Challenge (triathlon)

Challenge Roth swim course in the Main-Danube Canal

Challenge is a worldwide triathlon competition series over the long and half distance under license from Challenge Family GmbH based in Almere, Netherlands . The series includes races at 31 locations.

history

The competitions of the Challenge series are held over the long, medium and / or Olympic distance.

	swim	To go biking	To run
Challenge Full	3.86 km	180 km	42.2 km
Challenge Half	1.9 km	90 km	21.1 km
Challenge Olympic	1.5 km	40 km	10 km

The individual disciplines are completed immediately one after the other, whereby three people can also register as a relay for the competitions. When cycling, there is no slipstream clearance, i. H. a minimum distance of 10 meters to the athlete in front must be maintained and continuous driving side by side is not permitted.

This series of competitions has been organized by Team Challenge GmbH since 2002 . It was founded in Nuremberg by Herbert Walchshöfer , who has been the press spokesman at Ironman Europe since 1988 , and was later managed by his children Felix and Kathrin and his widow Alice .

Challenge Roth since 2002

The first competition in the series was the Challenge Roth in 2002 , which had previously been held for 14 years as the world's largest long-distance triathlon as a qualifying race for Ironman Hawaii under the name Ironman Europe . From 2003 to 2015, the Challenge Roth was the venue for the German long-distance triathlon championship every year, with the exception of 2011 and 2012 .

2003 was named Worlds Best first time a Challenge Series held: On June 7, 2003 organized Team Challenge in Hilpoltstein the Challenge Hilpoltstein as triathlon over the middle distance, the organizers of the previous nine years over the sprint distance aligned City Triathlon Erding focused on 22 June In 2003, a triathlon over the Olympic distance under the name Challenge Erding for the first time. On July 6th, the winner of the series was honored at Challenge Roth. In 2003, the series was initially to be geared towards Masters and then expanded to include professional triathletes from 2004. In the absence of agreement on the costs, there was no continuation for the Hilpoltstein Challenge , Erding was again advertised as an Erding city triathlon from 2004 - still over the Olympic distance .

Celia Kuch at the finish line of the Challenge Henley-on-Thames , 2011

In 2007, the Wanaka Challenge followed on New Zealand's South Island as the second long-distance event in the series. The following year, the Challenge Niederbronn-les-Bains resumed a half-distance competition. In 2009 the Challenge Kraichgau , which had previously taken place as the Kraichgau Triathlon Festival , as well as the two competitions of the Challenge Barcelona-Maresme (over the long and half distance) were added. In the years that followed, the number of competitions with a focus on Europe continued to grow, eight races were held in 2010 and twelve challenges took place in 2011.

ETU European Championships long and medium distance since 2012

In 2012 the number of events fell to eleven. To this end, the Challenge Family managed to agree with the European Triathlon Union that since then the European championships will take place over both the long and the middle distance at changing events as part of the Challenge series.

In the following year, the number of events grew to 17, with the Challenge Laguna Phuket and the Challenge Taiwan as well as the Challenge Penticton being held for the first time in Asia and North America . In addition, in October 2012 - immediately before the Ironman Hawaii at a press conference in Kailua-Kona - it was announced that Chris McCormack , two-time winner of Ironman Hawaii and five starts in Roth from 2004 to 2007, would be the serial winner for the next ten years would act as a brand ambassador for the Challenge Family.

26 competitions 2014

In 2014, a total of 26 competitions were held under license from the Challenge Family, eight of which were long-distance. On September 4, 2014, a partnership between the Challenge Family and the North American triathlon series Rev3 was announced. The previous Rev3 competitions have been held under the Challenge label since 2015 , which increased the number of events in North America by eight to twelve competitions. In addition, other new competitions in Europe ( Challenge Denmark , Challenge Heilbronn , Challenge Menorca , Challenge Poznań , Challenge Salou Costa Darouda ), South America (Challenge Maceió) and Asia ( Challenge Camsur , Challenge Dubai ) have been added to the racing calendar.

The Challenge Bahrain, which was held (once) in December 2014, was previously the race with the highest prize money within the series: Here, the top ten winners received a total of USD 500,000 in prize money, and the winners each received USD 100,000 (as of November 2014).

37 competitions 2015

A total of 37 competitions were planned for 2015, eight of them over the long distance. Nine of these took place in the United States, four in Australia and three in Spain.

As part of a “Challenge Triple Crown Series” in 2015 at the three half-distance races in Dubai (February), Oman (August) and Bahrain (December), exceptionally high prizes were announced: The winners of the women and men should each be 65,000 US $, the second place winners each US $ 35,000, the third place winners each US $ 20,000 and a total of prize money up to tenth place has been announced. An additional US $ 1 million was offered for victory in all three races. After the second race planned for the beginning of August in the Sultanate of Oman was canceled for political reasons in May, the final race in Bahrain was brought forward to November and announced as a night race. In October, the race in Bahrain was also canceled on the grounds that, in the second attempt, a safe bike course could not have been guaranteed due to the lack of important permits for a closure.

The competition in Poznan , from 2013 on over the middle distance and in 2015 for the first time with the license of the Challenge series under the name Challenge Poznań, was held for the first time over the long distance in 2016 and hosted the ETU European Championship over the long distance.

In July 2015, Challenge Family announced that in future only members of the newly founded professional triathletes' Professional Triathlon Union (PTO) would be included in the professional categories of their races .

The Walchshöfer family concentrated on Challenge Roth , withdrew from Challenge Family GmbH and Zbigniew (Zibi) Szlufcik has been the sole managing director since 2016.

Challenge World Bonus

A new world ranking was introduced at the beginning of the 2016 season: all results for the current year are converted into a points ranking and at the end of the season a bonus of 165,000 US dollars is paid out to the top five professional athletes. The winners will each receive US $ 30,000, rank two will be rewarded with US $ 20,000 and rank three will receive US $ 15,000. The fourth-place finisher will receive $ 12,000 and the fifth-place finisher will receive an additional $ 5,000.

In 2018, Sebastian Kienle and Pablo Dapena González shared the title with equal points and, as in the previous year, the women’s victory went to Yvonne van Vlerken .

World ranking, men
year First rank Second place Third rank Fourth rank Fifth rank 2018 Sebastian Kienle Pablo Dapena González - Jaroslav Kovačič Pieter Heemeryck Cameron Litter 2017 Joe Skipper Lukas Kramer - Pieter Heemeryck Thomas Steger Jan Raphael 2016 Chris Fischer Jan Raphael Giulio Molinari Dirk Wijnalda Per Bittner

World Ranking, women
year First rank Second place Third rank Fourth rank Fifth rank 2018 Yvonne van Vlerken -2- Laura Siddall Lisa Roberts Katrien Verstuyft Margie Santimaria 2017 Yvonne van Vlerken Laura Siddall Sofie Goos Heather Wurtele Lucy Charles 2016 Mirjam Weerd Yvonne van Vlerken Erika Csomor Anne Jensen Julia Vernier

In the “European Bonus Ranking”, the Challenge Family has been awarding an additional bonus for the best in the annual ranking since 2016: a total of € 140,000 will be awarded to the first five women and men in the European racing series. The winners will each receive € 25,000, second place will be rewarded with € 17,000 and third place will receive € 13,000. The fourth place gets € 10,000 and the fifth place gets an additional € 5,000.

