Sporting Events

The last event of the Sanitarium Weetbix Kids TRYathlon 2013 series took yet again place in Townsville. With its tropical settings, Thuringowa Central, located on the beautiful Ross River, is one of the most picturesque venues the tour has seen this year. The tropical lagoon is where the swim started for the 700 Weetbix champions,

Closing on the end of the season for the series, the Brisbane event was this year a success from the gecko (in contrary of last years event which was rained out and needed to be rescheduled). 1,500 keen Brisbanites took on the swim, bike and run at the Springwood Aquatic Centre and surrounds, starting in

The third last event of the Weet-bix series was held on Mother’s Day and took place in Caboolture, Sunshine Coast. Set in one of the best venues of the series, the Caboolture Regional Aquatic & Leisure Centre at Burpengary, kids started their swim in the fantastic olympic-sized pool,  after which they went next door to

The Western Australia Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon event was held in Perth in the beautiful Langley Park, right on the picturesque Swan River. The 1600 participants and their enthusiastic families were blessed with great weather, the morning clouds clearing as daylight set in, just in time for race start at 9.30am. The various age groups battled

Unlike in other parts of Australia, like the Gold Coast, down in Adelaide the weather was ideal for another great Weet-Bix Kids TRYAthlon event. Compared to other Weet-Bix events the Adelaide one is relatively small however that certainly did not mean there was less spirit from participants and spectators. For the South Australian little athletes

In its 7th year of running, 2013 turned out to be the most successful year yet for the Herald Hill to Harbour fun run in Newcastle. Over 3,000 people participated combined over the 4 races of the day; the 21km Half Marathon, 10km Fun Run, 5km Fun Run and the 2km Kids Run. The 10km

In 2013 the Sparke Helmore / NBN Triathlon Festival celebrated it’s 20th anniversary and with this their amazing achievement of raising in excess of $420,000 for the Newcastle based Hunter Medical Research Institute. With 4 events hosted in just 3 days, the festival was opened on Friday afternoon with the NewFM Foreshore5, a 5 km fun run/walk

Hosting the Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon Event in regional Victoria on the last weekend of February was the historic city of Bendigo; a vibrant contemporary regional centre, boasting beautiful streets created from one of the world’s greatest gold rushes. The race started with a swim at the Bendigo Aquatic Centre, ahead of a bike ride around

Yet again a sold out event, the 70.3 Ironman Canberra was held on 16 December 2012 with over 1,500 athletes competing. This year the weather conditions were perfect with calm lake conditions and a sunny day with reasonable temperatures. As one of the toughest events in the world, the half Ironman course combined a 1.9km

Sun, sand, sea… and Netball! Blessed with 4 days of beautiful weather, according to Netball Australia and a lot of the competitors, Netfest 2012 was the best Netfest event thus far. With 3 times more entries than the 2011 event, this years event was held at 2 Gold Coast locations simultaneously; Surfers Paradise and Mudgeeraba, with Surfers Paradise being the first beach netball competition in the series.