Federación Española de Triatlón (FETRI) is the official trade association in Spain for triathletes and related sports (aquathlon, duathlon, crossduathlon and triathlon).
Gurutz Frades - four-time national champion in the long-distance triathlon (2011-2014)
In 1989, the former Spanish triathlete Marisol Casado (* 1956) was a founding member of the Spanish triathlon association "Federación Española de Triatlón", of which she has been vice president since 2008.
In the same year, the International Triathlon Union (ITU) was founded on the initiative of the Spaniard and then IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch in Avignon in 1989 to give the triathlon an official framework in the course of its increasing popularity.
From 2002 to 2009 Marisol Casado was President of the European Triathlon Union and since 2008 she has been President of the ITU.
Eleven years after the association was founded, the sport of triathlon was accepted as an Olympic discipline in 2000.
Spanish state champions
German championships are held annually by FETRI at different or alternating locations (sometimes over different distances) in
Duathlon
Triathlon
Cross duathlon
Cross triathlon
Aquathlon
Duathlon
Emilio Martín as leader of the European Duathlon Championship in April 2015 - National Duathlon Champion short distance (2013, 2015, 2017)
Short distance
elite
All athletes who are registered as professional athletes in the current year start in the elite class.
In April 2017, 34-year-old Emilio Martín became the Spanish national champion of the short distance duathlon for the third time after 2013 and 2015.
In the triathlon, the half distance (= Ironman 70.3 ) is roughly double the "Olympic distance" or half the Ironman distance: 1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km running.
