World Triathlon’s Executive Board has
decided to award the Spanish city of Pontevedra the hosting of the 2025 World
Triathlon Multisport Championships, the second time that the home-town of
triathlon legend Javier Gomez Noya will host the event.
“We are really grateful to return to
Pontevedra with another major event, only two years after celebrating this
summer’s Championships Finals and further proof that the city, the Spanish
Federation and the local organisers are committed to our sport. I am absolutely
convinced that the combination of their experience in organising events, the
welcoming people of Galicia, the stunning setting and the combination of
pristine beaches and wonderful nature will once again make the Pontevedra
Multisport Championships one to be remembered,” said World Triathlon President
and IOC member, Marisol Casado.
The Multisport World Championships
will see duathlon, cross duathlon, long distance triathlon, aquathlon and cross
triathlon world championship racing organised together during a week-long
festival. Pontevedra, the home of five-time World Champion Javier Gomez Noya,
is a seasoned host of major triathlon events being the venue of the 2019
Multisport Championships and many Europe Triathlon events. This September, the
city will host the 2023 World Triathlon Championship Finals that will crown the
best triathletes of the world.
The World Triathlon Multisport
Championships made its debut in the World Triathlon calendar in 2017 in
Penticton (Canada), a successful event that was followed by Fyn (Denmark) in
2018 and Pontevedra (Spain) in 2019. The event had to be cancelled in 2020 due
to the impact of Covid and in 2021 was split in three different locations:
Almere (The Netherlands) hosted the Long Distance and Aquabike races, while the
Duathlon World Championships were organised in Aviles, Spain, and the Cross
Triathlon and Aquathlon World Championships took place in El Anillo,
Spain.
The 2022 World Triathlon Multisport
Championships were also split, with Targu Mures (Romania) hosting the Duathlon,
Cross Triathlon and Cross Duathlon, while the Aquathlon and the Long Distance
Triathlon and Aquabike World Championships took place in Samorin, Slovakia. In
2023 the event will travel to Ibiza (Spain), while in 2024 the city of Townsville
(Australia) will welcome the Multisport Championships.
World Triathlon Cups
The World Triathlon Executive Board
also confirmed that World Triathlon Cup Yeongdo, that had to be postponed in
February, is now confirmed for 5-6 August.
Another event added to the 2023 World
Cup calendar in Asia is the well known host of Weihai, returning to the circuit
after last hosting in 2019. The original intention was to stage these two
events back to back, but unfortunately it was not possible to find a common
date for both events. The World Triathlon Cup Weihai will take place on 26-27
August over the standard distance.
The third addition to the calendar is
a World Cup in Tanger, Morocco, to take place on 1 October and held over the
sprint distance. World Triathlon will now have a major event in Africa for the
first time since 2019, meeting a strategic goal of the Executive Board to hold
an event on all five continents.
A final change in the calendar is to
move the World Triathlon Para Cup event in A Coruna to three weeks later, now
to be held on the weekend of 1-2 July, and it will now be the first event in
the Paralympic qualification period.
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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