The 2009 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 to be held during the 2009 season. For 2009, five races were announced as part of the World Cup series. Each race was 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 ITU Triathlon World Championships

2009 ITU Triathlon World Championships

The Dextro Energy Triathlon – ITU World Championship Series 2009 is a series of seven World Championship Triathlon Events leading to a Grand Final being held in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia in September 2009...

 point totals; which was a change in format to the World Cup series of prior years. The number of world cup races in 2009 were reduced as the ITU shifted focus to the Championship Series.

Venues, dates and prize purses

Date	City	County	Prize purse (US$)
	Mooloolaba		80,000
	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...
	Des Moines		1,000,000
	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...		80,000
	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...		80,000

Mooloolaba

Place	Men			Women
	Name	Nation	Time	Name	Nation	Time
	Courtney Atkinson Courtney Atkinson Courtney Atkinson is a professional Australian triathlete born in Mackay, Queensland.Atkinson was a member of Australia's 2008 Olympic triathlon team where he finished 11th in men's triathlon...		1:52:05	Kirsten Sweetland Kirsten Sweetland Kirsten Sweetland is a professional Canadian triathlete, the Junior World Champion of the year 2006, and the 2010 U23 World Championship silver medalist....		2:02:00
	Kris Gemmell Kris Gemmell Kris Gemmell is a New Zealand triathlete, and aquathon World Champion winning the title in Cancún Mexico 2002...		1:52:17	Emma Moffatt Emma Moffatt Emma Moffatt is an Australian professional triathlete. She won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and won the gold at the ITU Triathlon World Championships in 2009 and 2010. She was born in Moree, New South Wales....		2:02:55
	Brad Kahlefeldt		1:52:51	Daniela Ryf Daniela Ryf Daniela Ryf is a Swiss triathlete who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics.In 2008, she finished seventh in the Olympic triathlon event. In 2010, Ryf placed third in the inaugural 2010 ITU Sprint Distance Triathlon World Championships....		2:03:03
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Ishigaki

Place	Men			Women
	Name	Nation	Time	Name	Nation	Time
	Courtney Atkinson Courtney Atkinson Courtney Atkinson is a professional Australian triathlete born in Mackay, Queensland.Atkinson was a member of Australia's 2008 Olympic triathlon team where he finished 11th in men's triathlon...		1:48:24	Juri Ide		2:03:32
	Ivan Vasiliev Ivan Vasiliev Ivan Vasiliev is a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet. Born in Vladivostok, he graduated from the Belorussian Ballet School and won first prize at the Moscow International Ballet Competition in 2005...		1:49:01	Kathy Tremblay Kathy Tremblay Kathy Tremblay is a professional Canadian triathlete and member of the National Team.Tremblay placed 29th in the 2008 Summer Olympics....		2:03:37
	Denis Vasiliev		1:49:22	Kiyomi Niwata Kiyomi Niwata Kiyomi Niwata is a professional triathlete from Japan, triple Olympian , multiple National Champion , Asian Aquathlon Champion and Oceanian Triathlon Champion of the year 2009, and one of the most seasoned triathletes ever.Kiyomi Niwata and Anja Dittmer are the only triathletes who took part in...		2:03:54
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Des Moines

Place	Men			Women
	Name	Nation	Time	Name	Nation	Time
	Simon Whitfield Simon Whitfield Simon St. Quentin Whitfield is an Olympic triathlon champion from Canada.-Biography:Whitfield was born in Kingston, Ontario. As a young boy he played soccer but at age 11 began triathlon, honing his early competitive skills in the Canadian Kids of Steel program. By age 15 he was pursuing...		1:49:43	Emma Moffatt Emma Moffatt Emma Moffatt is an Australian professional triathlete. She won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and won the gold at the ITU Triathlon World Championships in 2009 and 2010. She was born in Moree, New South Wales....		1:59:46
	Brad Kahlefeldt		1:49:44	Emma Snowsill Emma Snowsill Emma Laura Snowsill OAM is an Australian professional triathlete and multiple gold medalist in the World Championships and the Commonwealth Games...		2:01:19
	Jan Frodeno Jan Frodeno Jan Frodeno is a German triathlete. He won gold in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.Born in Cologne, Frodeno started out as a swimmer in South Africa at the age of 15, and he entered triathlon in 2000. He then went to Germany to compete in the Bundesliga, and qualified for the national team in...		1:49:44	Lauren Groves		2:01:31
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Tiszaújváros

Place	Men			Women
	Name	Nation	Time	Name	Nation	Time
	Dmitry Polyanski Dmitry Polyanski Dmitry Andreyevich Polyanski , is a professional Russian triathlete, 2009 U23 European Champion and permanent member of the National Elite Team....		1:48:46	Kate McIlroy Kate McIlroy Kate McIlroy is a New Zealand athlete. She won the World Mountain Running title in 2005 and was named New Zealand Sportswomen of the Year at the 2006 Halberg awards. McIlroy converted to track in a bid to compete at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but sustatined a leg injury and was unable recover in time...		2:00:48
	Alexander Brukhankov		1:48:55	Irina Abysova Irina Abysova Irina Alekseyevna Abysova, , was an internationally known Open Water swimmer before she turned to triathlon in 2002. In 2003, 2007, 2009 and 2010 she won the Russian Triathlon Championships and she took part in the Olympics 2008 in Beijing.In 2003 Abysova married the Russian triathlete and 2008...		2:00:52
	Ivan Tutukin		1:49:50	Felicity Sheedy-Ryan		2:01:24
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Huatulco

Place	Men			Women
	Name	Nation	Time	Name	Nation	Time
	Matt Chrabot		1:57:22	Ai Ueda Ai Ueda Ai Ueda is a Japanese triathlete, Asian Champion of the years 2005 and 2008, Japanese Champion of the year 2007 and Olympian triathlete.Ai Ueda's parents and her brother are kimono painters. Ai Ueda moved to Chiba after finishing high school to dedicate herself completely to triathlon...		2:12:47
	Ruedi Wild		1:59:32	Helle Frederiksen Helle Frederiksen Helle Frederiksen is a professional Danish triathlete and member of the National Team since 2006. In the ITU European Rankings of the year 2009 she is number 2, with the highest total number of races ....		2:13:12
	Jarrod Shoemaker Jarrod Shoemaker Jarrod Shoemaker is a professional triathlete based in Maynard, Massachusetts. He is the 2009 ITU Duathlon World Champion.- Athletic career :...		2:01:02	Jessica Harrison		2:13:29
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