The World Triathlon Multisport
Championships Ibiza become the third event to receive the Gold Certificate for
Sustainability, awarded ahead of 2023 edition
The Local Organising Committee of the
2023 World Triathlon Multisports Championships Ibiza has received the Gold
Certificate – the highest award possible – for its measures to ensure the
sustainability of the 10-day event.
The LOC is aiming for a zero-waste
event, with no single-use plastic bottles among the central practices in
keeping with the island’s commitment to fight against its use. The
Championships' carbon footprint will be measured to learn which areas of its
sustainability may be improved upon in future and to share best practice with
subsequent editions here and around the world.
“My congratulations to the Ibiza LOC
for this wonderful achievement and important legacy for our sport,” said World
Triathlon President Marisol Casado. “When World Triathlon started this project,
we were encouraging organisations to implement sustainable measures across all
areas of the events. The efforts made by the Ibiza LOC have overachieved our
goals.”
“It is a great pleasure to see how
the organising team has been busy weaving sustainability into all areas of
delivery and, whilst a number of them will be unseen by participants and
spectators, there are many that everyone will notice and be able to contribute
towards. We are sure that everyone will be able to notice a shade of green
throughout the blue carpet at this landmark event.”
Working with local producers as much
as possible, using organic and/or fair trade products and an overarching
awareness campaign for all athletes and attendees will further underline
Ibiza’s claim to the title of the most sustainable World Triathlon Multisport
Championships ever.
A beach-clean event will be held on
Thursday 4 May, with all encouraged to play their part in keeping the White
Isle’s famous sands free of litter and ensuring that the championships and its
participants leave the island with the least possible impact to its natural
environment.
José Hidalgo, president of the
Spanish Triathlon Federation, added; "Since its inception, one of the most
important pillars on which the Ibiza Multisport World Championship was based
was the sustainability, respect and preservation of Ibiza’s natural and marine
environments. For all this, I am very happy that World Triathlon has assessed
all the strategies and measures that we are going to implement and has decided
to grant them the gold certification, which is the highest certification
granted by the international federation and under some very exacting
standards.”
This will also be the first
Multisport World Championships at which virtual race capsules will replace
finisher medals for Age Group athletes through an agreement between the LOC and
TRI's NFT partner Podium. As World Triathlon continues its own commitments to
cutting its carbon footprint, the digital record will give the athletes
competing in Ibiza their own unique capsule with personalised, shareable data
from their race.
For his part, the president of the
Consell d'Eivissa, Vicent Marí, celebrated the recognition of an event that
will serve "to value our ability to organise sporting events of global
projection" but, at the same time, "to highlight our natural
heritage". In this sense, the president applauded "the awareness
shown by the Organising Committee, involved from the first minute in achieving
a zero-impact event for our environment that, at the same time, will show the
athletes an idyllic place to practice their favorite sport".
For more information on World
Triathlon’s commitment to a sustainable sport, click here.
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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