Aquabike.events proudly presents: Coach Steve´s Aquabike Training Plans

Last summer we presented Coach Steve´s 12 week aquabike training plan to get ready for the European Aquabike Championships in Bilbao in September. I´m really excited to inform you that Coach Steve now created a whole bunch of aquabike specific training plans for different race distances, performance levels and time periods. To make it really easy to find the right training plan for you to prepare for your season highlight, we created a little tool to help you with that.

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2023 Long Distance Aquabike World Championships Ibiza Course Details

The 2023 Long Distance Aquabike World Championships will take place on May 7^th – quite early in the season for most European and North American athletes. Many details are not yet announced. But last week the organizer uploaded a pdf with the course detail on the event website. So let´s take a closer look.

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2023 World Triathlon Competition Rules for Aquabike

On December 1st World Triathlon published the 2023 edition of the competition rules which brought a significant change – or actually recall – regarding World Triathlon sanctioned aquabike races. In this article I´d like to elucidate the pros and cons of the new/old rules. But first of all I´ll start with a little history lesson by taking a look at the previous versions of aquabike related rules in the ITU / World Triathlon competition rules.

It was in 2016 when rules for aquabike were integrated in the Competition Rules of the ITU (at this time World Triathlon was still called International Triathlon Union) for the first time.

Aquabike consists of Swimming, Transition area 1, biking and Transition area 2.

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Athletes will finish the race at the finish line located by the T2 exit. The time registered in this point is the final time.

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The new (and last) Leader of Men´s Aquabike Ranking Europe

Well… actually we only include races in Europe for the Aquabike Ranking Europe. However, it´s a World Championship. So we decided to include the first ever Standard Distance Aquabike World Championships in the rankings. It´s the first race outside Europe that´s included in the Aquabike Ranking Europe. And it will also be the last. Because Aquabike Ranking Europe will come to an end by the end of the year. But there´s no reason to be sad. Because something better is coming up…

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World Aquabike Championships Abu Dhabi Race Report

So the first ever Standard Distance Aquabike World Championships are done and dusted. Despite the exotic location and the date long after the end of the racing season for most athletes in the northern hemisphere almost 200 aquabike athletes started the race in Abu Dhabi. Many of the top ranked aquabikers might have been absent, but it still was certainly a well worthy World Championship race. The top 20 finishers came from 14 different countries, showing that this multisport discipline is not only attracting athletes in the two “home countries” of aquabike racing. There was only one athlete from both, the United States and Great Britain, in the top 20 of the men’s race.

But the conditions certainly where not easy especially from athletes who travelled from the cold northern November to the heat of Abu Dhabi. Looking at the results it really seems like athletes from the southern hemisphere had to struggle less with the warm conditions. The only country who had three athletes in the top 20 in the end was… was Brazil! Parabéns!

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World Aquabike Championships Abu Dhabi Race Preview

While the triathlon and aquabike racing season is long over in Europe, some athletes still have a season highlight coming up next weekend. The World Triathlon Championship Finals will host the first ever Aquabike World Championship over standard distance, taking place on Saturday, November 26^th in Abu Dhabi.

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Week 43 Race Reports

The Spanish town Sitges, about 30 km from Barcelona, was host town of the final race of the aquabike season 2022 in Europe. 32 aquabike athletes finished what was not only the last but also one of the most demanding aquabike races of the season.

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Week 41 Race Reports

While the triathlon and aquabike racing season has already ended in most parts of Europe we had the penultimate aquabike race in Spain last weekend. Or actually races. The ICAN Triathlon Gandia on the Spanish east coast south of Valencia offered aquabike option over the middle distance as well as over the long distance. With rather big numbers of aquabike athletes in both races we saw some remarkable performances and close finishes.

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Week 38 & 39 Race Reports

OK, this one comes a little late. But we are currently super busy working on a huge update of aquabike.world. So bear with us, it will pay off 😉. Nevertheless we want to honor the performances of aquabike athletes over the last few weeks. While we had the European Championships in Bilbao (see our race report) there were two more middle distance races in Spain and the final races of the aquabike season on the British Island.

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European Champions top the Aquabike Ranking Europe

Over the last few weeks we have seen quite some changes at the top of the men´s as well as the women´s rankings. But the new leaders of the rankings are there to stay for a while. At least until the end of the year.

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