World Triathlon and ANOC are pleased
to announce the Qualification Criteria for the 2023 ANOC World Beach Games that
will take in Bali, Indonesia, and that will have once again Aquathlon included
on the official programme, with three medal events: men, women and Mixed Relay.
A total of 60 athletes will
participate in the Individual races, 30 men and 30 women, and they will compete
on a 2,5km run – 1k swim – 2,5k run. For the Mixed Relay event, each athlete
will do a 1.25k run - 500m swim - 1.25k run, with teams formed with a man and a
woman from the same country, and each athlete to do the distance twice.
To be eligible to participate in the
ANOC World Beach Games Bali 2023, all athletes must be on the World Triathlon
Aquathlon Ranking.
The 20 highest ranked athletes, on
the World Triathlon Aquathlon Ranking as of 15 May 2023 will be allocated one
quota place for their National Olympic Committee, respecting the maximum quota
allocation of two athletes per country per event.
In order to ensure all continents are
represented, the highest ranked athlete of a NOC from any of the five
continents not yet represented following the allocation of quotas will receive
one quota place for their NOC.
The Host Country, will have
guaranteed two places per gender and event as long as they comply with the
eligibility criteria. The remaining four places per gender will be allocated
via invitations.
All countries that have a minimum of
one man and one woman participating are eligible for the Mixed Relay
competition, and if a country has two male and two females qualified, they can
enter two teams in the Mixed Relay event.
The 2023 ANOC World Beach Games will
take place 5-12 August 2023. More than 1,200 athletes from 97 NOCs competed at
Qatar 2019 and similar global participation will be expected next year in Bali.
The Games will be a celebration of beach and water sports, and will include the
ten disciplines of the Core Programme – Aquathlon, Beach Handball, Beach
Soccer, Beach Tennis, Beach Volley 4×4, Beach Waterpolo, Beach Wrestling,
Individual Kata, Expression Kiteboarding and Open Water Swimming 5km– as well
as additional disciplines proposed by the Organising Committee, to be confirmed
in the coming weeks.
The debut of Aquathlon at the Beach
games was a fantastic one for Spain, who claimed gold in the three medals:
Xisca Tous won the individual women’s race, Kevn Tarek Vinuelas was the first
one crossing the finish line on the men’s race while both of them claimed gold
in the Mixed Relay.
Check the 2023 ANOC World Beach Games
Aquathlon Qualification Criteria here.
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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