what an awesome, exciting, fast course and what an experience being able to ride with all the top elite athletes in the world (and I did not come last!) The team had some down time and did a bit of […]
Update from Coach – the new trisuits arrived and look fantastic !! Bex and Drew have completed the swim and course familiarization and attended the athletes briefing – the Chicago Police and Fire Department boats were all out on the swim course !! They all attended the Opening Ceremony last night and all ready to […]
The Vice President of Triathlon Zimbabwe, Mr Ian Duncan, represented our federation at the ITU Congress in Chicago yesterday. [Show slideshow]
Race day has arrived !! Drew will be racing at 4.30pm Chicago time (11.30pm our time) – Coach Pam says he is focused, relaxed and ready – GOOD LUCK DREW !!! This morning Drew and Rebecca met with THE BEST OF THE BEST – Javier Gomez and Jonathan Brownlee – how incredibly exciting that must […]
Official Coach’s Post-Race Report Junior men World Championships 2015-Drew Williams This event scheduled to be held on 17 September at 4:30pm, was at the last minute postponed due to pending thunder storms. All athletes, coaches and mangers were evacuated from the swim start, to the Congress Hotel across the road. There we were informed of [&hel... read more
Although Bex was due to race in the Junior Women’s event at 2.30pm Chicago time (9.30pm Zim time) World Triathlon have issued the following: In anticipation of harsh weather conditions expected for late Friday afternoon, the following the modifications have been made to the schedule on Friday, September 18 for the ITU World Triathlon Grand [&helli... read more
After the previous days race schedule uncertainties, the Junior ladies event was moved from the original designated time of 2:30pm to 3:30pm on the 18 September. If weather interrupted play, the event would be shortened or postponed to the following day. this again did not help with the athletes race preparations. With an hour to […]