{"id":20133,"date":"2024-05-21T14:30:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T14:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/uncategorized\/world-best-times-and-high-pto-points-at-the-championship-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T15:31:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T15:31:41","slug":"world-best-times-and-high-pto-points-at-the-championship-2024","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/news\/world-best-times-and-high-pto-points-at-the-championship-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"World Best Times and High PTO Points at The Championship 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frederic Funk (GER) has posted the world\u2019s fastest middle distance bike split over 90km at The Championship 2024 in \u0160amor\u00edn, Slovakia with a time of 1:48:48. This was enough to put him in second place on the podium behind Kyle Smith (NZL) who himself posted the world\u2019s second-fastest time ever over 113km of swim, bike, run in 3:27:10.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew before the race my bike shape is better than ever but I wouldn\u2019t have thought I could go that fast,&#8221; said Funk. &#8220;It\u2019s crazy how sub two hours was a big thing a few years ago and now I went sub 1:50h. Super happy with my performance despite it not being enough to win the race.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The high standard of competition at Challenge Family\u2019s flagship event resulted in many professionals flying up the PTO World Rankings. As a Gold Tier race with a points ranking of 95.61, the race delivered high points to the top performers.\u00a0 The biggest climber was Kristian H\u00f8genhaug (DEN) who went up 19 points into 23<sup>rd<\/sup>. Smith and Laura Madsen (DEN) both earned 17 points, putting them into 14<sup>th<\/sup> and 26<sup>th<\/sup> respectively while women\u2019s champion, India Lee (GBR) returned to the top 10 and Funk rose to 8<sup>th<\/sup>. Other notable climbers were third place Anna Bergsten (SWE) who climbed 13 places to 39<sup>th<\/sup> and Kaidi Kivioja (EST) who jumped nine spots into 24<sup>th.<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a qualification-only event, The Championship is now firmly embedded as a must-race event for professionals and age groupers alike, as they look to pit themselves against the best of the best Challenge Family athletes,\u201d said Challenge Family CEO, Jort Vlam. \u201cThis was embodied this year by the record attendance and high calibre field, all wanted to race at the iconic x-bionic sphere venue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For full results of The Championship 2024 visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datasport.de\/anmeldeservice\/thechampionshipsamorin2024\/ergebnisse\">https:\/\/www.datasport.de\/anmeldeservice\/thechampionshipsamorin2024\/ergebnisse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Qualification for The Championship 2025 is already underway at the Challenge Family \u2018s 35 races in 27 countries with race day set for 17-18 May 2025. For further information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thechampionship.de\">www.thechampionship.de<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frederic Funk (GER) has posted the world\u2019s fastest middle distance bike split over 90km at The Championship 2024 in \u0160amor\u00edn, Slovakia with a time of 1:48:48. This was enough to put him in second place on the podium behind Kyle Smith (NZL) who himself posted the world\u2019s second-fastest time ever over 113km of swim, bike, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":20134,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20133","news","type-news","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>World Best Times and High PTO Points at The Championship 2024 - Challenge Family<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/news\/world-best-times-and-high-pto-points-at-the-championship-2024\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World Best Times and High PTO Points at The Championship 2024 - Challenge Family\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Frederic Funk (GER) has posted the world\u2019s fastest middle distance bike split over 90km at The Championship 2024 in \u0160amor\u00edn, Slovakia with a time of 1:48:48. 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