High Performance

2010 National Team

Building on one of the most successful seasons for Canada’s senior-level athletes, Triathlon Canada named a stellar line up of 12 athletes that will don the maple leaf while competing in World Championship Series and development level races around the world.

Two-time Olympic medallist, Simon Whitfield, will lead a total of three Canadian men and four women that will make up Team Teck at World Championship Series events in 2010. The Victoria native, whose 2009 campaign was highlighted with a victory at the prestigious ITU Triathlon Elite Cup in Des Moines, Iowa, will be joined in men’s races by fellow Victoria resident Brent McMahon, who finished 18th in the 2009 Grand Final and Kyle Jones, of Oakville, Ont., who had a ninth-place finish at the Ishigaki World Cup to go along with this 25th-place finish at the Grand Final

Canada will field a stellar line-up of elite women who all mounted the international podium in 2009. Vancouver’s Lauren Groves, who captured her first World Cup podium in Des Moines, Iowa, will lead the four Canucks. Groves will be joined by Montreal’s Kathy Tremblay who won a World Cup silver medal en route to finishing 13th overall on the World Championship Series. Victoria’s Kirsten Sweetland, who posted two top-eight finishes on the World Championship Series along with a World Cup victory in Australia, will return for her fourth season on the elite team. Edmonton’s Paula Findlay, who won a bronze medal at the Under-23 World Championships, rounds out the women’s squad.