Wian Sullwald chats about his win at the ITU World Cup win in Chengdu, China

--:--
Wian Sullwald wins in ChengduIt was another superb weekend for South Africa’s Wian Sullwald. The 2012 ITU Junior World Champion followed up his 15th position at the inaugural World Triathlon Series event in Cape Town two weeks ago with a fantastic win at the 2014 Chengdu ITU World Cup on Saturday.We caught up with Wian, who is still in China preparing for the upcoming WTS Yokohama, following his victory. Wian spoke about the confidence he gained in that race in Cape Town despite his race unravelling with two and a half kilometres to go.Wian also spoke about how difficult he found it to make the step up from the junior level to the senior level and how 2013 was a really steep learning curve for him. Wian gives 3 fantastic tips to any youngster who may be thinking about turning professional and what they need to do to make the step up to the pro triathlon ranks.Brad asks Wian if he feels under pressure with the likes of Richard Murray and Henri Schoeman who already established on the world triathlon circuit. Wian also talks Brad through his plans for the rest of the season as well as his hopes and aspirations for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow as well as the Rio Olympic Games in 2016.If you would like to subscribe to our weekly podcast on iTunes you can click here or on the RSS feed by clicking here. You can also be in touch via email or following us on Twitter or Like Tri Talk SA on ...
13 May 2014 English South Africa Sports · Health & Fitness

Other recent episodes

Kate Roberts calls it a day on her triathlon career

This week on Tri Talk SA we catch up with one of the most loyal servants of South African Triathlon. Following her second place finish at the Ironman 5150 African Championships in Ekurhuleni two weeks ago two time Olympian and Commonwealth Games silver medalist Kate Roberts announced that she was…
12 Nov 2014 18 min

Olympian Gill Sanders, Rudolf Naude, Que Lebatha and Raynard Tissink

It has been a REALLY busy week at Talk SA HQ this week. We’ve made a few major changes behind the scenes and one really big one on the website. We have migrated across to Sound Cloud. If you download the podcast through iTunes this change won’t affect you at…
20 Sep 2013 39 min