The race number allocation draw for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Triathlon races took place on Friday 2 July live on TriathlonLIVE.tv, allocating the transition spots for the 38 National Federations to have qualified athletes for the Olympic Games.
One side of the Olympic Triathlon
transition is numbered 1-29 (excluding number 13), the other numbered 30-56,
with National Federations with more than one athlete always allocated
consecutive numbers.
With the final names of the athletes
and start lists to be confirmed in the coming days, the Olympic Triathlon races
- men’s 26 July, women’s 27 July, mixed relay 31 July - are coming up fast.
Don’t forget to follow all of the build up, including exclusive interviews and
a brand new episode of the TriathlonLive Show out on Monday 5 July, via our
social media channels and www.triathlon.org and the hashtag
#Tokyo2020Triathlon.
Olympic Triathlon:
FACTS & STATS
A total of 38 NOCs have qualified
athletes for the Tokyo 2020 Games.
Out of these 38 nations, Morocco,
Egypt and Romania have qualified a spot for the first time in the history of
Olympic Triathlon.
Four NOCs - Australia, Great Britain,
Italy & USA - were able to qualify a maximum of three women for the Tokyo
Olympics.
Another four NOCs - Australia, Spain,
France and Norway - have managed to qualify the maximum number of three men to
compete in Tokyo.
Only Australia will have the maximum
of six athletes competing in Tokyo 2020.
A total of 18 teams will line up for
the debut of the Mixed Relay at the Olympics.
Of those…
- Seven qualified through the Mixed
Relay rankings - Australia, France, USA, Great Britain, New Zealand, Germany
& the Netherlands.
- Three qualified at the Mixed Relay
Qualification Event in Lisbon - Belgium, Italy & Switzerland.
- Japan qualified a team as host
country.
- A further 7 NFs qualified by having
at least two men and two women in Tokyo via the individual rankings - Austria,
Canada, Spain, Hungary, Mexico, South Africa & ROC.
START NUMBERS
Athletes wearing the number 34 may
have an extra lucky start in the Olympics - the number 34 athlete has already
won 3 Olympic medals (1 gold and 2 bronze).
There also may be good luck for
athletes wearing start numbers in the thirties - five Olympic gold medals have
gone to athletes wearing start numbers 30-39.
However, both of Bevan Docherty’s
(NZL) medals came while wearing the number 27.
The lowest start number to take home
a medal is 5 (Alistair Brownlee (GBR) in Rio 2016.
OLYMPIC PARTICIPATION
Anja Dittmer (GER), Hunter Kemper
(USA), Simon Whitfield (CAN), Ainhoa Murua (ESP), Hirokatsu Tayama (JPN),
Nicola Spirig (SUI) & Sven Riederer (SUI) are currently triathlon’s only
four-time Olympians. This year, Dmitry Polyanskiy (ROC), Vendula Frintova
(CZE), Flora Duffy (BER), Yuliya Yelistratova (UKR) & Barbara Riveros (CHI)
will join that select club.
Nicola Spirig will be the first and
only triathlete to have competed in 5 Olympic Games, winning a medal in two of
them (London 2012 and Rio 2016).
Two women and three men on the Tokyo
2020 Olympic start lists have won triathlon medals in previous editions of the
Olympic Games – Nicola Spirig and Vicky Holland (GBR) on the women’s side,
Jonathan Brownlee (GBR), Henri Schoeman (RSA) and Javier Gomez Noya (ESP) on
the men’s.
47 of the 110 men and women due to be
racing in Tokyo have already competed in at least one Olympic Games.
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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