The 1988 America’s Paradise Triathlon
I’m working on a podcast with @oldtriathlonstuff about the 1991 St Croix Triathlon. The first ever race in the new ITU World Cup Series.
There’ll be Virgin Islands facts, ITU history, video analysis, kit and equipment reviews and plenty of laughs. Coming soon!
The race was first organised in 1988. And called The America’s Paradise Triathlon. The distances were 3km / 95Km / 20 km. I love that!
St. Croix was one of a few new big money events drawing the best athletes in 1987 and 1988. With Bermuda, Perth and the Gold Coast World Cup Triathlon. Of course. Nice and Hawaii were already established.
The St. Croix event has an interesting history after 1988. But you’ll have to wait for the podcast to hear all about that.
Three 1988 race reports are below. So I won’t go through everything that happened. Kirsten Hanseen and Mike Pigg won. Pigg would eventually win the race four times. Karen Smyers would win five!
British athlete Sarah Coope was 9th. And Glenn Cook was there too. But he punctured. Below. Pushing his bike. In the Le Coq Sportif vest!
