The Spanish complex of El Anillo, in
Extremadura (Spain) will host the 2021 World Triathlon Aquathlon World
Championships in October, along with the World Triathlon Cross Triathlon World
Championships that will take place the same weekend in the same location. World
Champions in all categories, including age-group events, will be crowned on
30-31 October.
The World Triathlon Aquathlon
Championships and the World Triathlon Cross Championship have been part of the
World Triathlon Multisport Festival for the past five years and were planned to
take place in Almere this year but, due to the current travel restrictions in
the Netherlands, the organisers were only able to go ahead with the Long
Distance and Aquabike events.
With the 2021 World Triathlon
Duathlon World Championships taking place also in Spain, in Aviles, the
following week (6-7 November), it offers a great opportunity for elite and
age-group athletes to compete at three world championship events fewer than 10
days apart all within the same country.
“It is fantastic news that the
Aquathlon World Championships will also be held in Extremadura as it adds to
the true spirit of these competitions: the concept of the Multisport
Championship Festival. Having three World Championships in Spain in two weeks
brings a great opportunity to athletes from all around the world to discover
these two regions of Spain, Extremadura and Aviles, with multiple options for
easily connecting both cities”, explained World Triathlon President and IOC
Member, Marisol Casado.
The events in El Anillo of
Extremadura, which will also host the Spanish Multisport Championships that
same weekend, will bring together more than 1500 participants, with Elite,
Junior and Age-Group competitions taking place in both Cross Triathlon and
Aquathlon.
The waters of Gabriel y Galán
reservoir will be the perfect scenario for the swimming sections of both
events, with the running and cycling paths of El Anillo and its surroundings
providing a great course for the running and cycling segments.
World Triathlon wants to thank the
organisers and the Spanish Triathlon Federation for being able to step up once
again and put in place another world-class event in such a short period of time
after Almere announced that they could not host the Aquathlon, Duathlon and
Cross Triathlon World Championships this year.
All of the events will be run under
strict COVD guidelines approved by the Spanish Federation and World Triathlon,
and more details of the calendar, distances and registration process will be
announced in the next weeks.
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.
www.triathlon.org
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