Relationship to the WTC and its Ironman brand

The Challenge Roth as the origin of the Challenge series had become the fourth qualification race outside the USA for Ironman Hawaii in 1988 under the name Ironman Europe and quickly developed into the largest long-distance triathlon worldwide with a six-digit number of spectators on site, up to 4,000 registrations for 2,700 starting places as well as high media presence. After the WTC , owner of the rights to the Ironman brand and the Ironman Hawaii since 1990 , demanded higher license fees, a reduction in the starting places in Roth and changes to the competition mode, the organizer in Roth refused to extend the license agreement with the WTC in 2001 and set up the Since then the competition has been called Challenge Roth.

The Ironman Germany in Frankfurt - from 2002 the new license partner of the WTC in Germany - quickly developed into the second major long-distance triathlon in Germany and thus a tough competition between the organizers. For example, the Frankfurt competitor caused an uproar in the run-up to the second event in 2003 when it claimed the traditional Roth date on the second Sunday in July. At the same time, Frankfurt recruited top starters such as Thomas Hellriegel , Markus Forster and Stefan Holzner after they had previously been presented as participants at press conferences in Roth. In 2008 Frankfurt attracted Chris McCormack , who had previously started five times in a row in Roth, with an entry fee of € 100,000 in addition to the prize money. In 2010, the WTC installed a second German Ironman competition in Regensburg only around 100 kilometers from Roth - but this was discontinued after the third event and ran as Challenge Regensburg since 2016 and 2017 .

In 2012, the WTC bought USM Events , as a license partner of the Challenge Family, organizer of the Challenge Cairns in Australia, a few months before the competition, which at that time was almost fully booked, despite existing contracts with the Challenge Family, and turned it into the Ironman Cairns .

In return, the organizer of Ironman Canada in Penticton, the most traditional Ironman qualifier outside the USA (New Zealand and Japan started two years earlier, but have since changed location), announced its license agreement with the WTC in 2012 and became the Challenge Penticton . In October, at the birthplace of the Ironman brand, of all places, the Challenge Family announced a few days before the start of the Ironman Hawaii that Chris McCormack would become a brand ambassador for the Challenge Family as a two-time Hawaii winner for the next ten years. In return, the WTC installed a new Ironman event in Whistler practically on Penticton's front door - under the name that Penticton had previously made known twenty-five years ago. In June 2013 the WTC then bought YWC Sports ApS , previously a license partner of the Challenge Family as the organizer of the Challenge Aarhus and Challenge Copenhagen competitions , in order to continue these races under its label.

The preliminary climax was reached in October 2013: the WTC not only bought Sports Promotion UG as the previous organizer of Challenge Kraichgau , but also appointed Björn Steinmetz, previously the most important partner of Team Challenge in the development of its series, as the new European managing director of WTC a. The Challenge Family, however, insisted on the fulfillment of the contract - in 2014, the Challenge Kraichgau was the first race in the Challenge series organized by the WTC. In May 2014 the WTC also announced that it had bought Tritlon Spain SL - previously a license partner of the Challenge Family as the organizer of the Half-Challenge Barcelona in spring and the Challenge Barcelona-Maresme in autumn. At the end of 2014, the WTC bought Optimum Sports Events , which had previously been the organizer of Challenge Vichy in France.

After the license agreements between the acquired organizers and the Challenge Family expressly excluded a sale to the WTC, Challenge filed a lawsuit against its former contractual partners in the summer of 2015.

Venues

Current

Melbourne Shepparton Wanaka Penticton St. Andrews Aruba Cerrado Florianópolis Itaipu San Gil Querétaro Camsur Philippines Taiwan Kanchanaburi Nusajaya Vietnam Dubai Geraardsbergen Billund Fredericia Roth Turku Galway Iceland Rimini Roma Sardinia Venice Almere Tonsberg Walchsee Poznań Lisboa Samorin Fuerteventura Madrid Peguera Mallorca Salou Mogan Geraardsbergen Billund-Herning Fredericia regensburg Roth Turku Galway Iceland Rimini Roma 753 Sardinia Venice Almere-Amsterdam Tonsberg Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl Poznań Lisboa Samorin Madrid Peguera Mallorca Salou Costa Daurada

Challenge Olympic (1.5 km swim, 40 km bike, 10 km run)	Challenge Half + Challenge Olympic
Challenge Half (1.9 km swim, 90 km bike, 21 km run)	Challenge Half + Challenge Full
Challenge Full (3.8 km swim, 180 km bike, 42.2 km run)	Challenge Olympic + Challenge Full

	competition	Venue	country	next appointment	For the first time	O 1	H 2	F 3
1	Challenge Almere-Amsterdam	Almere	Netherlands	2020	2013
2	Challenge Anhui	Anhui	People's Republic of China	Sep 20 2020	2019
3	Challenge Bled-Slovenia	Bled	Slovenia	17th May 2020	2020
4th	Challenge Cancun	Cancun	Mexico	Apr 26, 2020	2019
5	Challenge Cape Town	Cape Town	South Africa	2020	2019
6th	Challenge Davos	Davos	Switzerland	2020	2017
7th	Challenge Daytona	Daytona Beach , FL	United States	2020	2018
8th	Challenge Geraardsbergen	Geraardsbergen	Belgium	0June 7, 2020	2017
9	Challenge Gunsan-Saemangeum	Gunsan	South Korea	June 2020	2019
10	Challenge Herning	Billund - Herning , Jutland	Denmark	June 13, 2020	2015
11	Challenge Iskandar Puteri	Nusajaya	Malaysia	2020	2016
12	Challenge Lisboa	Lisbon	Portugal	May 2020	2017
13	Challenge Madrid	Madrid	Spain	2020	2017
14th	Challenge Melbourne	Melbourne , VIC	Australia	Apr. 2020	2014
15th	Challenge Mogán-Gran Canaria	Gran Canaria , Canaries	Spain	Apr 25, 2020	2016
16	Challenge Peguera-Mallorca	Peguera , Balearic Islands	Spain	Oct 17, 2020	2014
17th	Challenge Riccione	Riccione	Italy	2020	2019
18th	Challenge Roth	Roth	Germany	05th July 2020	2002
19th	Challenge Salou Costa Daurada	Salou , Catalonia	Spain	29 Mar 2020	2015
20th	Challenge San Gil Querétaro	San Juan del Río	Mexico	July 2020	2015
21st	Challenge Salvador	Salvador	Brazil	25 Sep 2020	2018
22nd	Challenge St. Pölten	St. Polten	Austria	May 30, 2021	2020
23	Challenge Taiwan	Taitung	Taiwan	Apr 26, 2020	2013
24	Challenge Vietnam	Nha Trang	Vietnam	July 2020	2019
25th	Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl	Walchsee , Tyrol	Austria	2020	2010
26th	Challenge Wanaka	Wanaka	New Zealand	2021	2007
27	The Championship / Challenge Samorin	Šamorín	Slovakia	16 Aug 2020	2016

¹ Challenge Olympic (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling, 10 km running)

² Challenge Half (1.9 km swim, 90 km bike, 21 km run)

³ Challenge Full (3.8 km swim, 180 km bike, 42.2 km run)

