The World Triathlon Executive Board
has decided to award the 2026 World Triathlon Multisport Championships to Abu
Dhabi, UAE, while the 2027 edition will travel to Edmonton, Canada. World
Triathlon has also confirmed that the 2024 Mixed Relay Championships will be
held in Hamburg during the weekend of the World Triathlon Championship Series,
and made a few additions to the 2024 racing calendar.
“We are delighted to see the
continued commitment of Abu Dhabi with our sport,” said World Triathlon
President and IOC member Marisol Casado. “They have shown year after year the
desire to grow triathlon and to host the world’s best athletes in a remarkable
setting. After years of hosting outstanding WTCS action, it is hugely exciting
to know that the Multisport World Championships will be the next top-level
event to benefit from the formidable experience and dedication of Abu Dhabi as
well as Edmonton. And just ahead of the second ever Olympic Mixed Relay at
Paris 2024, we will crown the world champions in the city that has become
synonymous with the format, Hamburg.”
“On behalf of Modon, the Abu Dhabi
Sports Council, the UAE Triathlon Federation, the Department of Culture and
Tourism, and all Abu Dhabi Stakeholders, we are delighted to acknowledge that
Abu Dhabi Hudayriyat Island has been awarded the 2026 World Triathlon
Multisport Championship. This recognition acknowledges the strong relationship
between Abu Dhabi and World Triathlon and it is with joy that we confirm our
commitment to deliver a fantastic moment of sport along with an unforgettable
experience to all athletes, participants, and fans”, said Bill O’Regan, CEO of
Modon.
The world’s best Multisport athletes
will be ready to “Do North” in 2027, with the Multisport Championships awarded
to Edmonton. Having previously hosted the Championship Finals 2021 and 2014 and
multiple editions of the Championship Series, the Canadian city has a proven
record of hosting high quality events that provide world-class athletes and
local audiences an exceptional experience.
The upcoming Multisport World
Championships will bring together duathlon, cross duathlon, long-distance
triathlon, long-distance aquabike, aquathlon, and cross triathlon world
championship races in a week-long festival. Over 3,000 athletes from all over
the world will enjoy another festival of the sport with friends and family,
gathering for what has become in the last years one of the pinnacle events for
World Triathlon and the extended triathlon community.
The World Triathlon Multisport
Championships made its debut in the World Triathlon calendar in 2017 in
Penticton, Canada, followed by Fyn, Denmark in 2018, and Pontevedra, Spain in 2019.
After the pandemic impacted the 2020 event, in 2021 the championships were
divided across three different locations: Almere, The Netherlands hosted the
Long Distance and Aquabike races, while Aviles, Spain organised the Duathlon
World Championships, and El Anillo, Spain hosted the Cross Triathlon and
Aquathlon World Championships.
The 2022 World Triathlon Multisport
Championships were also split between two locations, with Targu Mures, Romania
hosting Duathlon, Cross Triathlon, and Cross Duathlon, while Samorin, Slovakia
hosted the Aquathlon and the Long Distance Triathlon and Aquabike World
Championships. In 2023, the event was hosted in Ibiza, Spain, while in 2024 the
Multisport community will gather in August in the city of Townsville,
Australia. The 2025 Multisport Championships will see world championship racing
return to Pontevedra, Spain.
Mixed Relay World Championships
In 2024, the Mixed Relay World
Champion title will once again be up for grabs in the format’s spiritual home
of Hamburg. The Mixed Relay World Championships will be held as part of the
22nd SUZUKI World Triathlon Hamburg powered by HAMBURG WASSER. While the
individual races of the World Triathlon Championship Series will take place on
Saturday 13 July 2024, the mixed relay world title will be contested one day
later (Sunday, 14 July).
This would be the 10th time that Free
and Hanseatic City of Hamburg hosts the Mixed Relay World Championships - from
2013 to 2020 and in 2023 - proving that the fast and furious format fits
perfectly not only with the city, but also with the fans and spectators that
every year come to watch one of the most exciting sporting event that takes
place in the city.
Change of date for Valencia World Cup
World Triathlon’s Executive Board has
also agreed to a change of the date of the 2024 World Triathlon Cup Valencia,
initially planned for 21 September 2024, that will now take place one week
earlier, on the weekend of 14 September 2024.
World Triathlon Para Cups
World Triathlon is pleased to
announce that four World Triathlon Para Cups have been added to the 2024 racing
calendar, three of them taking place during the Paralympic qualification
period.
Yenihesir, in Turkey, will welcome
Para triathletes from all over the world on April 20, 2024, while Vigo, Spain,
hometown of Para triathlon superstar Susana Rodriguez, will make its debut on
the Para circuit hosting a Para Triathlon Cup on 1-2 June.
The Para triathlon circuit will move
from there to Taranto, in Italy, for the second edition of the World Triathlon
Para Cup that will take place on 8-9 June 2024, still within the Paralympic
qualification period.
The last addition to the Para
triathlon calendar would be Alhandra, in Portugal, on 12 October 2024, just a
week before the World Triathlon Championship Finals in Malaga that will also
award this year’s Para triathlon world titles.
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