ITU World Championship Series 2014

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The World Championship Series 2014 is a triathlon racing series over the "short distance" or "Olympic triathlon distance". It is organized by the international triathlon association ITU ( International Triathlon Union ).

organization

The distances for these races are 1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running. This world series has been organized annually by the International Triathlon Union (ITU) since 1989 . In the 2014 season, seven races and the finale were held in Edmonton, Canada at the end of August.

date place
April 5-6, 2014 New ZealandNew Zealand Auckland
April 26-27, 2014 South AfricaSouth Africa Cape Town
May 17-18, 2014 JapanJapan Yokohama
May 31 - June 1, 2014 United KingdomUnited Kingdom London
June 27-29, 2014 United StatesUnited States Chicago
July 12-13, 2014 GermanyGermany Hamburg
August 23-24, 2014 SwedenSweden Stockholm
August 30-31, 2014 CanadaCanada Edmonton

Rating

Start of the U23 women at the Edmonton Grand Final on August 31, 2014

In addition to the eight races of the world series, the other races of the ITU World Cup are also taken into account for the annual ranking of the world championship:
At the finale in Edmonton in August there are 1200 points for a win and at the other seven races of the world series there are 800 points for a win . In a normal ITU World Cup, however, there are only 300 points. Every further placement in these races receives a fixed number of points.

The best four results of the world series, the last final race and a maximum of two World Cup races were taken into account for the annual ranking.

Results

Men

date place gold time silver time bronze time
0Apr 6, 2014 New ZealandNew Zealand Auckland SpainSpain Javier Gomez 1:54:13 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jonathan Brownlee 1:54:33 AustraliaAustralia Aaron Royle 1:55:49
Apr. 27, 2014 South AfricaSouth Africa Cape Town SpainSpainJavier Gómez -2- 1:44:52 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jonathan Brownlee 1:45:11 RussiaRussia Dmitri Polyansky 1:45:35
May 18, 2014 JapanJapan Yokohama SpainSpainJavier Gómez -3- 1:45:31 SpainSpain Mario Mola 1:45:31 South AfricaSouth Africa Richard Murray 1:46:00
May 31, 2014 United KingdomUnited Kingdom London SpainSpain Mario Mola 0:49:46 South AfricaSouth Africa Richard Murray 0:49:47 PortugalPortugal João José Pereira 0:49:49
June 29, 2014 United StatesUnited States Chicago SpainSpainJavier Gómez -4- 1:47:21 PortugalPortugal João José Pereira 1:47:29 SpainSpain Mario Mola 1:47:40
July 12, 2014 GermanyGermany Hamburg United KingdomUnited Kingdom Alistair Brownlee 0:51:43 FranceFrance Vincent Luis 0:51:45 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jonathan Brownlee 0:51:48
23 Aug 2014 SwedenSweden Stockholm United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jonathan Brownlee 0:57:31 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Alistair Brownlee 0:57:37 GermanyGermany Gregor Buchholz 0:58:27
31 Aug 2014 CanadaCanada Edmonton United KingdomUnited KingdomAlistair Brownlee -2- 1:48:44 SpainSpain Mario Mola 1:49:04 SpainSpain Javier Gomez 1:49:07

