Category Archives: Triathlon

Sadness at death during Bala Triathlon

8th June 2015Latest News, Racing, TriathlonJenni Muston

Celebrate every athlete

We were deeply saddened to hear of the tragic event which took place yesterday at the Bala Middle Distance race. Our thoughts go to the family, friends and loved ones of the athlete who passed away – and to all of the athletes at the race, including one of our own who was close to this very, very sad incident.

Nothing can soften the tragedy of a sudden death, but we hope those involved, and the witnesses, can take some consolation in the fact that this athlete will have passed away doing something they loved to do.

To celebrate the success of a Jackpot athlete at another race this weekend may go against the grain of this post you may think. At the same time we race because we love it – we love doing what we do.

Nigel Ould has qualified for the Gran Fondo Worlds in Denmark later this year in early September. Great news Nigel – reading online about the World Champs I am trying to ascertain if you are in the younger age group race of 160k or the older age group race of 115k.

Nigel Ould - Cambridge Gran Fondo — Nigel Ould – Cambridge Gran Fondo

Cat Jameson has written a fantastic report from her outstanding performance at Challenge Salou last weekend here.

Keep safe.

Baku Calling

1st June 2015Latest News, Team, Triathlonjackpot

Jackpots Heather Sellars and Tom Bishop showing off their new kit for the first European Games which will take place in Baku later in June. And very smart they look too.

Heather will be first to hit the water in Azerbaijan on June 13th, whilst Tom will dive in to action one day later on 14th June. The duo will be joined by fellow Leeds triathletes Jess Learmonth, Gordon Benson and Phil Graves, plus Helen Jenkins.

The winner at the European Games in Baku will be offered a ‘Nation’ spot to the Olympics in Rio next year, so it is an important event for all concerned and there will be some top competition.

First Female Elite

6th January 2015Team, Triathlonjackpot

Catherine Emma Jameson has today announced that she is joining the Jackpot Racing triathlon team for 2015. She becomes the first elite female to join the team.

Catherine has been a professional triathlete for four years and has already established herself as a top performer. Her best performances of 2014 include:

Winner – Castle Triathlon series
Winner – Lough Cultra Triathlon
Winner – Chantilly Castle Triathlon (France)
Winner – Cholmondeley Castle Triathlon
Winner – Bala Triathlon
Second – 5150 Mont Tremblant
Fifth – 5150 Zurich
Sixth – 5150 Philadelphia – 6th
27^th – 5150 World Championships

“It’s a new year and lots of exciting new things lay ahead for me in 2015. After not being part of a team for the past couple of years I am really pleased to announce that I have just joined the Jackpot Racing team. Over the past year I have heard so many great things about the team so I am really excited to be a part of it. I have now moved into my fifth year in triathlon so this year I am going to step up and have a dabble in a few 70.3 races as well as trying to qualify for the 5150 World Championships where only the top 30 girls in the world qualify.”

Catherine joins fellow professionals Tom and David Bishop in Jackpot Racing.

Jackpot bring home the bling

13th October 2014Latest News, Results, TriathlonJenni Muston

The Last of the Summer Tri sprint distance race was held yesterday in Holmfirth with Jonny McLean winning the race in a time of 1:17:03, a full two and a half minutes ahead of second position! The course is renowned for its steep hills on the bike and run stages though the swim is flat. Elite athlete Mark Buckingham who is from Holmfirth like Jonny, put in an appearance for the race. It appears Holmfirth has a wealth of healthy fit people.

Then down to the Royal Parks Half Marathon where China Clarke put in a storming performance in a time of 1:24:17 however China, when searching through the results, you are down as a girl not a boy. China ran for the Bone Cancer Research Trust.

China Clarke ready to rock and roll — China ready to rock and roll

Back in Yorkshire, it was the infamous Spadgers Sportive ride. Richard Knell-Moore, Matt Wilson, Dave Morley and Jenni Muston shot around the course which was thick with fog for most of the ride. There were 1400 riders registered and still more riders who could not register on the day and were warmly told to ‘get on their bikes’ and join the Sportive 🙂

Jackpotsters Richard (in his Guccis), Jenni, Dave and Matt at Spadgers

Spread the Love

6th October 2014Latest News, Results, TriathlonJenni Muston

Sunday 5th October saw more medals added to the Jackpot Racing family silver cupboard with Andrew Whiteley taking 3rd place at the Tri-Crazy Bedford Sprint finishing just a minute behind the winner. Andrew spread the Jackpot love to his family with all of them racing at Bedford. It was a shorter than normal swim resulting in a lung buster of a race in a very strong field and Andrew running an awesome 17:07 for the 5k!

Andrew Whiteley spreading the Jackpot love

Further north in Cheshire, Oulton Park held two qualifying events for the European Duathlon Champs 2015. Kieran Savage led the field out in the sprint distance in a lightning speed run just under 5 minute miling – too fast for a photo! Whilst Kieran describes his bike as disappointing, he still managed a huge 4th overall place and age-group win and qualification!

Kieran - we hear Dave Morley has offered you his TT bike ;-) — Kieran – we hear Dave Morley has offered you his TT bike 😉

The standard distance followed the sprint where Jenni Muston came off the run in 1st position however dropped to 2nd on the bike (and 3rd in transition! Something to practice on Jen?). Jen finished 2nd overall and has qualified for the Europeans 2015…however nobody knows where these are yet…

Heading East to Goole, Ben Garrard finished with a tremendous overall position of 10th in a time of 58 minutes, cruising in 4 minutes behind the winning time. Awaiting full results…!