{"id":12077,"date":"2021-07-27T20:05:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T20:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incirliseviye.com\/?p=12077"},"modified":"2021-07-27T20:05:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T20:05:12","slug":"revealed-challenge-bahrain-2014-pro-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=12077","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Challenge Bahrain 2014 pro field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p ><strong>There\u2019s just over a week to go until the first Challenge Bahrain, and the organisers have confirmed the full pro field who\u2019ll be racing for a slice of the whopping $500k prize fund.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p >Nearly 100 professional athletes will be lining up on 6 December, including both current Ironman world champions Sebastian Kienle and Mirinda Carfrae, and various Olympians and Commonwealth champs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p >There are three British men on the start line (Tim Don, Ritchie Nicholls and Fraser Cartmell) and three British women (Rachel Joyce, Jodie Swallow, and Jodie Stimpson on her middle-distance debut). The full pro start list can be found here.<\/p>\n<div    >\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There will also be more than 1,000 age-groupers racing next Saturday, with the course involving a fast flat point-to-point course that takes in a 1.9km swim, 90km bike and 21km run, all spread out over a point-to-point course that passes both ancient Mesopotamian sites and high-tech landmarks, and finishes at the F1 motor circuit (maps here).\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p >The organisers have introduced a 20m draft zone for the pro athletes, with 35secs passing time, as well as a separate start for the pro women, and a 30mins gap to the following age-grouper men.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The race gets underway at 7.30am local time (4.30am UK time) on Saturday 6 December, and live\u00a0online coverage will be broadcast on race day at\u00a0www.challenge-bahrain.com.bh.\u00a0<em>220<\/em>\u2019s Liz will be there in Bahrain to cover all the action for our website and\u00a0Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>(Main image: Paul Phillips)<\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Will you be racing Challenge Bahrain next weekend? Let us know in the comments below!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s just over a week to go until the first Challenge Bahrain, and the organisers have confirmed the full pro field who\u2019ll be racing for a slice of the whopping $500k prize fund. Advertisement Nearly 100 professional athletes will be lining up on 6 December, including both current Ironman world champions Sebastian Kienle and Mirinda &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=12077\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Revealed: Challenge Bahrain 2014 pro field&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}