#tri-suits

Sleeved suits weren’t widely popularised until this decade, with long-course athletes in particular adopting them for their drag-reducing benefits. If you’re not fussed by marginal gains, increased sun protection through better coverage is a more practical reason for age-groupers. And sleeved suits have now caught on over all race distances, buoyed further by the ITU allowing them to be used in competition in 2016. So, they’re more aero, look cooler and you can use them in pretty much any race… so why would anyone still go sleeveless?