At the ITU World Long Distance Championships in Almere (now thankfully back at its proper 'Nice-style' distance of 4k 120k 30k), Julien Loy (FRA) took the championship with a 5:43:22 while Chrissie Wellington decimated the women's field and is now the undisputed long distance queen with a 6:12:44 (17th overall). Chrissie looked completely relaxed on the run, taking time out to 'high five' other GB athletes and spectators and, after crossing the finish line once, still found time to go back and do the 'Blazeman roll'. That's five wins from five major races for Chrissie but in her post-race interview she said that she was "surprised to win against the strong competition". The evidence suggests that the other athletes were pretty much resigned to the outcome and had no expectations of getting the win once she was into her stride on the bike (mixed metaphors, but you know what we mean...) She also said that she felt the race was good preparation for Hawaii and that's something we are all looking forward to in six weeks time. It's also possible that she's the first athlete to hold the two long distance crowns concurrently - the only other athlete we can think of who won Hawaii and the Worlds in the same year was Karen Smyers but her ITU title was over the standard distance.

In the age group championships, the first of the British contingent was Dion Harrison who picked up Gold in the 25-29 category with Alex Fairman getting Bronze in the 20-24 category. Also in the medals were David Lewington with Bronze in the 70-74 category and Julie Payne who picked up Silver in the 30-34 category. A set of unofficial results by age category can be found here, we'll load a copy as soon as they are confirmed.

Reports from the venue indicate that either there was a bit of a current in the swim or the course was a bit long as the times seem a bit longer than expected. We've been enjoying the live coverage on the Dutch Triathlon website all morning and, even in a language we can't understand, it puts a lot of other event live coverage to shame. Plus, it's nice and warm and sunny out there while the view from the office window here has been of grey wet murk all day...

If would hardly count as being a weekend if there weren't some sort of Ironman race going on somewhere in the world and this weekend it was the turn of Ironman Louisville where the high temperatures saw some exciting action. Those expecting a repeat of last year were in for a bit of a shock as Maximillian Longree (GER) romped away with the win leaving last year's winner, Chris McDonald (AUS) to settle for second place some 21 minutes behind. Looks like we've got some Google research to do because we haven't had Longree on the radar before... Reports on Ironman Live have Andrew Johns leading out of the water and for the first 60 miles of the bike but he seems to have faded badly early on in the run and may have dropped out altogether while his partner, Lisbeth Kristensen was driving the women's race for much of the day but was overhauled in the closing stages of the run and had to settle for third. Not bad for a new mum scarcely back in training! Get all the details on IronmanLive.

Winding the clock swiftly back 24 hours to Saturday and the domestic scene, the Kirkwall Middle Distance Triathlon was won by Team Angus Pedan (Orkney Tri) in 4:45:41 but the fastest solo effort was by Jake Vellacott (Fleet Feet Tri) in 5:00:21. The fastest, oldest and only woman was Susan Gray (Ayrodynamic) in 5:55:23. Full results are here.

Also on Saturday, although news only reached us 24 hours later, was XTERRA Japan which, just a week after Julie Dibens cleaned up in Austria, saw Sam Gardner winning his first XTERRA World Tour race. The site's all in Japanese so we are struggling with the translation but you can check it out here.

Tri247's Editor was up at one of his favourite races on Sunday morning, the Rugby Sprint, and sent in a text to let us know that the winners were Hywel Davies in 0:54:13 and Rowena Nuenhoffer in 1:03:01 with Colette O'Neill taking the second female slot and the first female veteran. Fastest team in the relay event was captained by Paul Harwood and they finished in 1:08:12. Full results are on Stuart Steele's StuWeb site.

At the Woking Aquathlon the winners were Ben Smith in 22:43 and Elley Bradshaw in 31:54, full results are here. The organisers also put on a junior race and the results for that are here.

We are not sure what happened at the Blithfield Triathlon organised by Punishing Events but it seems to have become an aquathlon! Until we get a definitive answer we'll assume that the results are provisional... The 'standard distance' race was won by Andy Tarry (2XU TFN RT) in 48:05 and Nicola King (Tri Preston) in 1:01:35 while the 'sprint distance' race was won by David Bishop (2XU TFN RT) in 25:03 and Caroline Sutton (Derby Tri) in 30:08. Results are available on the organiser's site and we'll load a local copy once we have confirmed what happened.

The Borders Sport and Leisure Trust sneaked in the Gytes Duathlon at Peebles as part of their summer-long series of races while we weren't looking. Winners here were Iain Grant in 1:07:07 and Alison Rowan in 1:15:21. A full set of results is here.

At the Emily Prosser Sprint Triathlon organised by Cardiff Triathletes the winners were Richard Wilder in 0:49:20 and Jessica Parry-Williams in 0:58:07. A full set of results is here.

At the Llanwst Triathlon the overall winner, and by nearly two minutes, was Rhian Roxburgh (Carneddau Tri) who completed the sprint distance in 1:06:37. First man, and second placed overall, was Paul Williams (Wrexham Tri) in 1:08:25. A full set of results can be found here.

The Teesdale Triathlon was actually cancelled back in August - someone forgot to tell us! Also cancelled, this time through lack of numbers rather than issues relating to the bike course, was the Scottish Aquathlon Championships.

No news from the World Firefighters Games about their triathlon at Rivington but they do have a very swanky website for the whole week of events and there's a dedicated results page here.

Also awaiting results are the EnduranceLife off-road event in the Isle of Purbeck, Fun2Tri's South Coast Triathlon (although their results normally don't appear until Monday - check here) or the Fareham Kids Aquathlon.