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WTCS Yokohama bubble and protocols a success as World Triathlon racing resumes

18/05/2021 The 2021 World Triathlon Championship Series and Para Series Yokohama were the first events of their kind to be delivered under the ‘bubble’ restrictions this year,...

Quick Reflects: Jumpei Furuya

10/12/2019 Japan’s Jumpei Furuya won gold at the 2018 Asian Games in Palambang in both individual and mixed relay events and has had 10 wins and made it onto 24 podiums over his...

JADA Play True 2020

21/08/2019 The Japan Anti-Doping Agency (JADA) and the organizing committee of the 2019 Tokyo World Triathlon Olympic Qualification Event, in cooperation with the International...

Tokyo, 2020 - ETU Officials have been selected

10/04/2019 ITU announced on Tuesday the list of successful candidates who will be going to Tokyo for the Games of the XXXII Olympiad and for the 16th Summer Paralympic Games. This...

Japan’s Keiichi Sato joins select group to compete in both Summer and Winter Paralympics

30/01/2018 Hailing from the Japanese city of Nagoya, Keiichi Sato has been part of ITU paratriathlon events since his first race in Yokohama back in 2014, collecting an impressive...

Elite athlete Yokohama WTS press conference

14/05/2015 Yokohama hosts an ITU World Series race for the 6th time with round five of the 2015 World Triathlon Series this Saturday May 16 and the elite athletes gathered today at the...

Yokohama Paratriathlon Press Conference

14/05/2015 Yokohama led the way with one of the first press conferences to feature the elite paratriathlon athletes hosted in front of a large and eager media contingent today, with...

Jorgensen and Stanford back in action in Yokohama

12/05/2015 Yokohama this weekend marks the fifth race and halfway stage in the 2015 ITU World Triathlon Series, in a season that has so far provided great contrast between the men and...

Top men vie for Yokohama title

12/05/2015 If the women’s WTS season has been dominated by a certain American, the men’s racing has been anything but a one-person show, with the four WTS events this season...

Tokyo Aquathlon 2013

01/09/2013 The Japan Triathlon Union organized an Aquathlon in Tokyo bay on 31 August. Fuji Television, one of the major television network company in Japan, collaborated on this...

ITU World Paratriathlon Yokohama

12/05/2013 24 competitors lined up in the ITU World Paratriathlon Yokohama this morning in breezy but fine conditions, the rain of yesterday’s elite racing gone making for a more...

JTU and Yokohama receive event award

04/12/2012 The Japan Triathlon Union (JTU) and City of Yokohama recently obtained a certificate of “ISO20121” for its excellent organization and event sustainability management for...

Triathlon returns to Japan’s Sendai Bay

04/07/2012 Triathlon has successfully returned to one of the most affected areas of the earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan, with the NTT Triathlon Japan Cup/Miyagi International...

Successful ITU Level 2 Competitive Coaching course in Chiba, Japan

28/11/2011 A new generation of coaches in Asia have moved on to the next stage of development, with 22 coaching candidates from five different countries taking part in the five-day ITU...

Ide and Hosoda crowned 2011 Japanese national champions in Tokyo

21/10/2011 Juri Ide and Yuichi Hosoda are the new Japanese champions after the 17th Japanese national triathlon titles in Tokyo Bay’s Odaiba last Sunday. In the women’s race, Ide - who...

ITU President Marisol Casado visits earthquake devastated area in Japan

15/09/2011 Marisol Casado, President of the International Triathlon Union and member of the IOC, yesterday visited Shichigahama, Miyagi in the Tohoku area, a region decimated by the...

Youth Olympic Champion’s uniform added to the Olympic Museum

23/11/2010 Triathlon’s presence at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland was bolstered after Yuka Sato’s historic race-worn suit was added to the collections.  Japan’s Sato joined...

Sakimoto, Yamamoto Claim First Titles at Japan National Triathlon Championships

21/10/2010 The 16th Japan National Triathlon Championships were held Sunday in Tokyo Bay’s Odaiba, the famed triathlon venue in Japan’s triathlon scene, gathering thousand of crowds...

Japan’s Ueda takes Mexico win at Huatulco ITU Triathlon World Cup

08/11/2009 Ai Ueda took her first ITU Triathlon World Cup win of the year in Huatulco, Mexico, as the Japanese double Asian champion stretched away in the late stages of the race to...

Tomoko Wada Accompanies Delegates to IOC

01/10/2009 Tomoko Wada, Chair of the ITU Women’s Committee, accompanied a delegation from Yokohama on a visit to Lausanne recently to meet with IOC President Dr. Jacques Rogges. The...