Rio Hosts ITU Olympic Test Event This Weekend

Rio Hosts ITU Olympic Test Event This Weekend

The ITU hosts its test event for the Rio Olympic Games this weekend, with a number of New Zealand athletes and coaches present to test the venue and surrounding infrastructure as they plan towards a successful Olympic Games in 2016. While there are just the four New Zealanders racing this weekend, the coaching team are very much on a reconnaissance exercise as they look to plan the best way of approaching and executing the Kiwi involvement in Rio 2016.

New Zealanders taking part this weekend:
Elite Women: Andrea Hewitt, Simone Ackermann, Rebecca Clarke
Elite Men: Ryan Sissons

The schedule is as follows:
Elite Women Midnight Sunday NZT
Elite Men 3:30am Monday NZT

Link to fields CLICK HERE
Link to the latest Tri NZ HP Blog post from Rio, CLICK HERE
Visit www.triathlon.org for further information

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