Ezequiel Morales of Argentina’s 8:45:18 topped Stefan Schmid of Austria by 12 minutes 33 seconds; Jessica Jacobs erased Meredith Kessler’s big lead off the bike to win Ironman Wisconsin by 9 minutes 42 seconds.

American Lukas Verzbicas dedicated his at the ITU Junior World Championships win to teammate Kevin McDowell, ill with Hodgkins lymphoma; fellow American Tony Smoragiewicz took bronze.

Craig Alexander grabbed his second 70.3 World Championship title, but this time it happened at the new venue in Las Vegas. Melissa Rollison fulfilled all pre-race hype and expectations and ran away with the women’s title.

Andrea Hewitt of New Zealand takes the Grand Final, Helen Jenkins’ 2nd place wraps up WCS title, Bennett 5th in GF, Groff’s 10th earns 3rd in WCS, Aussie shut out in Beijing

Today the Marines Ironman 70.3 World Championships athletes checked in their bikes at T1 between noon and 6pm and we were there to check it out.

Tom Zaferes makes it two Tri-Cal wins in a row with a 13-second margin over John Dahlz and Radka Vodickova outruns Becky Lavelle to win Pacific Grove

In this week’s installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray gives his own thoughts on what to look forward to from this year’s Interbike show in Las Vegas.

The 2011 Marines Ironman 70.3 World Championships are taking place in Las Vegas this year and the race promises to be very exciting. Images by Herbert Krabel.

I write an Interbike preview every year for members of the bike industry, and this is it.  It’s geared to retailers, and it’s read by many exhibitors as well. But everybody gets to read it, because, well, this is Slowtwitch.

Mathew Sharp from Great Britain won gold at the ITU U23 World Championships In Beijing, China and fellow Brits David McNamee and Tom Bishop earned silver and bronze. American Greg Billington finished fourth.

Alistair Brownlee put on a dominating performance in Beijing and grabbed the 2011 ITU World Championship title. Sven Riederer finished second on the day but third placed Jonathan Brownlee grabbed the runner-up spot in the series.

Timothy Carlson picks an Aussie newcomer who can run like the wind to outpace Dibens, Ellis, Morrison and Swallow. With Michael Raelert out, the men’s race is wide open.

Kiwi Pro Gina Crawford had quite a bit going recently but not much evolved around triathlon. Crawford gave birth to a baby boy a couple months ago and her world was shaken by the Christchurch earthquakes.

Ronnie Schildknecht beat Timo Bracht by 2:30 and Yvonne Van Vlerken edged Eva Dollinger by 1:20 at Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl in Austria

Lisa Norden of Sweden passed Sarah Haskins with a kilometer to go on the run and held off IM world champ Mirinda Carfrae to win the women’s title at the Hy-Vee 5150

Veteran Greg Bennett ran a canny, well balanced race to outpace Hunter Kemper by 29 seconds and joined his wife Laura, the 2007 winner, as Hy-Vee champions in Des Moines.

Joerie Vansteelant of Belgium dominated the men’s field and Melanie Burke of New Zealand topped Eva Nystrom of Sweden by 3:47 at the ITU LD Duathlon Worlds at Zofingen

Jordan Rapp does not have the gift of literary timdity. Thank goodness. If one can be both teachable while fearlessly opinionated, that’s Rappstar. Here he opines on the Hawaiian Ironman.

The official last day for Eurobike is on Saturday but we are concluding our coverage of this 2011 trade show today with another gallery of products and people we came across.

In its 5th year, Hy-Vee’s commitment to the sport of triathlon, the respect it shows its elite athletes with its Million Dollar purse, make it as important as a world championship

We spent another day cruising through the numerous Eurobike halls and found more interesting gear to share. It is actually quite overwhelming here.

Over the last few years the German bike brand Canyon has stepped into the limelight and at Eurobike they introduced the Concept Speedmax TT bike.

The 2011 Eurobike show opened its doors inside the convention center in Friedrichshafen today and the halls were packed with visitors and interesting products.

Andreas and Michael Raelert are now both aboard a BMC Timemachine TM01 and we had the opportunity to look at one of these new rides a bit closer at the Eurobike show.