From Inside Triathlon...
"It will be the biggest payday in the history of triathlon. Life Time Fitness CEO Bahram Akradi announced Tuesday that the second Life Time Fitness non-drafting sprint triathlon would earn the winner a cool quarter-million.
At a Minneapolis press conference attended by the mayor and Minnesota's Governor, as well as elite triathletes Craig Walton and Becky Gibbs, Akradi promised that the winner of the gender-handicapped, battle-of-the-sexes format sprint triathlon - to be broadcast the race "as live" on NBC on August 2, 2003 - would win a check for $250,000 - and the entire field would be competing for a total of $500,000.
Second through fifth place overall in the gender handicap division would be allocated as follows: Second place would receive $50,000, third $35,000, fourth $25,000 and fifth $20,000. The remaining $120,000 of the prize purse would be allocated to the remaining top finishers in separate men's and women's categories."
Thoughts? Curious about how other race directors view the move.
Matt
"It will be the biggest payday in the history of triathlon. Life Time Fitness CEO Bahram Akradi announced Tuesday that the second Life Time Fitness non-drafting sprint triathlon would earn the winner a cool quarter-million.
At a Minneapolis press conference attended by the mayor and Minnesota's Governor, as well as elite triathletes Craig Walton and Becky Gibbs, Akradi promised that the winner of the gender-handicapped, battle-of-the-sexes format sprint triathlon - to be broadcast the race "as live" on NBC on August 2, 2003 - would win a check for $250,000 - and the entire field would be competing for a total of $500,000.
Second through fifth place overall in the gender handicap division would be allocated as follows: Second place would receive $50,000, third $35,000, fourth $25,000 and fifth $20,000. The remaining $120,000 of the prize purse would be allocated to the remaining top finishers in separate men's and women's categories."
Thoughts? Curious about how other race directors view the move.
Matt