Former

competition	Venue	country	First time	For the last time	distance	comment
Challenge Aarhus	Aarhus	Denmark	2011	2013	Half	The organizer YWC Sports ApS as a license partner of the Challenge Family was bought by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), and the event was converted to Ironman 70.3 Aarhus in 2013 .
Challenge Amazonia	Manaus	Brazil	2016	2017
Challenge Atlantic City	Atlantic City , NJ	United States	2014	2015	Half	Will be continued in 2016 as Ironman Atlantic City 70.3 .
Challenge Batemans Bay	Batemans Bay , NSW	Australia	2014	2016
Challenge Barcelona-Maresme	Calella	Spain	2009	2013	Long	The organizer Tritlon Spain SL as a license partner of the Challenge Family was bought by the WTC and the event was transformed into Ironman Barcelona .
Challenge Barcelona-Maresme	Calella	Spain	2009	2013	Half	The organizer Tritlon Spain SL as a license partner of the Challenge Family was bought up by the WTC and the event was converted to Ironman 70.3 Barcelona .
Challenge Cairns	Cairns	Australia	2011	2011	Long	The organizer USM Events as a license partner of the Challenge Family was bought up by the WTC and the event was converted into Ironman Cairns in 2012 .
Challenge Camsur	Naga City , Camarines Sur	Philippines	2015	2015
Challenge Capetown	Cape Town	South Africa	2011	2011	Long	Canceled for security reasons.
Challenge Copenhagen	Copenhagen	Denmark	2010	2012	Long	The organizer YWC Sports ApS as a license partner of the Challenge Family was bought by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), and the event was converted to Ironman Copenhagen in 2013 .
Challenge Denmark	Herning	Denmark	2016	2017
Challenge Florida	Venice , FL	United States	2015	2016
Challenge Fuerteventura	Fuerteventura	Spain	2011	2017
Challenge Galway	Galway	Ireland	2016	2017
Challenge Gold Coast	Gold Coast , QLD	Australia	2014	2015	Half
Challenge Heilbronn	Heilbronn	Germany	2015	2019	Half	also Olympic and sprint distance
Challenge Henley-on-Thames	Henley-on-Thames	Great Britain	2011	2013	Long	The event moved and was run as Challenge Weymouth in 2014 and 2015 . Then the license agreement expired and the race will be held as Ironman Weymouth from 2016 .
Challenge Iceland	Kjós	Iceland	2016	2017
Challenge Jeju	Jeju	South Korea	2016	2017
Challenge Kraichgau	Kraichgau	Germany	2009	2014	Half	The organizer Sports Promotion UG as a license partner of the Challenge Family was bought by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), and the 2015 event was converted to Ironman 70.3 Kraichgau .
Challenge Laguna Phuket	Phuket	Thailand	2013	2015	Half	Was continued in Phuket in 2016 as Ironman 70.3 Thailand .
Challenge Maceió	Maceió	Brazil	2015	2016
Challenge New Albany	New Albany , OH	United States	2014	2014	Half	no repetition
Challenge Niederbronn-les-Bains	Niederbronn-les-Bains	France	2008	2010	Half	Was replaced by the Challenge Vichy in 2011 . In 2014, the organizer Optimum Sports Events was bought up by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) as a license partner of the Challenge Family , and the event was converted into Ironman Vichy in 2015 .
Challenge Penticton	Penticton , BC	Canada	2013	2017
Challenge Philippines	Morong , Bataan	Philippines	2014	2016
Challenge Puerto Varas	Puerto Varas	Chile	2016	2016
Challenge Rancho Cordova	Rancho Cordova , CA	United States	2014	2014	Half	no repetition
Challenge Regensburg	regensburg	Germany	2016	2017	Long	No extension for 2018
Challenge St. Andrews	St. Andrews , NB	Canada	2014	2017
Challenge Tønsberg	Tonsberg	Norway	2016	2017
Challenge Vichy	Vichy	France	2011	2014	Long
Challenge Vietnam	Nha Trang	Vietnam	2016	2016	Half	One-time event in 2016
Challenge Vitoria	Vitoria	Spain	2013	2013	Long	From 2014 onwards it was no longer part of the Challenge series, but as an independent event.

Results

Challenge world series 2021

date	Event	distance	Winner women	Winner men
Feb 20, 2021	Challenge Wanaka	Half distance
May 30, 2021	Challenge St. Pölten	Half distance
04th July 2021	Challenge Vansbro	Half distance

ETU European Championship

Challenge world championship

Challenge World Series 2020

Many of the events originally planned for 2020 had to be canceled or postponed as the coronavirus spread around the world (e.g. Challenge St. Pölten).

As part of the Challenge Samorin (The Championship) at the end of May 2020, the first "Collins Cup" in triathlon announced by the Professional Triathletes Organization (PTO) was to be held. The athletes will receive $ 2 million in prize money, which will be divided between the best 18 male and 18 female athletes.

In 2020 the race, which has so far been held thirteen times as Ironman 70.3 Austria in Austria, is to be held for the first time as part of the international Challenge racing series as "Challenge St. Pölten". The Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl won the bid to host the ETU European Championships on the middle distance in 2020. The originally planned Challenge Prague had in February 2020 to be canceled.

The Challenge St. Pölten, Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl and Challenge Davos will join forces in 2020 in what is known as the “Challenge the Alps”.

date	Event	distance	Winner women	Winner men
Feb 15, 2020	Challenge Wanaka	Half distance	Radka Kahlefeldt	Braden Currie
June 25, 2020	Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl	Half distance	(called off)	(called off)
05th July 2020	Challenge San Gil	Half distance	(called off)	(called off)
0Aug 2, 2020	Challenge Turku	Half distance	(called off)	(called off)
16 Aug 2020	Challenge Slovakia	Half distance	(called off)	(called off)
29 Aug 2020	Challenge Davos	Half distance	(canceled)	(canceled)
Sep 12 2020	Challenge Almere Amsterdam	Long distance	(called off)	(called off)
Sep 12 2020	Challenge Lisboa	Half distance
13 Sep 2020	Challenge Vietnam	Half distance

ETU European Championship

Challenge world championship

Challenge World Series 2019

The Belgian Pieter Heemeryck won the 2019 season standings with five wins and a second place and the Australian Radka Kahlefeldt won the women's annual standings .

date	Event	distance	Winner women	Winner men
16 Feb 2019	Challenge Wanaka	Half distance	Hannah Wells	Braden Currie
0April 7, 2019	Challenge Salou	Half distance	Judith Corachán	Pieter Heemeryck
Apr. 14, 2019	Challenge Melbourne	Half distance	Amelia Watkinson	Mike Phillips
Apr 21, 2019	Challenge Cerrado	Half distance
27 Apr 2019	Challenge Taiwan	Long distance	Lisa Roberts	Romain Guillaume
27 Apr 2019	Challenge Mogán - Gran Canaria	Half distance	Emma Pallant	Pieter Heemeryck -2-
April 28, 2019	Challenge Cancun	Half distance	Ellie Salthouse	Andy Potts
05th May 2019	Challenge Riccione	Half distance	Elisabetta Curridori	Mattia Ceccarelli
May 18, 2019	Challenge Lisboa	Half distance	Elisabetta Curridori -2-	Ruedi Wild
19th May 2019	Challenge Heilbronn	Half distance	Daniela Bleymehl	Sebastian Kienle
02nd June 2019	"The Championship" Challenge World Championship ( Šamorín )	Half distance	Lucy Charles	Sebastian Kienle
June 15, 2019	Challenge Geraardsbergen	Half distance	Daniela Bleymehl -2-	Pieter Heemeryck -3-
June 30, 2019	Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl	Half distance	Radka Kahlefeldt	Maurice Clavel
07th July 2019	Challenge Roth	Long distance	Lucy Charles-Barclay -2-	Andreas Dreitz
07th July 2019	Challenge San Gil	Half distance	Maddy Pesch	Justin Metzler
14th July 2019	Challenge Vietnam	Half distance	Laura Dennis	Steven McKenna
Sep 14 2019	Challenge Davos	Half distance	Radka Kahlefeldt -2-	Pieter Heemeryck -4-
Sep 14 2019	Challenge Almere-Amsterdam	Long distance	Yvonne van Vlerken	Matt Trautman
22 Sep 2019	Challenge Madrid	Long distance	Lisa Roberts -2-	Victor Del Corral Morales
Oct. 20, 2019	Challenge Anhui	Long distance	Meredith Hill	Levi Maxwell
19th Oct 2019	Challenge Peguera Mallorca	Half distance	Radka Kahlefeldt -3-	Pieter Heemeryck -5-
Oct. 27, 2019	Challenge Salvador	Half distance
Nov 10, 2019	Challenge Cape Town	Half distance
Nov 24, 2019	Challenge Iskandar Puteri	Half distance
Dec 15, 2019	Challenge Daytona	Half distance	Paula Findlay	Lionel Sanders

