World Triathlon is pleased to announce that the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) has announced that Aquathlon is included in the 9 sports and 10 disciplines which will form the core programme for the 2023 and 2025 ANOC World Beach Games.
Aquathlon made its debut in the
first-ever edition of the ANOC World Beach Games in Doha 2019, and will
continue to be included in the programme in the next two editions of the Games.
The 2023 edition have the dates pre-set at 24-30 September 2023, and the host
city will be announced shortly.
Aquathlon is planned to continue with
the same format as in Doha, with three medal events -elite men, elite women and
2x2 Mixed Relay-. Athletes will compete on a 5km run, 2k swim and a final 5k
run for the victory, while for the Mixed Relay event, each athlete will do a
1.25k run, 500m swim and another 1.25k run, with teams formed with a man and a
woman from the same country, and each athlete to do the distance twice. 60
athletes in total -30 men and 30 women- will participate in the Beach Games,
and the qualification process will be released shortly.
The 10 core disciplines included in
the programme for the ANOC World Beach Games are the following: Aquatics – Open
Water 5Km; Aquatics – Beach Waterpolo; Beach Wrestling; Beach Soccer; Beach
Volleyball 4x4; Beach Handball; Beach Tennis; Aquathlon; Kite surfing and Beach
Kata. In addition to the nine core sports, at each edition of the Games there
will be the option to add additional sports in agreement between ANOC and the
respective Organising Committee. This will allow the programme to be tailored
to the trends and cultures of each host county ensuring a unique feel for each
Games
“It was in a beach where triathlon
was born in 1974, a race that started with a run, followed by swim, bike and
run again. And that’s pretty similar to what our athletes do in Aquathlon, so I
am extremely pleased to see the discipline considered in the core programme of
the ANOC World Beach Games”, said World Triathlon President and IOC member,
Marisol Casado.
“We have been part of this project,
the ANOC World Beach Games, since its inception. The first-ever edition in Doha
was a great success and we showed the world the possibilities and beauty of
Aquathlon, and is great to have that chance again in 2023 and 2025. To be able
to have Aquathlon included in the core programme will indeed mean an incredible
boost for one of our most recent disciplines, and it will mean a great increase
in the number of athletes regularly competing in our events and enjoying the possibility
of participating in great multisport events as those Games will be”, she said.
“We are delighted to announce the
core sports for the next two editions of the ANOC World Beach Games. We have a
dynamic and diverse mix of youth-centred beach and water sports which will
ensure the ANOC World Beach Games continues to allow NOCs to engage new
athletes and a new generation of sports fans. By confirming the core programme
now, we are also giving NOCs and International Federations greater certainty
and time to plan for the Games,” said ANOC secretary general Gunilla Lindberg
said.
“After the success of Qatar 2019, we
have enjoyed a very positive collaboration with all the IFs that participated
in the Games and we look forward to working closely with them to deliver
fantastic competitions for our athletes and fans”, she said.
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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Aquathlon is a highly regarded multi-sport event that incorporates both swimming and running. There are three stages to the race, with a swimming portion wedged between two running races. The sport is very new, yet it has a sizable global following.
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