World Triathlon is pleased to
announce that Paris will host, from August 17-20, 2023, the Test Event for the
Olympic and Paralympic Games. The individual races will take place on Thursday
and Friday, while the Para triathlon will be hosted on Saturday. The fast and
furious Mixed Relay will take the streets on Sunday’s final day of competition.
The four events will take place in
the same venue that will host the triathlon competition during the Paris 2024
Olympic & Paralympics, the magnificent Pont Alexandre III, one of the most
beautiful bridges over the Seine river.
The athletes racing the 2023 World
Triathlon Test Event Paris will face a 1500m swim on the Seine river to then
jump on their bikes for a 40km bike course along some of the most iconic
streets of Paris: from the Champs-Élysées to the Invalides and the Eiffel
Tower. The final 10km run will again see athletes enjoying the heart of the
city to finish on Pont Alexandre III, the golden statues of the bridge being a
witness of the preview of what the atmosphere will be like at the Olympics in
2024.
The best Para triathletes of the
world will take the stage on Saturday on the same venue for the 2023 World
Triathlon Para Cup Paris, contested over a Sprint course similar to the Elite
athletes, sharing start, finish and transition areas and with just minor
changes on the courses to adapt it to their distance.
The final day of competition will be
for the 2023 World Triathlon Mixed Relay Series Paris, again with the Pont
Alexandre III witnessing all the action.
Detailed course maps and schedules
will be released in the next months. All three events of the Paris Test Event
-individual races, para triathlon & mixed relay- will be included in the
Olympic or Paralympic qualification period, and therefore will award points for
the Olympic or Paralympic Ranking.
World Triathlon is working closely
with the Paris 2024 organising committee to deliver the Test Events and the
Paris 2024 events under optimal circumstances.
After announcing the first events of
the 2023 calendar a month ago, the World Triathlon Executive Board approved
more events to be included in the season planning.
The Australian town of Busselton will
make its debut on the World Cup circuit on April 29-30 in what will be the
return of this country to hosting World Triathlon top international events
after a two-year hiatus.
2023 will see the return to the
circuit of one of the most classic and loved by athletes and spectators alike
races: Tiszaujvaros, in Hungary, that will host a World Cup on July 8-9.
The Spanish city of Valencia will
welcome again a World Cup, on September 2-3, while Tongyeong (KOR) will host a
World Cup on October 21.
Please note that the above calendar
is not final, with more events to be announced in the coming weeks.
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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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