Triathlete, UA grad Kanute headed to Rio for Olympics
If you know who to look for, you’ll see Ben Kanute swimming the dawn shift at Hillenbrand Aquatic Center, pedaling furiously on the Rillito Bike Path and running some off-the-beaten-path trails in the Tucson Mountains. It all paid off for the 2014 UA grad on Saturday: By finishing 17th at the ITU World Triathlon in Yokohama, Japan, Kanute made the three-man 2016 USA Olympic team for Rio. Kanute, whose first competition this year was the Oro Valley Bicycle Omnium, trains with the UA TriCats, the school’s club triathlon organization.
