Photo Gallery: 2018 USA Triathlon Duathlon National Championships
More than 850 athletes from all 50 states and Washington, D.C, competed at the 2018 USA Triathlon Duathlon National Championships in Greenville, South Carolina, from April 7-8. Racing kicked off Saturday at Lakeside Park with the Draft-Legal Sprint Duathlon National Championships, in which Todd Buckingham (Big Rapids, Mich.) and Makena Gates (Canton, Ga.) were crowned overall national champions.
The action continued Sunday with the Non-Drafting Standard and Non-Drafting Sprint National Championships. Alex Arman (Boulder, Colo.) and Aimee Phillippi-Taylor (Glenville, Pa.) took top honors in the standard distance, while Taylor Huseman (Milford, Iowa) and Cassidy Hickey (Parker, Colo.) earned overall national titles in the non-drafting sprint.
Click here for a recap of the draft-legal sprint, and here for a recap of the non-drafting races. More information and complete results from the 2018 USA Triathlon Duathlon National Championships is available at usatriathlon.org/du2018. The USA Triathlon Duathlon National Championships will return to Greenville in 2019.
Photos by Steve Wallace/Creative Concepts Photography