The ITU Triathlon World Championships 2011in Edmonton on July 10th features Paula Findlay who has been on an amazing streak. However there are many great triathletes in the 2011 World Cup and Paula will be facing her biggest challenge to date.
It seems like Paula Findlay is virtually untouchable this year as she was won an amazing 5 out of her last 6 Dextro Energy Triathlon Series races.
It all began in Monterrey in 2010 with her most recent win being in Kitzbuhel.
If there is one thing that seems to be having the biggest impact, it is Paula's ability to simply outrun the competition in the late stages of the race.
It's a testament to her over-all fitness, endurance and above all, her mental toughness.
Certainly I hope Paula is successful once again as she races in front of a home crowd. It will be perhaps the most pressure she has been under in all of her young career.
She will most certainly be challenged by some of the best triathletes on the planet and I believe her biggest challenge might just come from Kiyomi Niwata of Japan.
Kiyomi is also having an excellent season and was third in the Ishigaki World Cup in May and then went on to win two races in Asia.
Triathlon at any level is all about form. It can be the ITU or it can be the Ironman, but it all comes down to who is in the best form this season.
Well, there is no doubt that Paula is in great form, but so is Kiyomi and if Paula is upset on July 10th, I believe Kiyomi just might be the one to do it.
WOMEN ENTRIES IN THE ITU TRIATHLON WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011Paula Findlay CAN Helle Frederiksen DEN Kiyomi Niwata JPN Kathy Tremblay CAN Zurine Rodriguez ESP Ashleigh Gentle AUS Hideko Kikuchi JPN Katrien Verstuyft BELKeiko Tanaka JPN Anastasiya Polyanskaya RUSClaudia Rivas MEX Machiko Nakanishi JPN Elizabeth Bravo ECU Charlotte McShane AUS Alice Betto ITA Margit Vanek HUN Hollie Avil GBR Mateja Simic SLO Amanda Felder USA Anahi Le?n MEXCarla Moreno BRA Pamela Nascimento Oliveira BRARomina Palacios Balena ARG Flavia Fernandes BRA Flora Duffy BER Melody Ramirez MEX Chantell Widney CAN Yuko Takahashi JPN Jennifer Spieldenner USA Lauren Goldstein- Kral USA Abbie Thorrington GBR Michelle Flipo MEX Ellie Salthouse AUS Manon Letourneau CAN Eri Kawashima JPN Andrea Barraza MEX Melissa Rios PUR Lydia Waldm?ller AUT Kelly Whitley USA Yanitza Perez CUB Charlotte Morel FRA Cecilia Perez MEX Szandra Szalay HUN Daria Pletikapa CRO Militza R?os PUR Fanny Beisaron ISR Yun-Jung Jang KOR Lisa Perterer AUT Hee Ju Kim KOR
On the men's side it seems unlikely that Simon Whitfield will be on top of the podium in this years World Cup event in Edmonton. It would sure be great to see and who can ever forget Simon winning the first ever Olympic Triathlon in Sydney?
However Simon is most definitely not in form at this point in time and with this huge field of the worlds best competing in the ITU Triathlon World Championships 2011, it is going to take a huge effort for Simon to make it to the podium.
It will take some doing to beat Hunter Kemper from the U.S. and it looks like that challenge is most likely going to come from New Zealander Bevan Docherty who is also in top form this year.
MEN ENTRIES IN THE ITU TRIATHLON WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011Bevan Docherty NZL Hunter Kemper USA Crisanto Grajales MEX Marek Jaskolka POL Kyle Jones CAN Gavin Noble IRL James Seear AUS Diogo Sclebin BRA Simon Whitfield CAN Ramon Ejeda Medina ESP Brent McMahon CAN Jose Miguel Perez ESP Arturo Garza MEX Ben Collins USA Cameron Good AUS Premysl Svarc CZE Aaron Royle AUS Carlos Javier Quinchara Forero COL Drew Box AUS Fabio Carvalho BRA Jens Toft DEN Christopher Felgate ZIM Francisco Serrano MEX Juraci Moreira BRA Andrew Russell CAN Peter Croes BEL Csaba Rendes HUN Attila Fecskovics HUN Marc-Yvan De Kaenel SUI Felipe Van de Wyngard CHI Bryan Keane IRL Aur?lien Lescure FRA Todd Leckie GBR Leonardo Saucedo MEX Yohann Vincent FRA Peter Kerr AUS Gabor Faldum HUN Barrett Brandon USA Ognjen Stojanovic SRB Pierre Le Corre FRA Jason Wilson BAR Kohei Shimomura JPN Gonzalo Raul Tellechea ARG Aaron Harris GBR Joe Maloy USA Harunobu Sato JPN Mauro Cavanha Conceicao BRA igor Polyanskiy RUS Hiroki Sugimoto JPN Steven Sexton USA Andrew Yorke CAN Brice Daubord FRA Akos Vanek HUN Ji Hwan Kim KOR Balazs Pocsai HUN Luciano Farias ARG Eder Mejia MEX Michel Gonzalez CUB Aleksandr Latin EST Tamas Toth HUN Herv? Banti MON Irving Perez MEX Ron Darmon ISR Andre Paul Baillargeon Smith CAN Felipe Barraza CHI Min Ho Heo KOR Wikus Weber RSA Franz Hofer AUT Marcus Vinicius Fernandes BRA Richard Varga SVK Dylan McNeice NZL Patrice Hamelin CAN Ju Seok Kim KOR Matthew Sharp GBR Javier Cuevas DOM
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