As the long transition back to international racing continues under essential controls designed to ensure the good health and wellbeing of all involved, World Triathlon has released a new version of its Covid Prevention Guidelines, with updated policies, recommendations and best practices for LOCs and the host cities.
The updates include the latest
information from the World Health Organisation and medical research papers on
the subject, as World Triathlon continues to pursue the safest possible routes
back to the full race calendar, with details of medical support facilities for
athletes and the latest transmission prevention methods.
Using the WHO risk assessment tool
for mass participation event organisers, LOCs are advised to only proceed with
an event if it falls in the Very Low or Low Risk categories. Each event must
continue to appoint a Covid-19 Officer to provide a central point of contact
for all communication and stakeholder liaison, as well as a Covid-19 Committee
to ‘define, implement and monitor’ the local situation leading into an event.
The wearing of masks, physical
distancing, hand sanitisation and avoiding events if unwell continue to be
mandated at all World Triathlon racing, with work spaces and facilities all
planned in a way to make the measures as straightforward to carry out as
possible. Where spectators are allowed by local government, the creation and
sharing of detailed information to control the flow of people and avoid
crowding continues to be required.
Online pre-race briefings will
continue and registration carried out under strict control of numbers and flow
of athletes. Likewise, medal ceremonies will continue to be non-contact with
only another athlete permitted to give a medal to a fellow athlete on the
podium.
The new version of World Triathlon’s
Covid Prevention Guidelines for Event Organisers can be found here and is also
available in Spanish.
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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