Billed as ‘the world’s greatest triathlon’, a short promo video has been released to highlight the action at this year’s DATEV Challenge Roth in Bavaria, Germany, which took place on Sunday 17 July.
As well as celebrating the 15th anniversary of the race, this year’s event was also a golden one, as Jan Frodeno delivered a world record performance over the 226km distance. Frodeno’s time of 7:35:39 in July undercut Andreas Raelert’s former record of 7:41:33 by almost six minutes on the same course. Daniela Ryf of Switzerland took the women’s title at her first Challenge Roth with the third fastest women’s time ever achieved over triathlon’s long distance.
The fast times achieved by the pros in recent years have certainly helped to boost media attention on DATEV Challenge Roth. The course has been the home of a number of past long-distance tri world records. (Chrissie Wellington lowered the world record time on all three occasions, 2009–2011, she raced Challenge Roth in Germany.)
In addition to fast times, Challenge Roth has built scale. This year, the organising team at Challenge Family have highlighted strong growth in participation at Roth from emerging triathlon nations, but also from well established markets such as the USA and New Zealand.
In addition to a mass of participating athletes, the event has a significant amount of spectator support and one of the world’s largest event expos, which extends around the DATEV Challenge Roth finisher stadium.
Next year’s DATEV Challenge Roth takes place on 9 July 2017. Online registration for next year’s event opened on Monday 25 July 2016, at 10:00 CET.
