With WTCS Abu Dhabi providing the
eagerly awaited 2023 curtain-raiser at the start of March, the new World
Triathlon season continues to welcome exciting events to the calendar.
WTCS Sunderland takes over hosting
for this year’s GB leg of the Series in the north of England, and a Mixed Relay
has now been added to the programme for 30 July, giving athletes and teams
another opportunity to test their squads and set ups ahead of the format’s
second Olympic showdown at Paris 2024.
With the World Triathlon Cup circuit
already destined for South America later in the season, Brasilia is another
timely new addition to the calendar. The standard-distance World Cup will take
place on 15 October, coming just ahead of the Pan American Games Santiago and
the World Cups in Vina Del Mar (CHI) and Montevideo (URU).
The World Triathlon Cup Yeongdo in
South Korea, originally planned for 6-7 May, has been rescheduled and will now
take place in the second half of the season and will form part of the second
Olympic qualification period events, the exact date will be confirmed shortly.
Finally, Alhandra will host a World
Triathlon Para Cup on the West coast of Portugal for the third consecutive year
on the 7-8 October, also forming part of the Paris 2024 Paralympic qualification
period.
The Executive Board has also decided
that the Paris Test Event, planned to take place 17-20 August, 2023, will also
count for the World Triathlon Championship Series rankings. This season, the
best four scores plus the Championship Finals in Pontevedra will count for the
Series Rankings.
World Triathlon’s Board has approved
to change the 2023 Prize Money distribution, allocating more money to the WTCS
events and the Finals and less to the Bonus Pool that is distributed at the end
of the season, but also distributing it to a wider representation of athletes,
so that at each WTCS event 200,000 USD will be distributed among the top 30
athletes, while at the Championship Finals it will go down to the 40th place,
and for the Bonus Pool until the 35th athlete. In all cases, all prize money
will be distributed equally at men and women races.
In 2023, World Triathlon will
distribute a total of 3,480,000 USD on prize money for the World Triathlon
Championship Series, Championship Finals, Bonus Pool, Mixed Relay and World Cup
circuit, compared to 2,960,000 USD distributed last year.
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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