Triathlon presented by Herbalife

(Los Angeles) -- The Sunday, September 25 Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Triathlon presented by Herbalife is planning to welcome professional, elite and occasional athlete triathletes from 30 states, as well as the District of Columbia, and 11 nations. The professional area, with 15 males and 16 women, is among the greatest recently and also the pros will by competing for $40,000 in prize money positive factors within the Existence Time Fitness Triathlon Series Race towards the Toyota Cup. The L.A. race may be the sixth of seven occasions within the Race towards the Toyota Cup, including $584,000 in individual race honours along with a 2011 Toyota vehicle up male and female champions in the Toyota U.S. Open Triathlon in Dallas.

Olympian and three-time L.A. champion Greg Bennett is among the leaders from the men's area. Bennett is among the world's most decorated triathletes, is presently rated because the top U.S. athlete within the ITU World Titles ratings, and won the Race towards the Toyota Cup three consecutive years, 2006 through 2008. Bennett symbolized Australia within the 2004 Olympics, placing 4th. Since acquiring U.S. citizenship, he'll be attempting to make the U.S. triathlon team for that 2012 Olympic games working in london. Also within the search for any podium position is Filip Ospaly in the Czech Republic, Britain's Stuart Hayes and American Cameron Dye. Wins in L.A. by Ospaly and Dye gives them enough suggests transfer to position to win the Race towards the Toyota Cup. Ospaly may be the 2010 Lifetime Fitness Triathlon Series champion.

"This isn't a obvious-cut race," stated race director Jack Caress. "Any kind of the high four could win, and all sorts of is going to be highly motivated. With this particular as being a non-drafting event, I expect Stuart's go to be his weapon and Cameron is going to be strong around the bike."

Leading the women's area is going to be protecting Los Angeles champion Lisa Nordén, who definitely are opting for her third consecutive L.A. title. Nordén, from Sweden, won the Hy-Vee Triathlon on September 4 and it has a properly-balanced go swimming, bike and run attack. Also using the possibility to challenge Nordén and obtain a put on the podium are People in america Sara McLarty, Becky Lavelle and Laura Bennett, and Britain's Jodie Stimpson. Bennett, married to Greg Bennett, is really a U.S. Olympian who finished 4th in 2008, and it is this years U.S. National Champion. McLarty may be the 2010 Lifetime Fitness Triathlon Series champion, is probably the quickest swimmer within the area and it has done now this year in non-drafting occasions. Lavelle is really a two-time L.A. Champion (2003 and 2008) and Stimpson won the London Triathlon this summer time, among the biggest on the planet.

"This can be a very solid women's even though I think Lisa will win, it's definitely not confirmed,Inch ongoing Caress. "They are all great sports athletes and all sorts of have the possibility to become around the podium."

The professional area includes a 7:15 a.m. start time at Venice Beach, adopted immediately through the elite amateurs at 7:25 and the rest of the area at 7:30 in waves of 150 triathletes until all have joined water and began the race.

The course is really a point-to-point route that begins within the waters off Venice Beach and finishes in downtown Los Angeles at LA LIVE Nokia Plaza. The big event gained its status among the top destination triathlons in the united states due to the unequalled chance rivals have of seeing historic venues in the standpoint of the bike saddle or on the floor running. Rivals ride pass the Helms Bakery building, bike with the Fairfax District and Koreatown, run among downtown's soaring sky scrapers, beyond the famous Disney Concert Hall and STAPLES Center, and finish at LA LIVE! across from STAPLES Center.

Males (15)

Greg Bennett (USA) 3-time past champion, fourth Lifetime Fitness Triathlon Series Race towards the Toyota Cup pts.

James Burns (USA)

Fraser Cartmell (GBR/Scotland)

Mauro Cavanha (BRA)

Cameron Dye (USA), second Lifetime Fitness Triathlon Series Race towards the Toyota Cup pts.

Allen Gardner (USA)

Steven Hackett (AUS)

Stuart Hayes (GBR)

Serta McIntosh (USA)

Tim Reed (AUS)

John Rhodes (NZE)

Kerry Sullivan (USA)

Filip Ospaly (CZE), 3rd Lifetime Fitness Triathlon Series Race towards the Toyota Cup pts.

Matthew Pellow (AUS)

Andrew Yoder (USA), eighth Lifetime Fitness Triathlon Series Race towards the Toyota Cup pts.

Women (16)

Hollie Avil (GBR)

Laura Bennett (USA)

Julie (Swail) Ertel (USA)

Jenny Fletcher (CAN/USA)

Nicole Kelleher (USA), 3rd Lifetime Fitness Series Toyota Cup pts.

Louise Jackson (USA)

Becky Lavelle (USA), 2-time past champion, fifth Lifetime Fitness Series Toyota Cup pts.

Jennifer Luebke (USA)

Sara McLarty USA), sixth Lifetime Fitness Series Toyota Cup pts.

Lisa Nordén (SWE), current, and a pair of-time past champion

Jillian Billings (USA)

Christie Sim (AUS)

Lesley Cruz (USA)

Jodie Stimpson (GBR)

Magali Tisseyre (CAN)

Radka Vodickiova (CZE)