World Triathlon is pleased to
announce the International Technical Officials that will officiate at the
upcoming 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games. There will be 43 National
Federations represented, and for the first time ever, 50% of the Officials
selected are female, going one step further on the commitment with gender
balance within the organization.
All five Continents are represented
in this selection, with representatives of 13 countries officiating at the
Olympics or Paralympics for the first time. The team will be a mix of Technical
Officials with experience in the previous Olympic or Paralympic Games, and some
others without any former experience on such level of competitions, which shows
the growth of competent officials in the last years.
28 Technical Officials have been
selected to officiate at the Olympic Games, and 27 TOs have been designated for
the Paralympic Games, also representing all five Continents. In both cases, 50%
of the elected TOs are female, increasing the percentage of female TOs from the
47% women that officiated at the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.
“With this selection, we are proving
once more not only that we have a strong and committed team of officials and
staff members, but also that we are trusting and empowering our female
officials, as we have been doing since our debut at the Olympics in Sydney
2000. I know that the bar is set high, but I am convinced that the commitment,
hard work and dedication of every single person in this list will be once more
key to ensure that the triathlon and paratriathlon events will shine more than
ever in Paris”, said Marisol Casado, World Triathlon President.
The Technical Officials were selected
in accordance with World Triathlon’s Technical Officials Appointment Rules,
which is a multi-phase process that involves creation of eligible list of
officials, proposals from the National Federations from the list of eligible
officials, selection by the World Triathlon Technical Committee and Technical
Delegates and finally approval from the World Triathlon Executive Board.
“World Triathlon implements a
transparent selection process that is designed to ensure a balanced
representation of the most qualified Technical Officials will be present at the
Olympics and Paralympics. We invest a lot on the education and mentorship of
the Technical Officials around the world, and they have proved to be
outstanding at every event. I’d like to thank all of those who were involved in
the selection process and congratulate all the Technical Officials, including
the ones that couldn’t make the list this time. There will be more
opportunities in the future for them!” said Gergely Markus, World Triathlon
Sports Director.
World Triathlon previously announced
that Laura Patti (ITA), Felix Molina (MEX) and Thanos Nikopoulos (GRE) have
been named the Technical Delegates for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Mr.
Nikopoulos will be Technical Delegate in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
The selection of the National
Technical Officials from France will follow in due course in accordance with
the Technical Officials Appointment Rules.
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games will
host three medal events for Triathlon: individual men & women and the Mixed
Relay included in the programme, after the successful debut of the thrilling
format in Tokyo. The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will welcome the biggest ever
para triathlon field with 120 athletes competing in 11 medal events.
At the same time the Executive Board
approved the list of International Technical Officials for the 2nd ANOC World
Beach Games Bali 2023. For sustainability reasons, nominations were only
accepted from Asia and Oceania. Nominations were submitted from 17 National
Federations for the 8 spots available. The selected Technical Officials are all
from different countries with the gender equity criteria also kept for this
event.
The selection of the National
Technical Officials from Indonesia will follow in due course in accordance with
the Technical Officials Appointment Rules.
Triathlon will be part of the program
of the World Beach Games with Aquathlon individual and mixed relay competitions
for the second time after the first edition in Doha in 2019.
International Technical Officials of
the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Maria Eugenia Micaela Arauz, ARG
Lyndell Murray, AUS
Fritz Schwarz, AUT
Ricardo Neves, BRA
Janice Turner, CAN
Keith Iwasaki, CAN
Zhiyang Ruan, CHN
Rolando Herrera Agon , CUB
Petr Muzicek, CZE
Miguel Alejandro Fernandez, ESP
Maisie Bancewicz, GBR
Uli Zierl, GER
Aggeliki Thoma, GRE
Györgyi Bodnár, HUN
Hideo Watanabe, JPN
Tomoko Oda, JPN
Alexei Kalinin, KGZ
Abdennour Rahmuni, MAR
Adele Cheah, MAS
Cinthia Quilo, MEX
Ivan Mihajlovski, MKD
Tony Sangster, NZL
Marie Josephine Zafra, PHI
Paula Maia, POR
Eva Blomqvist, SWE
Onur Şentürk, TUR
Paul Brandt, USA
Catherine Jennings, ZIM
International Technical Officials of
the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games
Michael Thompson, AUS
Patrick Hendrickx, BEL
Patricia Adams Petty, BER
Yan Therrien, CAN
Nicole Tixi, CHI
Cristina Jimenez , ECU
Carmen Gomez, ESP
Kati Raudsepp, EST
Jaakko Mattila, FIN
Duncan Hough, GBR
Maryia Charkouskaya-Tarasevich, GEO
Jan Philipp Krawczyk, GER
Rebecca Mok, HKG
Zoltán Magyarosi, HUN
Sajad Bagherian, IRI
Yuval Raiz, ISR
Koji Koganezawa, JPN
Kyung Sook (Kitty) Kim, KOR
Jose Israel Vera Herrera, MEX
Joanna Pyrzynska-Figurska, POL
Adina Dusa, ROU
Beryl Campbell, RSA
Steven Teck Cheong Wong, SGP
Winston Crooke, SKN
Stevee Espling, USA
Olga Blokhina, UZB
David Ellis, ZIM
Reserves of the Paris 2024 Olympic
and Paralympic Games
Kelly de los Angeles Barrientos
Hernandez, GUA
Byambaa Tsagaanbaatar, MGL
Peter Thygesen, DEN
Catherine Davey, NZL
Monica Flores, ESP
Houssem Felhi, TUN
International Technical Officials of
the 2nd ANOC World Beach Games Bali 2023
Micheal Wise, AUS
Sze Yuen Leo Mo, HKG
Mohammad Kazem Hojaji, IRI
Satoshi Hanai, JPN
Peak Sun (Suzanne) Tang, MAS
Claire Hannan, NZL
Siew Yee Ng, SGP
Yelena Kun, UZB
Reserves of the 2nd ANOC World Beach
Games Bali 2023
Bei Wang, CHN
Jaewoo Lim, KOR
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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