Over the past weeks our Abu Dhabi Triathlon Team were busy training and competing at preparation races for the first highlights of the season.

With the award ceremony, which is at the day after the race, the Ironman World Championships 2009 are finished. For many athletes it was the last race of this year’s season.As for Faris Al-Sultan who was so far not very happy with his results 2009. He came to Hawaii to finish at least top 10. He had some muscular problems, which he tried to get rite of together with the team doctor Dr. Andreas...

In a few days the Ironman World Championship takes place on the biggest of the Hawaiian islands, Big Island, 31 years after the Ironman was born in Honolulu. In the usually quiet village of Kailua-Kona, which is on the west coast of the island, athletes will fight for the title in the pro category and in the different age group categories on October 10th. Beside a few exceptions, all the...

Faris Al-SultanSince 1999, Faris has competed every year except two on the Big Island. He worked his way continuously up, year by year, until he won the race in 2005. The last two years he had some health problems, which made things difficult. The last months he worked a lot on these problems, and he sorted most of the things out. The training in the last weeks worked really well and together...

After Andi had to make a training- and racing-break in summer because of an injury, Canada was his first Ironman race this year. It was not his goal to qualify for Hawaii, but he wanted to get close to his big wish to win an Ironman race once.
In Penticton Andi showed that he is ready for that in swimming and cycling. He left the lake on place 2 and after a few kilometres on the bike he took...
