Universal Sports Network, a premier multi-platform media destination for Olympic-related sports programming in the United States, will broadcast more than 38 hours of the 2015 ITU World Triathlon Series (WTS), beginning with the season opener in Abu Dhabi on Saturday 7 March at 19:00 ET.
The ITU World Triathlon Series is the sport’s premier global series that allows the world’s best athletes to compete head-to-head throughout the year.
Abu Dhabi kicks off the ten-event series and marks the first time the WTS has touched down in the Middle East. To close out the season, Chicago will host the 2015 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final and World Championships, which will air live on Universal Sports Network on 18-19 September.
Athletes to watch this season include USA Triathlon’s Gwen Jorgensen (St. Paul, Minnesota), who in 2014 became the most successful female in WTS history with a total of eight career series wins. Another overall title would make her just the second woman to win two WTS World Championship crowns. Teammate Sarah Groff True (Hanover, New Hampshire), who finished second overall in 2014, also returns and is looking to make the Grand Final podium on home soil.
In the men’s field, Spain’s Javier Gomez Noya matched Simon Lessing’s record of four World Championship titles in 2014 and has the chance to re-write history in 2015, if he can become the first man to earn five World Championships. Standing in his way are perennial rivals Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee of Great Britain.
Universal Sports Network and the International Triathlon Union (ITU) have a multi-year rights partnership to air global triathlon events in the United States, which includes the ITU’s World Triathlon Series and its monthly magazine programme.
Universal Sports Network, a partnership between NBC Sports and InterMedia Partners, offers more than 1,200 hours of original programming each year. Universal Sports has exclusive rights to world and national championship events in a wide array of sports, including swimming, track and field, gymnastics, cycling, skiing, figure skating and rugby.