ETU European Championship

Challenge world championship

World Challenge Series 2018

In 2018, the European Triathlon Union (ETU) long-distance championship was scheduled to take place in Regensburg - this was canceled by the ETU in November 2017. The hosting of the EM on the long distance was taken over by the Challenge Madrid on September 23rd. For 2018, Michael Brown, the organizational head of Challenge Penticton , announced a change of the organizer in September 2017 and the 2018 race was held as a Super League Triathlon .

date	Event	distance	Winner women	Winner men
17 Feb 2018	Challenge Wanaka	Long distance	Misa Klaskova	Richard McClew
17 Feb 2018	Challenge Wanaka	Half distance	Annabel Luxford	Javier Gomez
April 15, 2018	Challenge Roma	Half distance	Sarah Lewis	Adam Bowden
Apr 21, 2018	Challenge Mogán Gran Canaria	Half distance	Yvonne van Vlerken	Pablo Dapena González
Apr 22, 2018	Challenge Melbourne	Half distance	Annabel Luxford	Mike Phillips
Apr 22, 2018	Challenge Cerrado	Half distance	Carolina de Lima Furiela	Reinaldo Colucci
April 28, 2018	Challenge Taiwan	Long distance	Julia Grant	Dylan McNeice
29 Apr 2018	Challenge Taiwan	Half distance		Jan Frodeno
0May 6, 2018	Challenge Riccione	Half distance	Yvonne van Vlerken	Giulio Molinari
19th May 2018	Challenge Lisboa	Half distance	Corinne Abraham	Pablo Dapena González
May 27, 2018	Challenge Salou	Half distance	Judith Corachán	Cameron Litter
0June 1, 2018	Challenge Nakhon Nayok	Half distance
03rd June 2018	"The Championship" Challenge World Championship ( Šamorín )	Half distance	Lucy Charles	Lionel Sanders
03rd June 2018	Challenge Venice	Long distance	Lisa Roberts	Jaroslav Kovacic
0June 9, 2018	Challenge Herning	Half distance	Pernille Thalund	Andreas Dreitz
June 10, 2018	Challenge Geraardsbergen	Half distance	Heather Wurtele	Pieter Heemeryck
17th June 2018	Challenge Heilbronn	Half distance	Daniela Sämmler	Sebastian Kienle
01st July 2018	Challenge Roth	Long distance	Daniela Sämmler	Sebastian Kienle
0July 8, 2018	Challenge San Gil	Half distance	Cecilia Perez	Tim Don
28th July 2018	Ford Challenge Prague	Half distance	Katrien Verstuyft	Javier Gomez
12 Aug 2018	Challenge Turku	Half distance	Sarah Lewis	Sebastian Kienle
0Sep 2 2018	Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl	Half distance	Eva Wutti	Sebastian Kienle
08 Sep 2018	Challenge Almere-Amsterdam	Long distance	Yvonne van Vlerken	Jaroslav Kovačič
08 Sep 2018	Challenge Almere-Amsterdam	Half distance		Philipp Herber
16 Sep 2018	Challenge Davos	Half distance
23 Sep 2018	Challenge Madrid	Long distance	Laura Siddall	Timothy Van Houtem
Oct 20, 2018	Challenge Peguera-Mallorca	Half distance	Lucy Gossage	Pablo Dapena González
Oct 21, 2018	Challenge Kanchanaburi	Half distance	Yvonne van Vlerken
Oct 21, 2018	Challenge Salvador	Half distance
Oct. 2018	Challenge Aruba	Half distance
Oct 28, 2018	Challenge Forte Village Sardinia (a)	Half distance	Svenja Thoes	Pieter Heemeryck
Nov 11, 2018	Challenge Shepparton	Half distance	Annabel Luxford	Levi Maxwell
0Dec 2, 2018	Challenge Florianópolis	Half distance
0Dec 8, 2018	Challenge Daytona	Half distance	Sarah Haskins-Kortuem	Pieter Heemeryck

ETU European Championship

Challenge world championship

^(a) The Challenge Forte Village Sardinia had to be held as a duathlon in 2018.

Challenge World Series 2017

On June 3, 2017 in Šamorín, Slovakia , “The Championship” was the first world championship of the Challenge racing series on the half distance (1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km running).

At the Challenge Regensburg , the German championships over the long distance were held on August 13, 2017.

Sven Riederer is co-organizer of the “Challenge Davos Festival”. With the Challenge Davos , a new race in Switzerland was added to the racing series in September 2017. Due to the cold weather conditions, the race had to be held as a bike run competition.

The Florianópolis Challenge, planned for December as the last race of the season, had to be canceled due to weather conditions.

With eleven gold medals, the athletes from the United Kingdom took the lead in the annual ranking after 31 races in the 2017 season - ahead of Germany (9 gold medals) and Canada (6 gold medals). The Swiss athletes achieved three gold medals and Thomas Steger won the two gold medals for Austria.

	date	Event	distance	Winner women	Winner men
1	Feb. 18, 2017	Challenge Wanaka	Long distance	Yvonne van Vlerken	Dougal Allan
2	0Apr 9, 2017	Challenge Melbourne	Half distance	Annabel Luxford	Sam Appleton
3	Apr 22, 2017	Challenge Mogán ( Gran Canaria )	Half distance	Emma Pallant	Alistair Brownlee
4th	23 Apr 2017	Challenge Cerrado	Half distance	Bruna meal	Paulo Maciel
5	29 Apr 2017	Challenge Taiwan	Half distance		Jan Frodeno
6th	29 Apr 2017	Challenge Taiwan	Long distance	Verena Walter	Fredrik Croneborg
7th	0May 7, 2017	Challenge Lisboa	Half distance	Lucy Charles	João José Pereira
8th	0May 7, 2017	Challenge Rimini	Half distance	Anja Beranek	Giulio Molinari
9	May 28, 2017	Challenge Salou	Half distance	Sara Loher	David McNamee
10	03rd June 2017	"The Championship" Challenge World Championship	Half distance	Lucy Charles	Lionel Sanders
11	June 10, 2017	Challenge Denmark ( Herning )	Half distance	Camilla Pedersen	Patrick Dirksmeier
12	June 11, 2017	Challenge Venice	Long distance	Sofie Goos	Lukas Krämer
13	18th June 2017	Challenge Heilbronn	Half distance	Daniela Sämmler	Boris Stein
14th	June 25, 2017	Challenge Nakhon Nayok	Half distance	Anna Eberhardt	Fredrik Croneborg
15th	June 24, 2017	Challenge Poznań	Half distance	Laura Siddall	David McNamee
16	June 24, 2017	Challenge Poznań	Long distance	Ewa Bugdol	Denis Sketako
17th	02nd July 2017	Challenge Geraardsbergen	Half distance	Tine Deckers	Trevor Wurtele
18th	02nd July 2017	Challenge San Gil	Half distance	Cecilia Perez	Tim Don
19th	0July 9, 2017	Challenge Roth	Long distance	Daniela Ryf	Bart Aernouts
20th	23rd July 2017	Challenge Iceland	Half distance	Jeanni Seymour	Justin Metzler
21st	23rd July 2017	Challenge Penticton	Half distance	Claire Robinson	Leon Griffin
22nd	23rd July 2017	Challenge Roma	Half distance	Laura Siddall	Sven Riederer
23	29th July 2017	Challenge Prague	Half distance	Lucy Charles	Pieter Heemeryck
24	13 Aug 2017	Challenge Turku	Half distance	Kaisa Sali	Dylan McNeice
25th	03rd Sep 2017	Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl (1)	Half distance *	Laura Siddall	Thomas Steger
26th	17 Sep 2017	Challenge Davos (1)	Half distance *	Lena Berlinger	Thomas Steger
27	Oct 14, 2017	Challenge Peguera Mallorca	Half distance	Heather Wurtele	Justus Nieschlag
28	Oct 22, 2017	Challenge Aruba	Half distance	Fiama Rodriguez	Cody Beals
29	Oct 22, 2017	Challenge Kanchanaburi	Half distance	Amelia Watkinson	Fredrik Croneborg
30th	Oct 29, 2017	Challenge Forte Village Sardinia	Half distance	Heather Wurtele	Vicente Hernández
31	Nov 12, 2017	Challenge Shepparton	Half distance	Anna Eberhardt-Halász	Dan Wilson

