Optima Racing Team

🇸🇮 European Junior Cup

Good luck to Zoe racing this Saturday at the junior European cup in Slovenia. This weekend brings a slightly different race format, with heats in the morning and finals later that evening.

World Champs Pontevedra 🇪🇸

Good Luck to all Optima athletes racing at World champs this week.

Junior Female Race - 24.09.2026
🇪🇸 —> 10:15 AM
🇬🇧 —> 9:15 AM

Junior Male Race - 24.09.2026
🇪🇸 —> 11:45 AM
🇬🇧 —> 10:45 AM

AG Olympic Distance - 26.09.2026
🇪🇸 —> 12:20 PM
🇬🇧 —> 11:20 PM

Racing Update 💥

A slightly delayed post, however the optima community has been very busy racing in the latter half of the season.

🇫🇷 - 70.3 World Champs Nice
Christina and put together two very strong performances at 70.3 worlds on a brutal course.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Bala + Ironman Wales
Over in Wales Chris Owens took part in an Olympic distance in Bala finishing 4th in his AG. Chris has written a race report which is available to read on our website (link in bio)

Lori Westcott completed the toughest Ironman in the world, she dug to deep and showed her full character with a solid race 💪

🇬🇧 - 70.3 Weymouth
Huge shoutout to Katherine Amps who only went and won 👏.

Part 2 to follow 🔜

https://www.optimaracingteam.com/latest-results-stories-1/shepperton-open-water-swim-series

Shepperton Open Water Swim Series — Optima Racing Thursday evening saw the Optima Racing Team head over to Shepperton Open Water Lake for the latest race in the Open Water Swim Series.

The young man is still going strong (a true inspiration)

Bala Triathlon: A Hamstring-Tested Road to the Worlds — Optima Racing Bala is a beautiful long valley in North Wales, with the town of Y Bala at the north end of a long narrow lake. This was the venue for the British Standard AG Championships. The organisers and BTF had scheduled multiple events, Sprint, Standard and Legends (70.3ish) distances, preceded by the last r

https://www.optimaracingteam.com/latest-results-stories-1/mallory-park-a-challenging-but-entertaining-day-out-for-the-team

Mallory Park: A challenging but entertaining day out for the team — Optima Racing We had the whole Optima Racing Team PE 1 crew out at a wet and windy Mallory Park Race Track this weekend for a day of racing. A challenging but entertaining day out for the team, with plenty of positives to take away and lots learned from the racing.

https://www.optimaracingteam.com/latest-results-stories-1/optima-ironman-weekend

Optima Ironman weekend — Optima Racing What a weekend for the London based Optima Racing Team, with three big Ironman efforts and some special performances. Ironman Leeds and Ironman Kalmar race report.

Ironman Weekend 💥

Alan took on Ironman Leeds. Unfortunately, the swim was cancelled, however, he finished strong especially after 10 weeks no running due to injury. Alan was racing for a fantastic cause, raising money for Lowther School in Barns and smashed his fundraising target 💪. The link to donate is still open.

Over in Kalmar, Sweden 🇸🇪, Steve and Kirill both took on the Ironman and smashed the sub-10-hour barrier!

Huge congratulations Steve, Kirill & Alan! 👏🔥

Race week 💥

🇸🇪 —> Stephen Woodford, Kirill Kondrasin, Chloe Dooley
🇬🇧 —> Alan Parry

Good luck to all our athletes racing over the Ironman distance this weekend in Kalmar and Leeds. 💪💪

Shoutout to .mythen and Kitty Scott, both youths racing for GB at Junior Europeans tomorrow in Poland.

Junior Female race —> 9:00 AM 🇬🇧 / 10:00AM 🇵🇱
Junior Male race —> 11:30 AM 🇬🇧 / 12:30 PM 🇵🇱

Best of luck to all GB athletes racing