World Triathlon is proud to announce that the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will feature 11 medal events for Para triathlon, and has also confirmed an athlete quota of 120, 40 more than in the previous Games hosted in Tokyo.
The announcement follows the IPC
Governing Board’s approval of the final medal events programme and athlete
quotas for the next Paralympic Games following a lengthy consultation exercise
with all the international federations. For Para triathlon, the medal events
IPC has confirmed from World Triathlon’s proposal are Men’s PTWC, PTS2, PTS3,
PTS4, PTS5 and PTVI, and Women’s PTWC, PTS2, PTS4, PTS5 and PTVI, three more
medal events than in Tokyo 2020.
Regarding the athlete quota, the IPC
has confirmed 54 men (18 more than in Tokyo), 50 women (14 more than in Tokyo)
and another 18 spots for invitations, with no gender pre-determined yet, for a
total of 120 Para triathletes competing at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Game. In
Tokyo 2020 we saw a total of 80 Para athletes competing for a total of 8 medal
events.
“We are delighted with this decision,
that proves that Para triathlon is one of the key sports in the Paralympic programme,
and we keep increasing the number of events and the number of participants”,
said World Triathlon President and IOC member, Marisol Casado. “World Triathlon
was hoping to get the 6+6 Para triathlon classes in the Paralympics. Despite
the efforts, unfortunately one of the female events did not make the cut to be
included in the Programme, according to the IPC Handbook requirements. But we
will explore all options to be able to offer an opportunity for female athletes
in all sport classes to qualify for Paris 2024”, said the President.
In total, the Paris 2024 Paralympic
Games will feature a maximum of 4,400 Para athletes who will compete in 549
medal events across 22 Para sports. The Games will include a record 235 medal
events for women, eight more than at Tokyo 2020.
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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