The sports programme for the European Games Krakow-Malopolska 2023 continues to grow with the inclusion today of triathlon. Our sport will return to the European Games fold in 2023 for the second time, after featuring at the first edition in Baku in 2015.
“It is great for our sport and for
our organization to be included again in the programme of the European Games”,
said World Triathlon President and IOC member, Marisol Casado. “And adding a
third medal event, the Mixed Relay, proves that our sport presence is growing,
especially in Europe. Providing the top European athletes another major event
to compete at is always great news, that I am absolutely convinced that our
community, the fans and spectators will love”, she said.
World Triathlon European Continental
President Renato Bertrandi, said: “It is with great pleasure that we can
confirm that triathlon will be part of the European Games that will take place
in Poland in 2023,” Bertrandi said. “Triathlon was part of the first edition of
the Games back in 2015 where we successfully staged our race over the standard
(Olympic) distance. In 2023 we will be in the European Games with two races:
the individual one based on the standard distance, 1500 Swim, 40km Cycle and
10k Run, and the Mixed Relay. This is a new exciting, fast and furious format
that will provide a second medal opportunity to our discipline of triathlon for
the first time in Tokyo 2020.
“I am sure that our best athletes
will love to be part of the European Games in 2023 and I am confident that it
will be seen as a not-to-be-missed event every four years.”
The European Games are the
continent’s premier multisport event for elite athletes and are held every four
years. The European Games Kraków-Małopolska 2023 are set to include roughly two
dozen Olympic and non-Olympic sports. Sport climbing and triathlon join
archery, badminton, beach handball, boxing, canoe, karate, modern pentathlon,
muaythai, shooting and taekwondo on the 2023 programme, with more sports set to
follow in the coming weeks.
ABOUT WORLD TRIATHLON
World Triathlon is the international
governing body for the Olympic sport of triathlon and all related multisport
disciplines around the world, including duathlon, aquathlon, cross triathlon
and winter triathlon. Triathlon made its Olympic debut in Sydney 2000, with a
third medal event, the Mixed Team Relay, added to the programme at Tokyo 2020,
while paratriathlon was first added to the Paralympic programme at Rio 2016.
World Triathlon is proudly committed to the development of the sport worldwide,
with inclusion, equality, sustainability and transparency at our core as we
seek to help triathletes at all levels of the sport to be extraordinary.
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