ETU European Championship

Challenge world championship

⁽¹⁾ The races in Davos and Walchsee had to be held on a shortened course.

World Challenge Series 2016

In December 2015, the new Challenge Gran Canaria on the half-distance was announced in September 2016 in Mogán .

The 2016 racing series was held with 34 races at 31 locations. The Dutch Yvonne van Vlerken and the Italian Giulio Molinari were the most successful individual athletes and each won three of these races.

	date	Event	distance	Winner women	Winner men
1	Jan. 31, 2016	Challenge Melbourne	Half distance	Ellie Salthouse	Todd Skipworth
2	Feb 20, 2016	Challenge Wanaka	Long distance	Yvonne van Vlerken	Dougal Allan
3	Apr 10, 2016	Challenge Batemans Bay	Half distance	Sarah Fletcher	Dave Kennett
4th	23 Apr 2016	Challenge Fuerteventura	Half distance	Anja Beranek	Andreas Böcherer
5	0May 7, 2016	Challenge Taiwan	Long distance	Shiao-Yu Li	Fredrik Croneborg
6th	0May 8, 2016	Challenge Rimini	Half distance	Yvonne van Vlerken	Giulio Molinari
7th	May 29, 2016	Challenge Salou Costa Daurada	Half distance	Susie Cheetham	Iñaki Baldellou
8th	05th June 2016	Challenge Venice	Long distance	Erika Csomor	Dirk Wijnalda
9	June 12, 2016	Challenge Billund-Herning	Half distance	Maja Stage Nielsen	Andreas Dreitz
10	June 12, 2016	Challenge Billund-Herning	Long distance	Mirjam Weerd	Chris Fischer
11	19th June 2016	Challenge Heilbronn	Half distance *	Laura Philipp	Andreas Böcherer
12	June 26, 2016	Challenge Galway	Half distance	Emma Bilham	David McNamee
13	June 26, 2016	Challenge Galway	Long distance	Jessica Brannigan	Daragh Molloy
14th	03rd July, 2016	Challenge San Gil Querétaro	Half distance	Lauren Goss	Davide Giardini
15th	July 10, 2016	Challenge St. Andrews	Half distance	Heather Low	Lee Roy
16	17th July 2016	Challenge Roth	Long distance	Daniela Ryf	Jan Frodeno
17th	23rd July 2016	Challenge Iceland	Half distance	Heather Wurtele	Kevin Collington
18th	July 24, 2016	Challenge Poznań	Half distance	Laura Siddall	David McNamee
19th	July 24, 2016	Challenge Poznań	Long distance	Ewa Bugdol	Denis Sketako
20th	06 Aug 2016	Challenge Fredericia	Half distance	Camilla Pedersen	Thomas Strange
21st	14 Aug 2016	Challenge Regensburg	Long distance	Julia Vernier	Jan Raphael
22nd	Aug 21, 2016	Challenge Samorin	Half distance	Bright Frederiksen	Evert Scheltinga
23	27 Aug 2016	Challenge Tønsberg	Half distance	Michelle Vesterby	Filip Ospalý
24	28 Aug 2016	Challenge Penticton	Long distance	Jen Annett	Jeff Symonds
25th	04th Sep 2016	Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl	Half distance	Julia Gajer	Giulio Molinari
26th	Sep 10 2016	Challenge Almere-Amsterdam	Long distance	Camille Deligny	Jan Raphael
27	Sep 11 2016	Challenge Vietnam	Half distance	Jessica Fleming	Mitch Robins
28	17 Sep 2016	Challenge Gran Canaria	Half distance	Emma Bilham	Thomas Steger
29	25 Sep 2016	Challenge Jeju	Half distance	Amelia Watkinson	David Mainwaring
30th	Oct 15, 2016	Challenge Paguera-Mallorca	Half distance	Judith Corachán	Pieter Heemeryck
31	Oct 23, 2016	Challenge Kanchanaburi	Half distance	Amelia Watkinson	Antony Costes
32	Oct 23, 2016	Challenge Aruba	Half distance	Yvonne van Vlerken	Per Bittner
33	Oct. 30, 2016	Challenge Sardinia	Half distance	Sara Dossena	Giulio Molinari
34	Nov 13, 2016	Challenge Shepparton	Half distance	Ellie Salthouse	Dan Wilson

ETU European Championship

USAT Long Course Championship Southeast

USAT Long Course Championship Northeast

* The Challenge Heilbronn had to be held as a duathlon in 2016 due to the weather.

With 11 gold medals, the German athletes were able to take the lead in the annual ranking of the 2016 season - ahead of Australia (8 × gold) and Denmark (6 × gold).

Distribution of medals to individual nations (after all 34 decisions of the 2016 season)
space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
01	Germany	11	7th	8th	26th
02	Australia	8th	3	4th	15th
03	Denmark	6th	5	1	12
04th	Netherlands	6th	-	2	8th
05	Canada	5	-	2	7th
06th	Italy	5	1	1	7th
07th	United Kingdom	4th	6th	7th	17th
08th	New Zealand	3	5	-	8th
09	United States	3	2	2	7th
10	Switzerland	3	1	-	4th
11	Spain	2	1	-	3
12	France	2	-	-	2
13	Hungary	1	1	-	2
14th	Czech Republic	1	-	2	3
15th	Poland	1	-	1	2
16	Sweden	1	-	-	1
16	Taiwan	1	-	-	1
16	Slovenia	1	-	-	1
16	Ireland	1	-	-	1
17th	Brazil	-	1	-	1
17th	Portugal	-	1	-	1
18th	Austria	-	-	2	2
Total		68	34 (68)	32 (68)	134 (244)

World Challenge Series 2015

A qualification system for a starting place at the Challenge Roth was introduced in 2015 .