Women

date place gold time silver time bronze time
0Apr 5, 2014 New ZealandNew Zealand Auckland United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jodie Stimpson 2:08:34 GermanyGermany Anne Haug 2:08:59 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Helen Jenkins 2:09:10
Apr 26, 2014 South AfricaSouth Africa Cape Town * United KingdomUnited KingdomJodie Stimpson -2- 1:46:11 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Helen Jenkins 1:46:18 United StatesUnited States Gwen Jorgensen 1:46:33
17th May 2014 JapanJapan Yokohama United StatesUnited States Gwen Jorgensen 1:58:38 JapanJapan Ai Ueda 1:59:14 PolandPoland Agnieszka Jerzyk 1:59:24
May 31, 2014 United KingdomUnited Kingdom London United StatesUnited StatesGwen Jorgensen -2- 0:54:44 United StatesUnited States Sarah Groff 0:55:12 AustraliaAustralia Emma Jackson 0:55:19
June 28, 2014 United StatesUnited States Chicago United StatesUnited StatesGwen Jorgensen -3- 1:55:33 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Helen Jenkins 1:55:53 JapanJapan Yuri Ide 1:56:00
July 12, 2014 GermanyGermany Hamburg United StatesUnited StatesGwen Jorgensen -4- 0:56:54 AustraliaAustralia Emma Jackson 0:57:00 CanadaCanada Kirsten Sweetland 0:57:00
23 Aug 2014 SwedenSweden Stockholm United StatesUnited States Sarah Groff 1:03:00 New ZealandNew Zealand Andrea Hewitt 1:03:04 New ZealandNew Zealand Nicky Samuels 1:03:05
Aug 30, 2014 CanadaCanada Edmonton United StatesUnited StatesGwen Jorgensen -5- 2:00:05 New ZealandNew Zealand Andrea Hewitt 2:00:21 New ZealandNew Zealand Nicky Samuels 2:00:31

* During the race in Cape Town on April 26th, the swimming distance for women had to be shortened from 1500 to 750 meters due to the weather.

Overall rating

Men

Javier Gómez - Triathlon world champion on the short distance (2008, 2010, 2013 and 2014)

In August 2014, Javier Gómez was able to secure the world championship title on the short distance again in Canada with third place in the last race of the ITU World Championship series in 2014 - his fourth title after 2008, 2010 and 2013.

space country athlete Points
1 SpainSpain ESP Javier Gomez 4,860
2 SpainSpain ESP Mario Mola 4,601
3 United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR Jonathan Brownlee 4,501
4th United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR Alistair Brownlee 4,006
5 PortugalPortugal POR João José Pereira 3.817
6th FranceFrance FRA Vincent Luis 3,148
11 GermanyGermany DEU Gregor Buchholz 1.965
14th SwitzerlandSwitzerland CHE Sven Riederer 1,828
20th GermanyGermany DEU Steffen Justus 1,538
42 SwitzerlandSwitzerland CHE Andrea Nicolas Salvisberg 790
44 AustriaAustria AUT Alois Knabl 749

183 athletes in the ranking; As of September 1, 2014

Women

Gwen Jorgensen - Triathlon World Champion on the short distance (2014)

As part of the 2014 ITU World Championship racing series, the American Gwen Jorgensen was able to win four races in a row, which no other athlete has achieved before and in August, she won the final race of the racing series ("Grand Final") in Canada with her fifth victory ) secure the world championship title on the triathlon short distance.

space country Athlete Points
1 United StatesUnited States United States Gwen Jorgensen 5,085
2 United StatesUnited States United States Sarah Groff 3,987
3 New ZealandNew Zealand NZL Andrea Hewitt 3,845
4th United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR Jodie Stimpson 3,453
5 New ZealandNew Zealand NZL Nicky Samuels 3,073
6th United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR Helen Jenkins 2,903
7th AustraliaAustralia OUT Emma Jackson 2,903
17th AustraliaAustralia OUT Emma Moffatt 1.965
22nd GermanyGermany DEU Rebecca Robisch 1,585
37 AustriaAustria AUT Lisa Perterer 1,099
55 GermanyGermany DEU Hanna Philippin 587
89 SwitzerlandSwitzerland CHE Celine Schärer 224

146 female athletes in the ranking; As of September 1, 2014

U23

On the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) the world champions in the U23 category are determined annually as part of the race at the last venue of the season (Grand Final).

Men Women
Date / year venue U23 world champion Second Third
Aug 30, 2014 CanadaCanada Edmonton FranceFrance Dorian Coninx United KingdomUnited Kingdom Marc Austin United KingdomUnited Kingdom Gordon Benson
year U23 world champion Second third
2014 GermanyGermany Sophia Saller AustraliaAustralia Gillian Backhouse United StatesUnited States Erin Jones

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ITU World Triathlon Series Rankings 2014