2008 ITU Triathlon World Cup - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The 2008 ITU Triathlon World Cup was a series of triathlon

Triathlon

A triathlon is a multi-sport event involving the completion of three continuous and sequential endurance events. While many variations of the sport exist, triathlon, in its most popular form, involves swimming, cycling, and running in immediate succession over various distances...

races organised by the International Triathlon Union

International Triathlon Union

The International Triathlon Union or ITU is the international governing body for the multi-sport disciplines of triathlon, duathlon, aquathlon and other nonstandard variations...

(ITU) for elite-level triathletes. There were twelve races held in twelve countries, each held over a distance of 1500 m swim, 40 km cycle, 10 km run (an Olympic-distance triathlon). Alongside a prize purse, points were awarded at each race contributing towards the overall World Cup for which an additional prize purse was awarded. The 2008 World Cup was sponsored by BG Group

BG Group

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Venues, dates and prize purses

Date	City	County	Prize purse (US$)
	Mooloolaba
	New Plymouth New Plymouth New Plymouth is the major city of the Taranaki Region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after Plymouth, Devon, England, from where the first English settlers migrated....
	Ishigaki Ishigaki, Okinawa Ishigaki is an island west of Okinawa Hontō and the second-largest island of the Yaeyama Island group. It is within the City of Ishigaki in Okinawa Prefecture. The city functions as the business and transport center of the archipelago...
	Tongyeong Tongyeong Tongyeong is a coastal city in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. In 2010, it had an area of 238.81 ㎢ and a population of 139,869 people. It is divided into 1 eup , 6 myeon and 11 dong . Chungmu city and Tongyeong county were reunited in 1995, creating Tongyeong City as we know it today...
	Richards Bay
	Madrid Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
	Des Moines
–6	Hamburg Hamburg -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
	Tiszaújváros Tiszaújváros Tiszaújváros is an industrial town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary, south-east of Miskolc, near the river Tisza.Tiszaújváros owes its existence to the industrialization wave that took over the then-socialist Hungary after World War II...
	Kitzbühel Kitzbühel -Demographic evolution:-Personalities:Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre , entomologist and botanistAlfons Walde , expressionist painter and architect*Peter Aufschnaiter , mountaineer and geographer...
–28	Lorient Lorient Lorient, or L'Orient, is a commune and a seaport in the Morbihan department in Brittany in north-western France.-History:At the beginning of the 17th century, merchants who were trading with India had established warehouses in Port-Louis...
	Huatulco Huatulco Huatulco , centered on the town of La Crucecita, is a tourist development in Mexico. It is located on the Pacific coast in the state of Oaxaca. Huatulco's tourism industry is centered on its nine bays thus the name Bahias de Huatulco but has since been unofficially shortened to simply Huatulco...

Mooloolaba

Place	Men		Women
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
	\|1:49:50	\|2:00:44
	\|1:50:14	\|2:01:22
	\|1:50:23	\|2:01:22

New Plymouth

Place	Men		Women
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
	\|1:47:33	\|2:01:01
	\|1:48:03	\|2:01:07
	\|1:48:16	\|2:01:16

Ishigaki

Place	Men		Women
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
	\|1:51:12	\|2:03:10
	\|1:51:22	\|2:03:40
	\|1:51:32	\|2:05:23

Tongyeong

Place	Men		Women
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
	\|1:38:14	\|1:49:49
	\|1:38:22	\|1:49:59
	\|1:38:23	\|1:50:21

Richards Bay

Place	Men		Women
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
	\|1:52:49	\|2:03:32
	\|1:52:50	\|2:03:35
	\|1:52:50	\|2:03:41

Madrid

Place	Men		Women
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
	\|1:56:25	\|2:04:46
	\|1:56:44	\|2:05:49
	\|1:56:53	\|2:06:10

Des Moines

Place	Men		Women
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
	\|1:54:21	\|2:03:15
	\|1:54:29	\|2:04:35
	\|1:54:32	\|2:05:21

Hamburg

Place	Men		Women
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
	\|1:46:51	\|1:57:42
	\|1:46:58	\|1:58:25
	\|1:47:05	\|1:58:25

Tiszaújváros

Place	Men		Women
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
	\|1:51:31	\|2:02:47
	\|1:51:50	\|2:03:33
	\|1:52:15	\|2:04:06

Kitzbühel

Place	Men		Women
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
	\|1:45:23	\|1:57:28
	\|1:45:29	\|1:57:34
	\|1:45:30	\|1:58:04

Lorient

Place	Men		Women
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
	\|1:49:53	\|2:02:05
	\|1:51:01	\|2:02:39
	\|1:51:10	\|2:02:44

Huatulco

Place	Men		Women
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
	\|2:03:23	\|2:14:02
	\|2:03:32	\|2:14:45
	\|2:04:22	\|2:15:02

Overall rankings

At each race of the series points were awarded to the top 20 finishers per the table below. In addition to the points awarded for the twelve World Cup legs, double points were awarded for results achieved in the ITU Triathlon World Championship

ITU Triathlon World Championships

The ITU Triathlon World Championships have been held annually since 1989, the same year as the formation of the International Triathlon Union – the world governing body of triathlon...

race in Vancouver

Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

on 7–8 June 2008.

Finishing position	World Cup points
1	50
2	44
3	39
4	35
5	31
6	27
7	24
8	21
9	18
10	15
11	13
12	11
13	9
14	7
15	6
16	5
17	4
18	3
19	2
20	1

Men

Rank	Name	Points
1		300
2		246
3		214
4		169
5		159
6		156
7		155
8		140
9		136
10		135

Women

Rank	Name	Points
1		282
2		256
3		210
4		200
5		197
6		180
7		174
8		150
9=		131
9=		131

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Men			Women			Total
Rank	Nation							Total
1			3	1	4	5	1	14
2		1		4	1	2	3	11
3		1	3		2	1	2	9
4=		2	1	2	1			6
4=		5		1				6
6		1	1	1		1	1	5
7				1	1		2	4
8=					1	1	1	3
8=			2			1		3
10=		1			1			2
		1	1					2
					1	1		2
			1	1				2
14=							1	1
							1	1
				1				1

Note: Rank is arranged by total number of medals.

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Finishing position	World Cup points
1	50
2	44
3	39
4	35
5	31
6	27
7	24
8	21
9	18
10	15
11	13
12	11
13	9
14	7
15	6
16	5
17	4
18	3
19	2
20	1

Finishing position	World Cup points
1	50
2	44
3	39
4	35
5	31
6	27
7	24
8	21
9	18
10	15
11	13
12	11
13	9
14	7
15	6
16	5
17	4
18	3
19	2
20	1

Finishing position	World Cup points
1	50
2	44
3	39
4	35
5	31
6	27
7	24
8	21
9	18
10	15
11	13
12	11
13	9
14	7
15	6
16	5
17	4
18	3
19	2
20	1