	date	Event	distance	Winner women	Winner men
1	0Feb. 1, 2015	Challenge Melbourne	Half distance	Melissa Hauschildt	Leon Griffin
2	Feb 21, 2015	Challenge Philippines	Half distance	Emma Pooley	Domenico Passuello
3	Feb 22, 2015	Challenge Wanaka	Long distance	Gina Crawford	Dylan McNeice
4th	Feb. 27, 2015	Challenge Dubai	Half distance	Daniela Ryf	Terenzo Bozzone
5	29 Mar 2015	Challenge Batemans Bay	Half distance	Yvonne van Vlerken	Sam Appleton
6th	Apr 25, 2015	Challenge Taiwan	Half distance	Eva Potuckova	Terenzo Bozzone -2-
7th	Apr 25, 2015	Challenge Fuerteventura	Half distance	Daniela Ryf -2-	Jonathan Ciavattella
8th	17th May 2015	Challenge Knoxville	Half distance	Lesley Smith	Cameron Dye
9	May 24, 2015	Challenge Rimini , ETU European Championship	Half distance	Kaisa Lehtonen	Filip Ospalý
10	May 31, 2015	Challenge Salou Costa Darouda	Half distance	Marina Damlaimcourt	Joe Gambles
11	0June 7, 2015	Challenge Quassy	Half distance	Jodie Robertson	Pierre-Yves Gigou
12	June 13, 2015	Challenge Denmark	Half distance	Michelle Vesterby	Dirk Bockel
13	June 13, 2015	Challenge Denmark	Long distance	Beate Goertz	Chris Fischer
14th	June 14, 2015	Challenge Camsur	Half distance	Simone Brändli	Brad Kahlefeldt
15th	June 14, 2015	Challenge Williamsburg	Half distance	Meredith Kessler	Kevin Collington
16	June 21, 2015	Challenge Heilbronn	Half distance	Laura Philipp	Andreas Böcherer
17th	June 21, 2015	Challenge San Gil Querétaro	Half distance	Lauren Goss	Rodolphe Von Berg
18th	June 28, 2015	Challenge Atlantic City	Long distance	Suzy Serpico	Jeff Paul
19th	05th July 2015	Challenge St. Andrews	Half distance	Melanie McQuaid	Taylor Reid
20th	July 12, 2015	Challenge Roth	Long distance	Yvonne van Vlerken -2.	Nils Frommhold
21st	July 26, 2015	Challenge Poznań	Half distance	Diana Riesler	Bart Aernouts
22nd	16 Aug 2015	Challenge Pocono Mountains	Half distance	Darbi Roberts	James Capperall
23	23 Aug 2015	Challenge Maceió	Half distance	Maria Robnilson	Rafael Araujo Ferreirsa de Souza
24	23 Aug 2015	Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl	Half distance	Simone Brändli -2-	Giulio Molinari
25th	Aug 30, 2015	Challenge Maine	Half distance	Marie-France Roy	Gregory Dierksen
26th	Aug 30, 2015	Challenge Penticton	Long distance	Yvonne Timewell	David Matheson
27	Aug 30, 2015	Challenge Penticton	Half distance	Ailsa Macdonald	Shawn Wilyman
28	Sep 12 2015	Challenge Almere-Amsterdam	Long distance	Kathrin Walther	Markus Fachbach
29	13 Sep 2015	Challenge Cedar Point	Long distance	Emily Kratz	Steven Murray
30th	13 Sep 2015	Challenge Weymouth , ETU European Championship	Long distance	Camilla Lindholm	Marek Jaskolka
31	Oct 17, 2015	Challenge Paguera-Mallorca	Half distance	Sara Loehr Muñoz	Filip Ospalý -2-
32	Oct 25, 2015	Challenge Sardinia	Half distance	Susie Cheetham	Alessandro Degasperi
33	0Nov 7, 2015	Challenge Ixtapa	Half distance	Carrie Lester	Rodrigo González
34	0Nov 8, 2015	Challenge Florida	Half distance	Lauren Goss -2-	Erik Limkemann
35	0Nov 8, 2015	Challenge Forster	Half distance	Courtney Gilfillan	Todd Skipworth
36	Nov 15, 2015	Challenge Shepparton	Half distance	Rebekah Keat	Luke Bell
37	Nov 29, 2015	Challenge Florianopolis	Half distance	Carolina Furriela	Marcus Vinicius Fernandes
38	Nov 29, 2015	Challenge Laguna Phuket	Half distance	Simone Brändli -3-	Ruedi Wild

ETU European Championship

USAT Long Course Championship Southeast

USAT Long Course Championship Northeast

World Challenge Series 2014

date	Event	distance	Winner women	Winner men
Jan. 18, 2014	Challenge Wanaka	Long distance	Candice Hammond	Dylan McNeice
0Feb. 2, 2014	Challenge Melbourne	Half distance	Annabel Luxford	Tim Berkel
Feb 22, 2014	Challenge Philippines	Half distance	Melissa Hauschildt	Matt Burton
16. Mar. 2014	Challenge Batemans Bay	Half distance	Radka Vodičková	Brad Kahlefeldt
April 19, 2014	Challenge Taiwan	Long distance	Britta Martin	Dylan McNeice -2-
Apr 26, 2014	Challenge Fuerteventura	Half distance	Camilla Pedersen	Andreas Dreitz
May 10, 2014	Challenge Rimini	Half distance	Eimear Mullan	Domenico Passuello
15th June 2014	Challenge Kraichgau , German championship	Half distance	Julia Gajer	Sebastian Kienle
June 29, 2014	Challenge Atlantic City	Long distance	Laurel Wassner	Fredrik Croneborg
0July 6, 2014	Challenge St. Andrews	Half distance	Mirinda Carfrae	Timothy O'Donnell
20th July 2014	Challenge Roth	Long distance	Mirinda Carfrae -2-	Timo Bracht
July 27, 2014	Challenge New Albany	Half distance	Meredith Kessler	Eric Limkemann
Aug 24, 2014	Challenge Gold Coast	Long distance	Amelia Watkinson	Timothy Reed
Aug 24, 2014	Challenge Penticton	Long distance	Carrie Lester	Jeff Symonds
31 Aug 2014	Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl	Half distance	Yvonne van Vlerken	Giulio Molinari
31 Aug 2014	Challenge Vichy	Long distance	Gabriella Zelinka	Andrej Vištica
13 Sep 2014	Challenge Almere-Amsterdam , ETU European Championship	Long distance	Heleen bij de Vaate	Markus Fachbach
Sep 14 2014	Challenge Weymouth	Long distance	Eleanor Haresign	Joe Skipper
0Oct 5, 2014	Challenge Rancho Cordova	Half distance	Jennifer Spieldenner	Kevin Collington
Oct 18, 2014	Challenge Paguera-Mallorca, ETU European Championship	Half distance	Lisa Hütthaler	Giulio Molinari -2-
Oct 26, 2014	Challenge Sardinia	Half distance	Eimear Mullan -2-	Domenico Passuello -2-
0Nov 9, 2014	Challenge Forster	Half distance	Liz Blatchford	Mitchell Robins
Nov 16, 2014	Challenge Shepparton	Half distance	Annabel Luxford -2-	Joshua Amberger
Nov 30, 2014	Challenge Florianópolis	Half distance	Haley Chura	Edivânio da Silva Monteiro
Nov 30, 2014	Challenge Laguna Phuket	Half distance	Melissa Hauschildt -2-	Ruedi Wild
0Dec 6, 2014	Challenge Bahrain	Half distance	Bright Frederiksen	Michael Raelert

Challenge World Series 2013

In 2013 the world series comprised a total of 17 races.

