Patrick Lange wins in Kona following Laura Phillip’s victory in Good in September, bringing a uncommon double and additional proof of the dominance of the main long-distance triathlon bike.
Following Patrick Lange’s victory in Kona on Saturday twenty sixth October, Canyon can declare a rare double victory. Its Speedmax CFR bike took each the boys’s and girls’s titles on the 2024 Triathlon World Championships.
This landmark success underscores the Speedmax CFR’s unmatched aerodynamics, rider-focused engineering, and race-day reliability.
2024 marks Patrick Lange’s third Ironman world title, coming after his victories in 2017 and 2018, reaching a brand new course file within the course of. His victory in Kona got here following an astonishing efficiency on the run, overhauling the 9-minute hole to fellow Canyon athlete Sam Laidlow. Nevertheless, it was Sam Laidlow who additionally left jaws dropping by being the primary man to go underneath 4 hours on the 112-mile journey, setting a time of three:57:22 on the Speedmax CFR.
Profitable engineering
Each Laidlow and Lange, in addition to Laura Phillip on her successful journey in Good, had been utilizing Canyon’s so-far pro-only Speedmax CFR monocoque cockpit design, which has been configured to get athletes into the quickest and most snug place doable, providing vital time-saving benefits.
The professional-driven growth course of for the Speedmax started in 2015, engineered in partnership with main athletes akin to multi-time Ironman World Champion Jan Frodeno and aerodynamics specialists Swiss Facet, and refined by hours of wind tunnel evaluation and CFD simulations. This led to a Speedmax CFR body sculpted for minimal drag, whereas its built-in hydration and storage options supplied athletes entry to vitamin with out including further drag, setting a benchmark in triathlon, and laying the muse for a number of world championship titles.
As Canyon celebrates this newest triumph, the Speedmax CFR continues to set the usual in triathlon racing, successful all however two of the boys’s Ironman World Championship titles stretching again to 2015.
“Canyon’s new Speedmax CFR cockpit is one other instance of Canyon’s funding into the best requirements of efficiency, working with elite athletes to push the boundaries of cutting-edge bike design. It’s indicative of every part we’re working in direction of in triathlon, specializing in highest requirements of design and high quality to take materials efficiency and athlete achievement to the following stage,” mentioned Canyon lead R&D engineer Lukas Schuchnigg.
Followers wait to get their fingers on the brand new cockpit
The present Speedmax CFR design with its modular carbon cockpit and width and top adjustability out-of-the-box is on the market completely at Canyon.com or by way of the Canyon App. There is no such thing as a official announcement but on when followers will have the ability to get their fingers on the brand new cockpit design, though it’s all the time Canyon’s intention to convey CFR merchandise to client ranges.
