Hy-Vee Discontinues Popular Triathlon
Premier Event Management will continue to produce the event, but it's unclear at this point if there will be an elite race or prize purse.
Premier Event Management will continue to produce the event, but it's unclear at this point if there will be an elite race or prize purse.
The big-money race paid 30 deep, with $100,000 going to first place and $500 going to 30th place.
The pros will be competing for their share of a $500,000 pro prize purse this Sunday in Des Moines, Iowa.
The men's podium finished in the exact same order as in 2012, while the women's race saw an all-new top three.
The professionals competing in the Hy-Vee 5150 U.S. Championship on September 2 will not swim in the Des Moines River as planned.
The Des Moines, Iowa race is known for having the largest prize purse in the sport, with $151,500 going to the winners.
We now know the names of 43 athletes who will compete in Des Moines, Iowa for the richest prize purse in the sport.
The Hy-Vee Triathlon brings money to the sport and to the Des Moines-area.
It was a fast and exciting day at the first-ever non-drafting Hy-Vee Triathlon.
Australia's Greg Bennett overtook the entire field at the men's Hy-Vee Triathlon Elite Cup race, cruising into the finish line in 1:49:52 to take home the $151,500 winner’s check.
Thirty top female pros came to Des Moines, Iowa to race the fifth annual Hy-Vee Triathlon on Sunday.
We asked pro triathlete Jenny Fletcher about this weekend’s Hy-Vee race, how she hydrates in the heat and her second career in modeling.
When the pre-race favorites have met earlier in the year it seems a different man has come out on top every time.
Two American Olympic qualifiers and two American Olympic hopefuls highlight the women’s field for this weekend’s Hy-vee Triathlon in Des Moines, Iowa.
The Hy-Vee race has the largest prize purse in the sport, at $1.1 million, with $151,500 going to the men and women’s winners.
The World Triathlon Corporation, owners of the Ironman triathlon series, has used the week leading up to the Ironman World Championship to announce the introduction of a new Olympic-distance triathlon series.