Organisers of the World Triathlon
Multisport Championships have today announced that the event will be taking
place in Townsville, Australia, from 15-25 August, 2024.
The 12-day event will include 19
World Championship races across five different levels of athletes, including
Age Group, Paratriathletes, Junior, Under 23 and Elites.
Thousands of athletes from around the
world will make their way to North Queensland for the event, with it being the
first time the World Triathlon Multisport Championships have been held in
Australia.
The World Triathlon Multisport
Championships will see duathlon, long distance triathlon, long distance
aquabike, aquathlon, cross triathlon and cross duathlon world championship
races organised together over the 12-day festival.
This ground-breaking event now allows
for athletes to compete in various multisport races, as opposed to electing
only one each season. And participants can even vie for the Multisport Legend,
a title reserved for those who compete in at least five of the events.
“The Multisport World Championships
is one of the most successful events in our calendar, and it has proven to be a
perfect combination of sport and great triathlon destination for athletes but
also for their friends and families, and we are absolutely excited to bring
that event to Australia, that has such a great history of hosting World
Triathlon events at the best level,” said World Triathlon President and IOC Member,
Marisol Casado.
“Over the last years, Australia has
become synonymous of triathlon on its multiple variations, and has proved to be
a magnificent host for the triathlon family, playing host to some truly
memorable performances and great champions, staging races the results of which
have helped shape the path of entire seasons. We are extremely excited to head
to Townsville in 2024, I am convinced that in 2024, the World Triathlon family
will gather together for a true celebration of the sport,” she said.
Triathlon Australia CEO Tim Harradine
said that the countdown to the event was now well and truly on.
“We look forward to hosting the
world’s top athletes in Townsville as we further establish our reputation for
hosting world-class multisport events,” said Harradine. “We’re proud of
Australia’s strong history of delivering exceptional experiences, in
exceptional locations and we also acknowledge the invaluable support of event
partners who have made it possible to bring back international racing to Australia
and re-establish our place on the global triathlon calendar.”
“The countdown to Townsville 2024 is
officially on and our Australian athletes are determined to secure their spot
on the start line with our Team Australia Qualifying Races getting underway
this weekend,” he said.
Townsville Mayor Jenny Hill said the
city looked forward to welcoming the triathlon world next August.
“Townsville is delighted to welcome
the World Triathlon Multisport Championships to our city in August,” Townsville
Mayor Jenny Hill said. “This is a major coup for our city and to be the first
city in Australia to host this prestigious event is a massive vote of
confidence in Townsville’s ability to host world class sporting events.
“This event will be a boost to our
economy, and we look forward to welcoming athletes, support staff and tourists
to our city,” she said.
The World Triathlon Multisport
Championships made its debut in the World Triathlon calendar in 2017 in
Penticton (Canada), a successful event that was followed by Fyn (Denmark) in
2018 and Pontevedra (Spain) in 2019. The event had to be cancelled in 2020 due
to the impact of Covid and in 2021 was split in three different locations:
Almere (The Netherlands) hosted the Long Distance and Aquabike races, while the
Duathlon World Championships were organised in Aviles, Spain, and the Cross
Triathlon World Championships took place in El Anillo, Spain.
The 2022 World Triathlon Multisport
Championships took place in Targu Mures, Romania, and Samorin, Slovakia, while
for 2023 the event will go back to its tradition set up of one location hosting
all events: Ibiza, Spain, will host the Multisport World Championships from 29
April until May7.
The World Triathlon Multisport
Championships Townsville is supported by the Queensland Government through
Tourism and Events Queensland and features on the It’s Live! in Queensland
events calendar.
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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