date	Event	Winner women	Winner men
Jan. 19, 2013	Challenge Wanaka (long distance)	Gina Crawford	Dylan McNeice
Apr 13, 2013	Challenge Fuerteventura (half distance)	Lisa Nordén	Jens Toft
04th May 2013	Challenge Taiwan (long distance)	Belinda Granger	Dylan McNeice -2-
May 19, 2013	Challenge Barcelona-Maresme (half distance), ETU European Championship	Camilla Pedersen	Francisco Javier Gómez Noya
May 26, 2013	Challenge Rimini (half distance)	Erika Csomor	Chris McCormack
0June 9, 2013	Challenge Kraichgau (half distance)	Yvonne van Vlerken	Boris Stein
June 23, 2013	Challenge Aarhus (half distance)	Camilla Pedersen -2-	Swen Sundberg
July 14, 2013	Challenge Roth (long distance)	Caroline Steffen	Dirk Bockel
July 28, 2013	Challenge Vitoria (long distance)	Ana Casares Polo	Pedro Ribeiro Gomes
25 Aug 2013	Challenge Penticton (long distance)	Carrie Lester	Jeff Symonds
0Sep 1 2013	Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl (half distance)	Yvonne van Vlerken -2-	James Cunnama
0Sep 1 2013	Challenge Vichy (long distance), ETU European Championship	Diana Riesler	Andrej Vištica
08 Sep 2013	Challenge Henley-on-Thames (long distance)	Bella Bayliss	Tom Lowe
Sep 14 2013	Challenge Almere-Amsterdam (long distance)	Susan sheet	Bart Colpaert
0Oct 6, 2013	Challenge Barcelona-Maresme (long distance)	Eva Wutti	Sérgio Marques
Nov 24, 2013	Challenge Forster (half distance)	Rebecca Hoschke	Tim Reed
0Dec. 1, 2013	Challenge Laguna Phuket (Half Distance)	Melissa Hauschildt	Rasmus Petræus

Challenge World Series 2012

In 2012, the European Triathlon Union (ETU) championship was held for the first time as part of the Challenge Roth in its 11th edition.

date	Event	Winner women	Winner men
May 21, 2012	Challenge Wanaka (long distance)	Gina Crawford	Aaron Farlow
Apr 14, 2012	Challenge Fuerteventura (half distance)	Emma-Kate Lidbury	Rasmus Henning
May 27, 2012	Challenge Barcelona-Maresme (half distance)	Camilla Pedersen	Per Bittner
June 10, 2012	Challenge Kraichgau (half distance), ETU European Championship	Julia Gajer	Andreas Raelert
17th June 2012	Challenge Aarhus (half distance)	Camilla Pedersen -2-	Reto Hug
0July 8, 2012	Challenge Roth (long distance), ETU European Championship	Rachel Joyce	James Cunnama
Aug 12, 2012	Challenge Copenhagen (long distance)	Camilla Pedersen -3-	Aaron Farlow
Aug 19, 2012	Challenge Vichy (long distance)	Martina Dogana	Stephen Bayliss
0Sep 2 2012	Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl (half distance)	Gina Crawford -2-	Andreas Raelert -2-
16 Sep 2012	Challenge Henley-on-Thames (long distance)	Gina Crawford -3-	Stephen Bayliss -2-
Sep 30 2012	Challenge Barcelona-Maresme (long distance)	Lucy Gossage	Bas Diederen

World Challenge Series 2011

In 2011, twelve races were held at eleven venues, seven of which were on the Ironman distance:

date	Event	Winner women	Winner men
May 15, 2011	Challenge Wanaka (long distance)	Belinda Granger	Jamie Whyte
0May 1, 2011	Challenge Fuerteventura (half distance)	Eva Ledesma	Rasmus Henning
May 29, 2011	Challenge Barcelona-Maresme (half distance)	Eva Ledesma -2-	Sylvain Sudrie
0June 5, 2011	Challenge Cairns (long distance)	Rebekah Keat	Chris McCormack
0June 5, 2011	Challenge Kraichgau (half distance)	Yvonne van Vlerken	Andreas Raelert
0July 3, 2011	Challenge Aarhus (half distance)	Caroline Steffen	Rasmus Petræus
July 10, 2011	Challenge Roth (long distance)	Chrissie Wellington	Andreas Raelert -2-
Aug 14, 2011	Challenge Copenhagen (long distance)	Rebekah Keat -2-	Tim Berkel
Aug 21, 2011	Challenge Vichy (long distance)	Amy Marsh	Stephen Bayliss
04th Sep 2011	Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl (half distance)	Yvonne van Vlerken -2-	Ronnie Schildknecht
Sep 18 2011	Challenge Henley-on-Thames (long distance)	Yvette Grice	Petr Vabroušek
0Oct 2, 2011	Challenge Barcelona-Maresme (long distance)	Michelle Mitchell	Clemente Alonso McKernan

World Challenge Series 2010

In 2010, eight races were organized at seven venues, four of which were on the Ironman distance:

date	Event	Winner women	Winner men
May 16, 2010	Challenge Wanaka (long distance)	Gina Crawford	Richard Ussher
May 16, 2010	Challenge Barcelona-Maresme (half distance)	Tiina Boman	Sylvain Sudrie
0June 6, 2010	Challenge Kraichgau (half distance)	Rebekah Keat	Normann Stadler
June 13, 2010	Challenge Niederbronn-les-Bains (half distance)	Rebekah Keat -2-	Raynard Tissink
July 18, 2010	Challenge Roth (long distance)	Chrissie Wellington	Rasmus Henning
Aug 15, 2010	Challenge Copenhagen (long distance)	Rebekah Keat -3-	Tim Berkel
05th Sep 2010	Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl (half distance)	Yvonne van Vlerken	Michael Weiss
0Oct 3, 2010	Challenge Barcelona-Maresme (long distance)	Lucie Zelenková	Jimmy Johnsen

World Challenge Series 2009

date	Event	Winner women	Winner men
Jan. 17, 2009	Challenge Wanaka (long distance)	Gina Ferguson	Chris McDonald
May 24, 2009	Challenge Barcelona-Maresme (half distance)	Virginia Berasategui	Clemente Alonso McKernan
0June 7, 2009	Challenge Niederbronn-les-Bains (half distance)	Rebekah Keat	Chris McCormack -2-
June 14, 2009	Challenge Kraichgau (half distance)	Rebekah Keat -2-	Sebastian Kienle
July 12, 2009	Challenge Roth (long distance)	Chrissie Wellington	Michael Göhner
0Oct 4, 2009	Challenge Barcelona-Maresme (long distance)	Sofie Goos	Marcel Zamora Pérez

Challenge World Series 2008

date	Event	Winner women	Winner men
Jan. 19, 2008	Challenge Wanaka (long distance)	Gina Ferguson	Marc Pschebizin
May 25, 2008	Challenge Niederbronn-les-Bains (half distance)	Belinda Granger	François Chabaud
July 13, 2008	Challenge Roth (long distance)	Yvonne van Vlerken	Patrick Vernay

World Challenge Series 2007

date	Event	Winner women	Winner men
Jan. 20, 2007	Challenge Wanaka (long distance)	Belinda Granger	Luke Dragstra
June 24, 2007	Challenge Roth (long distance)	Yvonne van Vlerken	Chris McCormack

Challenge 2002 to 2006

In 2002 and 2004 up to and including 2006, the Challenge Roth (long distance) was the only event in the Challenge series .

