World Triathlon Executive Board has approved to award the 2023 World Triathlon Championship Finals to Pontevedra, Spain. World Champions will be crowned for the Elite, U23 and Para triathlon, as well as Age-Group Standard distance, Age-Group Super Sprint distance and the Age-Group Standard distance Aquabike World Championships.
The Championship Final is the crown
jewel of World Triathlon’s annual calendar. Previous hosts have included such
cities as London, Budapest, Beijing, Auckland, Chicago, Gold Coast, Lausanne
and Edmonton, with the next one planned in Abu Dhabi in 2022.
“We are delighted that Pontevedra,
which has proven to be a fantastic host of multiple sports in the World
Triathlon calendar, will now welcome the best triathletes of the world for the
Championship Finals in 2023”, said World Triathlon President and IOC member,
Marisol Casado.
“The Spanish Federation has been a
great host for many events and we are delighted to step up and host the Final
for the first time in our country”, said Jose Hidalgo, president of the Spanish
Federation. Pontevedra was host in 2019 of the Multisports World Championships,
with Javier Gomez Noya claiming the long-distance world title in front of
thousands of spectators in one of the most memorable events of the World
Triathlon calendar in years.
“I have raced pretty much all the
World Triathlon Finals, in some of the most incredible cities around the world,
but words can not describe how excited I am that a small town like Pontevedra,
my hometown, will be now amongst the top cities to host triathlon events”, said
five times world champion and Pontevedra local hero, Javier Gomez Noya. “I know
the city, I know the organisers and I can promise that we are all ready to host
the most important triathlon in the world in 2023”, he said.
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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