Triathlete physiques

It’s almost a different sport or is it? Grab some feet, find a group to ride with and then run as fast as you can – surging as necessary to increase the pressure on your rivals.

Height and weight for the top three women and men, as best I can determine using both Comm Games, Athens and ITU stats. Both height and weight seemed to fluctuate! However, it makes sense that Warriner is taller than both Snowsill and Hewitt and that those two appear to be about the same height.

As for the guys, unlike the Comm Games site, I was fairly confident in thinking that Docherty was taller than Robertson!

The numbers themselves don't mean a lot - there's no way to know how accurate they are and whether it is offseason or race day weight.

Any observer can tell by looking at these athletes that they are fit and lean -- even skinny. Keep in mind that these are the elite of the elite at the moment.

Keep eating healthy food in these weeks before your races. Don't do anything different with your nutrition at this stage, without at least checking with your coach, it's not worth putting all those hours of training at risk.

Snowsill – 1.61m, 48kg
Warriner – 1.69m, 60kg
Hewitt – 1.60, 53kg

Kahlefeldt – 1.83m, 67kg
Docherty – 1.87m, 71kg
Robertson – 1.72m, 60kg