Huntington Beach, CA – July 21, 2010 – TYR athlete Fran Crippen captured the bronze medal in the 5k at today’s 2010 FINA Open Water World Championship in Quebec, Canada. In addition to medaling in the 5k swim, Crippen placed 4th in this year’s 10k and was honored as the top American Male finisher in both 2010 events. Crippen’s achievement marks back-to-back bronze, following his 2009 FINA Open Water World Championship medal in the 10k distance. Earlier this season, Crippen amazed the open water swimming world by battling back from a 200m deficit to secure a hard-earned victory at the 2010 FINA 10k World Cup.

Crippen wore TYR’s Tracer Light Tight while speeding to the podium in today’s championship event. The proven performance of Tracer technology’s zoned muscle compresssion and hydrophobic coating has accompanied TYR athletes in multiple National, NCAA and World Championships.

Video of new interview with Chrissie Wellington!

Huntington Beach, CA – July 20, 2010 – Her characteristic smile fixed firmly in place, reigning three-time Ironman Triathlon World Champion Chrissie Wellington shattered her own prior world record at Sunday’s Challenge Roth. Her time of 8:19:13 gapped her nearest competitor by more than 32 minutes and secured a 7^th place overall finish among the women and men combined. Wellington’s time splits in each discipline – 50:28 in the swim, 4:36:33 on the bike and 2:48:54 on the marathon run – each showed improvement over her 2009 Challenge Roth race, where she initially broke the world record in a time of 8:31:59. Sunday’s 12:46 improvement marks an unprecedented breakthrough in women’s Ironman distance racing.

Wellington is widely known for her landmark achievements. A relative newcomer to the sport, she raced her first triathlon in 2004. Hooked on the experience from the outset, it wasn’t long before Wellington rose in the ranks from unknown to World Champion, claiming her first coveted Ironman Hawaii World Championship title in 2007. Since her performance at the 2007 race, said to be “the biggest upset in Ironman Hawaii history”, Wellington remains undefeated in the Ironman distance.

In Sunday’s Roth race, Wellington displayed TYR pride from start to finish. She was easily recognizable during the swim, clad in a vividly lettered black and red Hurricane wetsuit. Her vibrant red custom race kit, based on TYR’s 2011 collection designs, gave fans a sneak preview of the innovative new products that will launch at the upcoming Outdoor Retailer trade show and become available to the public beginning in Spring 2011.

Following Challenge Roth, Wellington has her sights set on besting another of her 2009 record-breaking accomplishments – setting a new fastest time at the sport’s pinnacle event, the 2010 Ironman Hawaii World Championship in October. For 17 years the women’s course record held fast at 8:55:28, set by Paula Newby-Fraser in 1992, until Wellington turned in a time of 8:54:02 on her way to a third consecutive World Championship title.

In other race news:

Back on U.S. soil, TYR’s Mirinda Carfrae set a new women’s course record at the notoriously hot and hilly Ironman 70.3 Vineman. Warm water conditions dictated a non-wetsuit swim; thus Carfrae chose to race in her Sayonara swimskin. In signature Carfrae style, the 2007 Ironman 70.3 World Champion came off the bike behind a handful of her rivals, only to rapidly erase the time deficit with her unparalleled running form. Her arrival in the finish chute, more than six minutes ahead of the second place female, clocked in at 4:15:51. Like Wellington, Carfrae now turns her focus to October’s Ironman World Championship, where she finished second in her 2009 Ironman debut.

Across the country at the Nautica NYC Triathlon, TYR-sponsored twins Rebeccah and Laurel Wassner applied a one-two punch to the women’s field, with Rebeccah successfully defending her 2009 title at this acclaimed Olympic distance event.

Video of new interview with Chrissie Wellington!

TYR triathletes Andy Potts and Magali Tisseyre celebrated wins on Sunday, June 27th. Potts’ finish at Ironman Coeur d’Alene marked the first full Ironman-distance win for the 70.3 World Champion. Tisseyre’s performance at Ironman 70.3 Buffalo Springs was her second 70.3 win of the 2010 season.

Coeur d’Alene started off for TYR’s John Flanagan and Potts with a 1-2 exit out of the water. Both racing in the TYR Hurricane Category 5 wetsuit, Flanagan split 45:58 and Potts followed close behind in 46:28. The next competitor was another six minutes back. Potts made up the deficit quickly on the bike and held on to his lead headed into T2. With an impressive 2:42:48 marathon split, he crossed the finish line in 8:24:40.

Tisseyre relied on the same back-end speed she used to win Mooseman 70.3 on June 6th to finish first in 4:23:21. Fifth out of the water in TYR’s Sayonara swimskin and second off the bike, her 1:27:38 half marathon split positioned her at the front to hit the finish line first with a one minute, 36-second margin of victory.

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Huntington Beach, Calif. – June 15, 2010 – TYR triathlete and World Ironman champion Chrissie Wellington has been bestowed with an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday 2010 Honours List. Chrissie has been awarded the prestigious title for her outstanding achievements in the field of Triathlon.

The 33-year-old from Suffolk, U.K. is 8-for-8 in Ironman races and currently holds the Iron distance world record.

“I am so thrilled to have been awarded an MBE,” said Chrissie. “It really is an incredible honor, and I am so proud to represent the sport of triathlon in the U.K. and around the world. Being awarded the MBE has given me an added boost as I train for my next ironman race, Challenge Roth in Germany in July where I hope to lower the world record that I set there last year”

Chrissie recently extended her sponsorship with TYR to represent the company’s triathlon and swim collections for the rest of her career and into retirement. She will also collaborate with the TYR design team to create limited edition race gear, a signature wetsuit, and lifestyle apparel products. The partnership will focus on generating awareness and support around charities Chrissie already supports.

Huntington Beach, Calif. – June 13, 2010 -TYR triathlete and 2009 Ironman 70.3 World Champion Julie Dibens added another win to her 2010 season with a first place finish at the 2010 Ironman 70.3 Boise race in Boise, Idaho on Saturday, June 12th.

Dibens raced in a TYR Hurricane Category 5 wetsuit during the swim leg of the race, coming out of the water with an 80 second advantage headed into T1. The British athlete used her strength on the bike leg (2:24:17) to lengthen her lead another six minutes headed to half marathon run, and cruised to the finish with an overall time of4:25:14. Beating the next professional female by over four minutes, Dibens also placed 15th overall among the professional men.

With the win, Dibens will now set sight on another victory when she toes the starting line of the Lifetime Fitness Triathlon in Minneapolis on July 10th. This season she has already won Rev 3 Knoxville, Wildflower Triathlon, and Abu Dhabi International Triathlon wearing TYR.

Picture courtesy of Eric Wynn.