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With four world cup races in four weeks, June is being dubbed “The Million Dollar Month”. Over US$1million will be handed out by ITU officials and race organisers in a 30-day span.
“The sport of triathlon has never seen anything like this before,” commented ITU Executive Director, Loreen Barnett. “We are proud to be able to bring this opportunity to our athletes, who make many sacrifices to reach this level of competition.”
The start lists for the this month read like a who’s who of triathlon with multiple Olympic, world and continental champions with a few Olympians and world cup winners mixed in for good measure.
Top names include: Snowsill, Fernandes, Bennett, Dillon, Tanner, Hewitt, Sweetland, Densham, Luxford, Dittmer, Gomez, Kahlefeldt, Ospaly, Robertson, Whitfield, Kemper, Docherty, Henning and Gemmell.
This record month is due to the Des Moines BG Triathlon World Cup, the richest ever event on the elite triathlon circuit with a total purse of more than US$700,000 in cash and additional prizes. The first-place winners in the mens and womens divisions will each take home paychecks of US$200,000 plus an H3 Hummer vehicle, filtering down to US$3,000 for the 15th place man and woman.
Add on top of this, national coverage on the United States’ major broadcaster, NBC, and you have an Olympic caliber field on the start list of this ground-breaking event.
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