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All About triathlon
The history 0f triathlon A swimming club in Marseilles,
France, held a 3-sport event in 1921, that consisted of a bike leg of about
seven kilometers, a 5-kilometre run, and a 200-metre swim. It was called the
Course Des Trois Sports (Race of 3
Sports).
The club only ever held this one event and it was more than fifty years before the modern triathlon was created. It grew out of a run-swim biathlon staged in San Diego by David Pain in 1972 to celebrate his Fiftieth birthday. The birthday biathlon was repeated in 1973. 1 of the competitors, Jack Johnstone, enjoyed it so much that he decided to stage his own event, and he enlisted the help of a friend, Don Shanahan. |
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Shanahan suggested that a bike leg be added. They got the support of the San Diego Track Club, which announced a "Run, Cycle, Swim Triathlon" to be held on Sept. 25, 1974. The event was so successful that Shanahan and Johnstone decided to hold 3 more of them in 1975. In the meantime, the Coronado, CA, Optimists Club also sponsored a triathlon. It was the Ironman, though, that really caught the public eye and led to a major explosion of the new sport. John Collins, an American Naval officer who competed in that 1st triathlon, took the idea to Hawaii, where he combined 3 major endurance races, the 3.8-kilometre Waikiki Rough Water Swim, the 180-kilometre Around-Oahu Bike Race and the 42.195-kilometre Honolulu Marathon, into a single race to be known as the Ironman Triathlon. |
Only twelve men finished the 1st Ironman, held in January of 1978. In 1979, there were fourteen finishers, including 1 woman.
The 2nd race inspired a major article that ran in Sports Illustrated in May of 1979. As a result, one-hundred and eight participants entered for the 1980 triathlon, and so did ABC's Wide World of Sports.
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