World Triathlon established the Award of Excellence in 2021, to identify and recognise women or organisations that have made outstanding contributions to the involvement of women and girls in the sport, at a grassroots level. This year, World Triathlon selected and presented Lotta Johansson, from the Swedish Triathlon Federation, with the Award of Excellence award. The 2021 Award of Excellence was presented to Lotta, during a virtual edition of the World Triathlon Congress, on Sunday 25 October.
This year there were seven powerful
submissions to review, featuring incredible women all around the world. The
World Triathlon Women's Committee alongside a panel of external experts,
reviewed the submissions and confirmed Lotta Johansson as the 2021 Award of
Excellence recipient.
Lotta Johansson, of Sweden, has more
than 25 years of experience, working in the sport of Triathlon. Lotta has been
the driver of recruiting, educating and supporting men and women into
leadership roles, within the Swedish Triathlon Federation, as referees,
technical officials and technical delegates but also other areas within our
sport. She was one of the first women race director in Sweden in the mid
1990´s. Lotta also that she built the Technical Official programme in Sweden
and continues to develop it as of today.
Lotta, who currently works as an
Administrative Assistant for the Swedish Triathlon Federation, was delighted
and thrilled to receive the Award of Excellence from World Triathlon.
The 2021 Award of Excellence
recipient has a strong list of achievements associated with her incredible
efforts across the sport of Triathlon including Best Female Athlete in High
School in 1987, Race Director of the Year from the Swedish Triathlon Federation
in 2001, Volunteer of the Tear from Sweden Triathlon in 2004 and the Anders
Nilsson Scholarship in 2005.
Marisol Casado, President of World
Triathlon and IOC Member, along with Tomoko Wada, Chair of the World Triathlon
Women’s Committee, congratulated, commended and acknowledged Lotta Johansson’s
dedication to the sport and presented her with the prestigious 2021 Award of
Excellence.
In the submission from the Swedish
Triathlon Federation, Lotta’s colleagues described her as a wonderful leader of
the Swedish Triathlon and a role model who supports women in triathlon and
someone who continues to develop the sport in and around Sweden.
“Lotta is always there to help and
encourage other, especially women. She is a wonderful leader and representative
of Swedish Triathlon and has inspired many to follow her footsteps as race
director and technical official, but also her work to make our triathlon family
even better. Furthermore, Lotta is well-known also outside of Sweden,” said the
Swedish Triathlon Federation.
“She has a broad network within the
World Triathlon Technical official group and is an appreciated colleague
wherever she works. She is a wonderful colleague and not to forget, a reliable
and caring person towards the athletes (men and women), always ready to answer
any question in a friendly but correct way. Lotta is the most positive role
model and mentor within Sweden Triathlon, supporting women in the very best
ways. She is one of a kind and a true star. The most wonderful role model of
our sport!”
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 para triathlon 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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