Welcome to episode 431 of That Triathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

I'm your host Michael, and on today's episode, I interview Christoph Belestra.

This is a fascinating conversation about Christoph's work behind the scenes in the triathlon world,

with his most well-known product being OBSTry.com, the obsessed traef fleet, which is or was a stats page,

complete with amateur and professional results from Ironman branded races.

Sadly, it had to be shut down, and we will discuss the details of that story in the interview.

But Christoph is also the man behind the PTO's own status pages, which you will almost definitely

be familiar with if you are into looking up start lists and results of professional long-course

races from the T-100 series, from Iron Man and Challenge and other events that are eligible

for points towards the PTO rankings.

And he's also the man behind fantasy triathlon, which was originally hosted on OBS Tri, but is now hosted on the Daily Try.

So we have a lot of interesting stories to get into here in the world of triathlon, technology and stats, and I hope to do enjoy this conversation.

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