After two breathless editions of the
format in Montreal in 2021 and 2022, World Triathlon will bring the first ever
Super-Sprint World Championships to Germany as the centrepiece of the 2023 WTCS
Hamburg action running from 13-16 July. The four-day programme also includes
the Elite, Jr/U23 and Age-Group Mixed Relay World Championships, Junior World
Championships and Age-Group Sprint World Championships, as well as the hugely
popular traditional open races that fill the city streets.
The elite races are part of the
ongoing qualification process for Paris 2024, with the 2023 Mixed Relay World
Champions automatically securing two female and two male berths for next year’s
Games (rolling down to the runners-up if the already-qualified Team GB win).
The famous WTCS Hamburg course will
be cut back for the Super-Sprint World Championships, now a 300m swim in the
Binnenalster lake, a tight and technical 3-lap, 7.5km bike through the city
centre and 2-lap 1.6km run in front of the Rathaus.
Qualifiers and Repechage races will
see the fastest 30 men and 30 women through to the Saturday’s three-stage
finals. There, the last 10 across the finish line will be cut from the next stage’s
start, until just 10 athletes are left to battle it out for not only the golds,
but precious Series points and the first Super-Sprint world titles.
“The Super-Sprint format has shown to
be another unique test of the world’s best triathletes, where tactics are as
crucial as their remarkable powers of endurance and recuperation. As part of
World Triathlon’s long-term strategy seeking to introduce additional individual
medal events to the Olympic program, the World Championships follow two hugely
successful outings at WTCS Montreal,” said World Triathlon President and IOC
member Marisol Casado.
“We are delighted to be able to stage
the format’s first World Championships alongside the Mixed Relay World
Championships for Elite and Jr/U23, the Junior World Championships and the Age
Group Sprint and Mixed Relay World Championships in Hamburg, all of which will
add huge entertainment to what was already one of the most popular stops on the
Series.”
Last year’s men’s winner in Montreal,
Alex Yee (GBR) will return to do battle with the likes of Hayden Wilde (NZL),
Matthew Hauser (AUS), Kristian Blummenfelt (NOR) and no.1 Vasco Vilaca (POR) as
the race for the 2023 world title continues to look wide open.
The USA boast the current women’s
no.1 and no.2 in the Series, Taylor Spivey and Summer Rappaport, both having
had top 5 finishes over the elimination format, one that also saw Beth Potter
score her first WTCS podium, and the Brit hits the start as the only woman with
two Series golds so far in 2023.
The full schedule for WTCS Hamburg
2023 (all times CEST)
Coverage on TriathlonLive.tv
Thu 13 July
3PM Opening Ceremony and Parade of
Nations
5PM Women’s Junior World
Championships
7PM Men’s Junior World Championships
Fri 14 July
8AM Elite Men’s Super-Sprint World
Championship Qualifiers
10AM Elite Women’s Super-Sprint World
Championship Qualifiers
MIDDAY Age Group Sprint World
Championships
7PM Elite men’s and women’s
Repechages
Sat 15 July
1PM Jr/U23 Mixed Relay World
Championships
4.20PM Elite Men’s and Women’s
Super-Sprint World Championship Finals
Sun 16 July
2.15PM Elite Mixed Relay World
Championships
4.15PM Age Group Mixed Relay World
Championships
8.45PM Closing Ceremony
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