Federation

Contact Information

Address
P.O. Box 170
St.George's
West Indies
Grenada

President
Clare Morrall

Secretary General
Inga Karasek

Website
http://grenadatriathlon.com/

Phone
473 415 1271

Fax
473 440 4137

Email

Latest News

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  2009 Grenada Triathlon

  Grenada Triathlon 2009 This year we are very excited to announce that the races will take place on closed roads in the town of St. George's. We have an entire day of events that will allow every one to get involved. The events include the Insurance Consultants Olympic Triathlon (1.5k swim, 40k bike, 10k run), Digicel Sprint Triathlon (750m swim, 20k bike, 5k run), Try-a-Tri (400m swim, 10k bike, 2k run), Children’s races for all ages, Volkswagen 5k fun run, Coca Cola 750m open water swim and Deco Industries 20k bike race. The children’s races as well as the Insurance Consultants Olympic Triathlon and Digicel Sprint Triathlon can be done as a relay. All events except for the children’s races have cash prizes. Registration closes at 5pm on Saturday the 2nd of May. Log on to www.grenadatriathlon.com for more information or contact Marc on 473 534-2646 or e-mail marc@modone.net . Race briefing is at True Blue Bay Resort at 5pm. {/exp:tagstripper:tagsToSave}

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  Grenada Triathlete Takes on the World!

  Between August 30th and September 2nd, the German city of Hamburg hosted the World Triathlon Championships. Grenada was represented by Clare Morrall, President of the Grenada Triathlon Association. Three race courses in central Hamburg were used over the championships, each with a swim in the Alster Lake, a bike course through the city streets and a run course partly along the lake. Racing conditions were rather different from those of the Caribbean! The water temperature was a rather chilly 16.2 degrees centigrade; air temperatures were in the low teens and some unwelcome head winds blasted competitors at times on the bike course. Aside from the weather, the racing was great. A total of 2500 Age Group athletes swam rode and ran either the Sprint or Olympic distance races. Amateur athletes from over 70 nations selected by their respective country triathlon federations raced in the Age Group category on Sunday, a day after 3500 athletes raced in the Open category. After a strong swim, bike and run, Clare finished the Olympic distance course in 2 hours and 40 minutes, placing 50th out of 83 athletes in her age group. The Grenada flag was held high over the entire championships, joining the Caribbean nations of Barbados who was represented by the talented junior athlete Jason Wilson and age grouper Derek Wilson along with Winston Crooke from Nevis. The 2007 World Championships was a superbly run mega event that attracted thousands of athletes and huge crowds of spectators who lined the lake and the streets for the Open, Age Group and Elite races. The final race of the Championships was the Elite Men’s race. Beijing Olympic places were assured to those who took the top ten places so the stakes were high. The men’s race was won by German Daniel Unger in an incredible in 1 hour 43 minutes. More information on the World Championships, including full results and video footage of the championship races is posted on the International Triathlon Union website at: www.triathlon.org Next years World Championships will hosted by the Canadian city of Vancouver in June. The Grenada Annual Triathlon, which will be held over the weekend of April 26/27th, will be great preparation for the World Champs- make a note of the dates now and visit www.grenadatriathlon.com. Click here for more articles and videos from the Hamburg BG Triathlon World Championships {/exp:tagstripper:tagsToSave}

• Grenada Sprint Triathlon April 29th 2006

  Grenada celebrated its return to the Caribbean triathlon scene by hosting it's 19th annual sprint triathlon, after missing last year due to the ravages of hurricane Ivan, the Grenadans put on a wonderful event. To show support, a six person team from the club was in attendance, veteran performers Reggie Douglas, Winston Crooke and Keith Jones, were joined by Sarah Petre-Mears, Stanley Williams and Greg Phillip. The 750 metre swim course ran parrallel to the beach in Palmiste bay, making spectating a simple affair, in fact the whole course was in plain sight of the spectators who had gathered to watch the action. After watching the amazing crop of young athletes do the shorter courses in the morning the 35 athletes lined up to face the challenge of the high quality field and the afternoon sun. Amongst them were race favourite Marc DeCaul of Grenada, just returned from competing at the commonwealth games in Melbourne, Richard Jankowski of Martinique, winner of the Nevis triathlon in March, and for the women, top contender Clare Morrall also of Grenada. Coming out of the water first was 16 yr old Jason Wilson of Barbados, followed by Marc Decaul, with Reggie exiting in 10th place, looking for a fast transition to try and make up time on the bike, Winston had his best ever 750 swim time completing the course in 19:44, followed by keith and then Sarah, also doing a personal best over the distance. The bike course was 5 laps of a 4km course within palmiste bay, which was fast and predominantly flat with only a short hill climb to the turnaround, and the bikes were moving very quickly indeed, with Richard jankowski setting the fastest time of 32:32, Reggie managed to move up a few places on the bike as did Winston and Keith, with an unfortunate collision with a jellyfish putting paid to Stanleys chances of completing the course, he had to finally quit from the pain of the sting, as he gamely tried to complete the bike leg. Sarah was on a high after her very good swim and was merrily grinding away the metres on the bike, looking very composed the whole time, all was not so well for Greg either, after a slow swim he had to push too hard in the bike to leave anything for the run, but was game to the end. The run was where the race was being fought out, Marc leading Jason after passing him on the bike, but jason hanging tough and steadily gained back some of the ground he had lost to finish only 6 seconds behind a triumphant Marc to take second place, with manuel Paula of Martinique taking the third place. Reggie was involved in a mad sprint finish which involved a lot of elbows and pushing and shoving, finishing 7th overall and 2nd in his age group, Keith was forced out of the podium in his age group by a very tough bunch of athletes from martinique, Winston finished 3rd in his 40-49 category and Sarah, a remarkable second place in her age group behind female winner Clare Morrall, a wonderful result for this novice triathlete competing only her second sprint event. Greg was a picture of rugged determination as he completed the course and celebrated his first international event outside of Nevis, he is sure to be afixture in future races. Everyone agreed that we had been to a really special event and look forward to visiting again next year, the Nevis athletes wish to thank the host nation for taking good care of us and demonstrating true Grenadian hospitality. {/exp:tagstripper:tagsToSave}