The 2023 World Triathlon Sprint & Relay Championships will take place in Hamburg, Germany as World Triathlon, the German Triathlon Union and the city of Hamburg announced in a joint press conference today.
Andy Grote, Senator for the Interior
and Sport, said: “In the past almost 20 years, the Hamburg Wasser World
Triathlon has developed into a lighthouse event with international radiance. We
have proven the high significance the triathlon has for the city of Hamburg by
staging the elite races under COVID conditions last year, which received
worldwide attention. We hold that status high and even top that by hosting the
2023 World Championships. We are very much looking forward to welcoming the
best athletes from around the world, young and old, to the big showdown in the
Active City.”
Marisol Casado, World Triathlon
President and IOC Member, said: “The experience that Hamburg has organizing mayor
triathlon events is unique. Hamburg has been one of the most special cities in
our circuit. The spectators, the city, everything in Hamburg is just great. The
athletes love it, the fans love it, the city has always been so welcoming for
all of us, and Hamburg has an special link with the Mixed Relay. Some of our
most successful events ever in our history have been here, and we can’t be
happier of coming back to Hamburg.”
For Martin Engelhardt, President of
DTU, “I am proud that the joint bid with the city of Hamburg to stage the 2023
World Triathlon Sprint & Relay Championships has been successful. It is
foremost an award for the Active City Hamburg, that has proven in the past to
be an outstanding and reliable host. Especially the Hamburg spectators – known
for their sport enthusiasm around the world – create an atmosphere that pushes
the athletes to showcase their best performance. It will be very special for
the German athletes – juniors, elite and age groupers – to compete in front of
a home crowd in 2023.“
At the 2023 World Triathlon Sprint
& Relay Championships medals are awarded in nine events. Elite athletes
will compete in the eliminator format, which consists of super sprint races
with heats, semifinals and a final, and in the mixed relay world championships.
Juniors and age groupers will compete over the sprint distance as well as in
the mixed relay for world championship titles.
In addition it was announced that the
DTU is the new contractual partner of World Triathlon and the city of Hamburg for
the World Triathlon Championship Series in Hamburg. “Within World Triathlon we
have made the strategic decision two years ago that we want to cooperate more
closely with the national federations, especially when it comes to these
important races. We want to give them the responsibility to guarantee the
standards that World Triathlon wants to implement. Our goal is also to
strengthen the national federations and thus strengthen the structures of World
Triathlon,“ says Casado.
Engelhardt adds: “World Triathlon has
approached us with the wish to get more involved with the race in Hamburg.
After some internal discussions we decided relatively quickly that we want take
up that responsibility. Oliver Schiek and his team will still be in charge of
staging the races as they have done in the past. They have been very successful
and have always delivered high quality events.”
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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