Western Australian Felicity Sheedy-Ryan has won Australia’s first gold medal of the ITU Multi-Sport World Championships in Penticton, Canada today after a brave and at times scary solo effort on the bike sealed her second Duathlon world crown.

The 2017 Penticton ITU Multisport World Championships kicked off on Friday 18 August with 3,000 athletes from across the globe have arrived in Penticton, Canada to compete in five different World Champion Multisport events over the course of 10 days.

Triathlon’s top talent will come together in Chattanooga, Tennessee for the 2017 IRONMAN® 70.3® World Championship taking place on September 9 and 10

This is a triathlon marriage born in Busselton – and as it turned out for John Domandl and Paul McGlynn – it was in fact triathlon heaven.