Eagle-Vail’s Sullivan Middaugh, the two-time defending XTERRA USA champion, collected his first-career Continental Cup win earlier this month. The 20-year-old won the 2024 Americas Triathlon Cup in Calima, Columbia on May 5th. Middaugh completed the.
After winning his first XTERRA USA title last summer, Sullivan Middaugh’s encore performance Saturday proved the 19-year-old Vail product can hang with the world’s very best off-road triathletes especially when the competition is in.
Thirty-five Eagle County triathletes, including the defending U.S. champions Sullivan Middaugh and Suzie Snyder, will dive into Nottingham Lake Saturday morning as XTERRA Beaver Creek competitors. The sprint (750-meter swim, 14-kilometer bike, 5-kilometer run) begins.
Hollywood couldn’t have scripted a better XTERRA pro debut for Sullivan Middaugh. The EagleVail born-and-raised Battle Mountain alumnus sprinting through Beaver Creek’s fan-lined corridors last July en route to taking the XTERRA USA title torch.
The father-son duo of Josiah and Sullivan Middaugh each earned top-10 performances in both the long and short-course events at XTERRA Oak Mountain last Saturday and Sunday. The Pelham, Alabama, event was the second stop.