In 2003, the Worlds Best Triathlon Series was organized with the Hilpoltstein Challenge over the middle distance, the Erding Challenge over the Olympic distance and, as the final event of the Roth Challenge, the Ironman distance.

	date	Event	distance	Winner women	Winner men
1	0June 7, 2003	Challenge Hilpoltstein	Middle distance	Heike Funk	Lothar leather
2	June 22, 2003	Challenge Erding	Short distance	Heike Funk -2-	Lothar leather -2-
3	0July 6, 2003	Challenge Roth	Long distance	Nicole leather	Lothar leather -3-

→ For the winners from 2002 to 2006 see also Challenge Roth #winner list .

See also

• Ironman (WTC)
• Ironman 70.3 (WTC)

Web links

• Website of the racing series

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.challenge-family.com/
2. ↑ A man for all cases . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten . July 13, 2002.
3. ↑ Nürnberger Nachrichten of October 29, 2007: On the death of triathlon organizer Herbert Walchshöfer (accessed on March 19, 2014)
4. ^ Organization Challenge Roth (accessed on March 19, 2014)
5. ↑ Worlds Best Triathlon . Archived from the original on December 31, 2003.
6. ↑ Will the little Challenge brother stay in the race? . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten . September 18, 2003.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Frank Wechsel: Chris McCormack becomes an ambassador for the Challenge Family . In: tri-mag.de . October 11, 2012.
8. ^ ^{A b} Challenge Family and Rev3 announce partnership. (No longer available online.) September 4, 2014, archived from the original on September 7, 2014 ; accessed on September 7, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ The world's best athletes will be at the start of the Challenge Bahrain (August 22, 2014)
10. ↑ Challenge series increases the prize money again - the 1 million dollar mark is cracked
11. ↑ Panting for the Triathlon Million (February 25, 2015)
12. ↑ Challenge Dubai attracts US $ 300,000 in prize money
13. ↑ Challenge Dubai Draws Million-Dollar Field ( Memento from March 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
14. ↑ Triple Crown wobbles: Challenge Oman canceled (May 18, 2015)
15. ↑ Challenge announces night triathlon in Bahrain (June 9, 2015)
16. ↑ No Challenge Bahrain In: tri-mag.de. October 22, 2015
17. ↑ Pro Triathlon Union lets the waves go wild . In: triaguide.com . July 31, 2015.
18. ↑ The Walchshöfer family withdraws from the Challenge Family (December 15, 2015)
19. ↑ CHALLENGEFAMILY INTRODUCES A WORLD RANKING FOR PRO-ATHLETES
20. ↑ Let's make money - Kienle, Dapena and Van Vlerken win Challenge Family World Bonus
21. ↑ Challenge Family Awards European Prize Money Bonuses  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (November 10, 2016)  
22. ↑ Van Vlerken, Skipper and Kramer top Challenge European rankings (November 15, 2017)
23. ^ Kai Baumgartner: Date collision 2003 Source Challenge Roth and Ironman Frankfurt . In: 3athlon.de . June 1, 2002. Archived from the original on January 23, 2004.
24. ↑ Kai Baumgartner: QUELLE CHALLENGE ROTH NOW TOGETHER WITH GERMAN LONG-DISTANCE CHAMPIONSHIP ON JULY 6, 2003 . In: 3athlon.de . October 4, 2002. Archived from the original on February 17, 2004.
25. ↑ Jens Richter: Corpus team apparently before dissolution . In: tri2b.com . December 28, 2002.
26. ↑ Karin Bühler: As with 40 degrees fever . In: Berliner Zeitung . July 10, 2008.
27. ↑ ^{a b} Dan Empfield: It's now Ironman Cairns! . In: slowtwitch.com . March 12, 2012.
28. ↑ ^{a b c} Challenge Aarhus and Copenhagen will be Ironman races (June 26, 2013)
29. ↑ Jan Sägert: Challenge Family loses Kraichgau classic . In: tri-mag.de .
30. ^ Frank Hellmann: A spicy change in personnel . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . 1. November 2013.
31. ↑ The fight for the sports crazy . In: The time . July 10, 2015.
32. ↑ IRONMAN Announces Barcelona Events (April 15, 2014)
33. ↑ Challenge Cape Town only in 2012
34. ↑ Jan Sägert: Challenge Family loses Kraichgau classic . In: tri-mag.de .
35. ↑ Challenge Series: Vichy follows Niederbronn Les-Bains . In: tri2b.com . October 24, 2010.
36. ↑ IRONMAN TAKES OVER LONG DISTANCE OF THE CHALLENGE VICHY (January 15, 2015)
37. ↑ www.triathlonvitoria.com
38. ↑ Challenge competition in St. Pölten canceled for this year (April 2, 2020)
39. ↑ What is the "Collins Cup"? (January 21, 2020)
40. ↑ A warm welcome to Challenge St. Pölten
41. ↑ Triathlon middle distance European Championship 2020 in Walchsee (May 30, 2019)
42. ↑ Cancellation of Challenge Prague 2020 (February 8, 2020)
43. ↑ Challenge the Alps (February 13, 2020)
44. ↑ The ticker from the Alps: Challenge Davos canceled in a thunderstorm (August 29, 2020)
45. ↑ CHALLENGE FAMILY: RADKA KAHLEFELDT AND PIETER HEEMERYCK ARE THE BEST IN 2019 (December 16, 2019)
46. ↑ TRIATHLONNEWS: AZEVEDO WINNER AGAIN IN SHANGHAI, SCHUSTER FOURTH (October 20, 2019)
47. ↑ Cancellation of the Challenge Regensburg 2018
48. ↑ End of Challenge Regensburg? - Challenge Family separates from the organizer
49. ↑ And in 2017 the EM comes to Regensburg (August 11, 2016)
50. ↑ CHALLENGE MADRID CARRIES OUT THE LONG DISTANCE EM 2018 (January 12, 2018)
51. ↑ Challenge Penticton organizer looking for new brand (September 18, 2017)
52. ↑ CHALLENGE FORTE VILLAGE SARDINIA: VICTORY FOR THOES, BERLINGER AND FUNK THIRD PARTIES (October 28, 2018)
53. ↑ Challenge-Family announces its own world championship (April 20, 2016)
54. ↑ The Championship: High-speed decision expected at the new Challenge Family Championship (May 31, 2017)
55. ↑ Challenge Family Welcomes Challenge Davos Festival To Its Ever-Growing Global Triathlon Series ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (May 2, 2017) 
56. ↑ Steger wins snow chaos at Challenge Davos
57. ↑ BERLINGER AND STEGER WIN THE CRAZY CHALLENGE DAVOS (September 18, 2017)
58. ^ Cyclone forces Challenge Florianópolis cancellation
59. ↑ McNamee, Loher win Challenge Salou (May 28, 2017)
60. ↑ Challenge series introduces qualification mode for Challenge Roth (April 21, 2015)
61. ↑ challenge-family.com: Challenge Almere-Amsterdam to host 2014 ETU European Long Distance Triathlon Championships ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (January 6, 2014) 
62. ↑ etu.triathlon.org: Challenge Mallorca to host 2014 ETU European Middle Distance Triathlon Championships (January 22, 2014)
63. ↑ Long and middle distance European Championships 2012 in Roth and Kraichgau (February 22, 2012)
64. ^ Kai Baumgartner: Half Challenge Barcelona, ​​disqualification of the Spaniard Virginia Berasategui Luna canceled. . In: 3athlon.de . October 25, 2009. Archived from the original on November 1, 2009.
65. ^ McCormack, Keat win Niederbronn-les-Bains. Retrieved September 28, 2011 . 
66. ↑ Challenge Kraichgau 2009, middle distance - men and women
67. ^ Challenge France: Francois Chabaud and Belinda Granger win premiere