September 28, 2012 Tyler Butterfield raced to a solid second place in Sunday’s 5150 Galveston triathlon. The event marked his return to the non-drafting race format, following a year spent solely focused on ITU draft‐legal racing and highlighted by his second Olympic Games. Butterfield lead the second pack out of the swim, exiting the water […]
September 20, 2012 Professional triathletes Tyler and Nikki Butterfield have announced a shift in direction to both athletes’ competition plans. Tyler will turn his focus from ITU racing to the non-‐ drafting race format, while Nikki will sit out the 2013 season in hopes of having a second child. Tyler recently competed in the highlight […]
August 27, 2012 Professional triathlete Nikki Butterfield today confirmed that she would not compete in either the Hy-‐Vee 5150 U.S. Championship in Des Moines, Iowa or the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Las Vegas, Nevada. She cited a lack of adequate preparation due to injury and travel as the reason for her withdrawal from the […]
August 22, 2012 Following more than a year’s build-‐up of training and globe-‐trotting in search of hard-‐earned ITU qualifying points, on August 7th, 2012 Tyler Butterfield lined up against 55 of the top short-‐course triathletes on the planet to contest for Olympic gold. With the support of a dozen family members and numerous other family […]
July 19, 2012 Triathlete Nikki Butterfield has refocused her 2012 race plans on the heels of Ironman Frankfurt and Ironman Switzerland. Butterfield intends to shift her efforts to short course events as well as the Ironman 70.3 World Championship on September 9th. Butterfield had hoped to qualify for October’s Ironman World Championship in Kona with […]
