World Triathlon is pleased to
announce that the 2023 Pontevedra World Triathlon Championship Finals will take
place 20-24 September in the Spanish northern city. After the success of the
World Cup hosted two weeks ago, serving also as a test event, next year 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 Finals 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.
The full calendar of the event will
be announced in the next months, but preparations for the Finals have already
started in the city.
“Pontevedra has shown multiple times,
last time only a few weeks ago, that has everything in place to host top-level
triathlon events. We are delighted to be returning here for the Championship
Finals in 2023. This city has proven to be a fantastic host of multiple sports
in the World Triathlon calendar, and I am sure that it will be more tan ready
to welcome the best triathletes of the world”, said World Triathlon President
and IOC member, Marisol Casado.
“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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