Athlete Stories

One in a Million: Daniela Ryf's Legacy

At the 2018 Ironman World Championships, Daniela Ryf was stung by a jellyfish and left the water 10 minutes behind race leader, Lucy...

Siri Lindley: On Triathlon

This is an interview I’ve kept from her time as an athlete, which I believe expresses more eloquently than I could how she made it then as a

A great triathlon story - Le blanc takes maiden World Cup victory!

Racing in Pontevedra last weekend, Petra Kuříková from the Czech Republic ran her way to her first World Cup victory. What makes it such...

It's a dream come true!

I have waited for the media around recent races to quieten, as I want to congratulate Reinaldo Colucci on his remarkable win at Ironman...

São Carlos in our hearts

Last weekend our Viking Foundation Brazilian Team headed to an iconic distance race held in São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil. This location...

Swimming around the Buoys

1987 Perth World Championships (unofficial) While I would never consider myself a fast swimmer, I have always thought of myself as a...

What is good attitudes and facilities

A recent social media post by one of our new squad athletes whilst training in St.Moritz, prompted a couple of enquiries regarding...

Back to the future for coach!

Since this Olympic cycle has now finished I have been dedicating myself to a new project. The details will be made public very soon, as...

An apprentice no more!

Julie Derron, European Champion, 2021! This blog might be for our hard core Trisutto family. It's a story of success. It's a story that...

First impressions: Attitude counts

The discovery of Caroline Steffen! One of our team athletes had sent me a note about a training group on the Sunshine Coast. In that...

Welcome Coach Khadiga Amin!

Welcoming Coach Khadiga to the Trisutto Coaching Team. This blog is an important one - a middle eastern woman's success story. Family...

What Home Of Triathlon really means!

As many are starting to get Olympic fever, I am getting plenty of notes asking for my take, after the last series of ITU races. I thought...

Athletes like us!

This week we would like to highlight a special athlete who first joined us for a camp in 2017. JP had decided that his next sporting...

The best I can be

Today I'm proud to present another of the athletes training in my squad. Melanie's story has a twist, I'd say about three positive...

The beauty of triathlon

I'd like you to meet Ralf, who I'm particularly proud of. He is my go to guy when I need to give hope to athletes that really struggle. I...

An Inspiration for all!

This week a social media post by James Cunnama informed the tight knit triathlete community of his retirement from racing as he...

The long journey!

Mariana was one of the first age group athletes to join my private squad. We know her as SwissMex, not just for her heritage, but also...

Arnaud's story

It was a long bike day in winter in St Moritz and I prescribed a four hour ride, thinking all would do it indoors. But that night when I...

Big Nick - total body force!

At the pool this morning while i was getting depressed whether to respond to all the non-educated or misinformed, there was big Nick in...

Squad note that can help you!

Yobes Ondieki winning 5000m gold at the Tokyo World Champs, 1991 We send notes to our private athletes to help them to understand the...