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 […]
June 28, 2012 Pro triathlete Nikki Butterfield put her fitness to the test at Sunday’s Ironman 70.3 Syracuse, posting a 3rd place podium finish as part of her programmed build to the Ironman European Championship in Frankfurt, Germany on July 8th. The race was a valuable marker of the strength-endurance skill that Butterfield will rely […]
(June 13, 2012) Following a 3rd place finish at an unusually modified Ironman 70.3 Boise, pro triathlete Nikki Butterfield announced a slight change to her competition schedule in the coming weeks. Although originally planning to join husband Tyler in racing the Philadelphia Insurance Triathlon on June 24th, the title sponsor of which is one of […]
May 29, 2012 With the final race of the Olympic triathlon qualification series on Saturday, Bermuda’s Tyler Butterfield cemented his position as one of the world’s top short-course triathletes, confirming his place on the start line at London’s Summer Games. This will mark Butterfield’s second Olympic appearance; he also competed in 2004 in Athens where […]
