The World Triathlon Sprint &
Relay Championships will take place in Hamburg from 13 to 16 July 2023. World
Triathlon, the German Triathlon Union (DTU) and the Free and Hanseatic City of
Hamburg have agreed on this timeframe just over a year before the World
Championships.
The Sprint & Relay Championships
is a multiple-event programme to be staged in Hamburg. The event includes the
World Triathlon Championship Series for the elite athletes, as well as the
Junior World Championships, Age-Group Sprint World Championships and the Mixed
Relay World Championships for Elites, Junior/U23 and Age-Group categories.
The 2023 Sprint & Relay
Championships is expected to attract an estimated 4,000 competitors from all
around the world, support teams, officials, family and friends from all over
the world. The first edition of this event will take place next June in
Montreal (Canada).
Sports Senator Andy Grote said: “The
Active City is Germany’s triathlon arena! With the first triathlon in the
centre of a major German city, Hamburg thrilled the sports world in 2002 and
set standards. Today, Hamburg is a flagship in the international triathlon
world with the “World’s Biggest Tri” and has been a continuous venue of the
World Series for many years. Next year we will step it up one more time and
bring the Triathlon World Championships to the Hanseatic City again after 2007.
We are very much looking forward to welcoming the best athletes from all over
the world in July 2023 in front of a spectacular city centre backdrop for the
big showdown.”
“We are absolutely delighted to
return to Hamburg for the 2023 Sprint & Relay Championships”, said Marisol
Casado, World Triathlon President and IOC Member. “The Mixed Relay is an event
that is and will be linked forever with the city, having hosted our World
Championships for so many years. It is also an iconic destination for
age-groupers from all over the world. So it made all sense to group them all
together in one of our most special events: the Sprint & Relay
Championships. We are ready to provide the fans with even more opportunities to
enjoy triathlon at its best in Hamburg. The spectators really love it, the
venue in the heart of the city is outstanding and the athletes enjoy it so
much. We cannot wait to see some more iconic sprint finishes, dives and of
course the Hamburg style beer showers.”
DTU President, Martin Engelhardt,
said: “It is great that together with our partners World Triathlon and the City
of Hamburg we were able to set a date for next year’s season highlight at an
early stage. This gives everyone involved the necessary planning security to
host an iconic triathlon event in the Active City Hamburg in 2023. I am already
looking forward to experiencing a very special atmosphere, which is unique
worldwide thanks to the many thousands of spectators along the courses. The
world’s best elite athletes, as well as age group athletes from all over the
world, will turn Hamburg into the triathlon Mecca and ensure rousing
competitions that will be remembered by all.”
At the 2023 World Triathlon Sprint
& Relay Championships, medals will be awarded in a total of nine
competitions. In addition to the elite individual and mixed relay races, junior
and age group athletes will also compete for World Championship medals in
individual and relay races.
While the junior and age group
athletes will compete in the individual sprint distance (750m swim, 20km bike,
5km run), the elite will use the new eliminator format: here, athletes have to
qualify for the final over the super sprint distance (300m swim, 7km bike,
1.5km run) via semi-finals or repechages.
To host the World Triathlon Sprint
& Relay Championships, DTU will closely cooperate with IRONMAN Germany.
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.
www.triathlon.org
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