The road to the Olympic Games is rarely straightforward, requiring great effort and great sacrifice. In order to support its athletes, World Triathlon has approved a support fund of $100,000USD to provide financial assistance to those athletes from National Federations with the greatest needs in order to help them compete at Continental and World level over the Olympic and Paralympic Qualification Period.
A total of 23 athletes and para
athletes from 11 different countries (Azerbaijan, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,
Ecuador, Morocco, Philippines, South Africa, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine) will
receive $3,000USD each to help them cover the expenses of travel to the
qualifying events. The remaining $31,000USD of the overall fund will be
allocated at the end of June and distributed among the same 23 athletes, but
considering the number and length of journeys that the athletes made over the
period.
“As an organization, we are committed
to supporting our athletes in every possible way. The pandemic has had a
massive impact not only on their access to training and competitions, but also
to travel and resources. Establishing these types of funds will be a big help
to some of them on their road to Tokyo. It is our duty to provide opportunities
to race and compete, but it is also our duty to work closely with National
Federations and the National Olympic and Paralympic Committees to identify the
specific needs of athletes and try to help and continue supporting them
throughout their road to the Olympics or Paralympics”, said World Triathlon
President and IOC member, Marisol Casado. “I would like to take the opportunity
to thank the Coaches Committee for the initiative and my fellow Executive Board
members for their unanimous support of this program”, she added.
World Triathlon received 28
applications for the funds from 14 different nationalities, most of them from
athletes currently competing at the maximum level to try to qualify for either
the Olympic or the Paralympic Games in Tokyo this summer. In order to receive
the funds, athletes needed to be registered and in good standing with their
National Federations and have shown the ability to race at a high standard in
Continental and World Triathlon level competitions.
A selection panel, drawn from the
Executive Board, carefully reviewed all the applications. This is the list of
successful candidates:
AZERBAIJAN Kseniia Levkovska
AZERBAIJAN Rostyslav Pevtsov
BRAZIL Ronan Nunes Cordeiro
BRAZIL Jessica Moreira Ferreira
BRAZIL Jorge Camargo Fonseca
BRAZIL Carlos Fonseca Viana
CHILE Diego Moya
CHILE Gaspar Riveros
CHILE Bárbara
Riveros
COLOMBIA Naiver Ome
COLOMBIA Carlos Javier Quinchara
Forero
COLOMBIA Lina Maria Raga Prieto
ECUADOR Elizabeth Bravo
MOROCCO Mehdi Essadiq
MOROCCO Badr Siwane
PHILIPPINES Marion Kim Mangrobang
SOUTH AFRICA Simone Ackermann
SOUTH AFRICA David Kenneth Jones
SOUTH AFRICA Gillian Caroline Sanders
TUNISIA Ons Lajili
TUNISIA Fethi Zouinkhi
TURKEY Uğurcan Özer
UKRAINE Yuliya Yelistratova
ABOUT WORLD TRIATHLON
World Triathlon is the international
governing body for the Olympic and Paralympic 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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