ITU World Championship Series

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Flora Duffy - World Champion on the short distance triathlon in 2016 and 2017
Mario Mola - World Champion in the short distance triathlon in 2016 and 2017

The Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series is a triathlon racing series over the "short distance" or "Olympic triathlon distance" (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running).

organization

In 1989, the international triathlon association ITU ( International Triathlon Union ) held the Triathlon World Championship as a 1-day World Championship in Avignon for the first time and has been repeated annually since then until 2008.

In 2009, the Triathlon World Championship was then expanded to include an international racing series under the name "Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series". Dextro Energy , the eponym of this series is considered one of the leading glucose manufacturers.

Gold Group

The ITU has been designating a “Gold Group” every year since 2009 - the ten best women and men from previous years each represent the ITU in public and secure an additional starting place for their national associations for each of the seven races.

For 2011, in addition to the Olympic champions Emma Snowsill and Jan Frodeno , Steffen Justus as well as Nicola Spirig and Sven Riederer for Switzerland were there.

2009 season

Eight races were held in the 2009 season.

2010 season

Seven races were held in the 2010 season.

2011 season

Seven races were held in the 2011 season.

2012 season

Eight races were held in the 2012 season.

2013 season

In the 2013 season, seven races and the final in September were held in London:

2014 season

In the 2014 season, seven races and the final in September were held in Edmonton:

2015 season

In the 2015 season, nine races and the final in September were held in Chicago:

2016 season

In the 2016 season, eight races and the finale in Cozumel were held in September :

2017 season

In the 2017 season, eight races and the final in September were held in Rotterdam. The venue Cape Town (now the first World Cup race) has been replaced by Montreal in the racing series :

2018 season

In the 2018 season, seven races and the final in September were held in Australia:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. www.dextro-energy.de
  2. ^ Gold Group Explained
  3. ITU Names 2011 Gold Group (February 23, 2011)