Paula Findlay (center) with the gold medal from Kitzbühel (August 2010)
The Kitzbühel triathlon is a year since 1988 in Kitzbuehel held Triathlon -Sportveranstaltung and is considered one of the oldest and largest triathlon events in Austria.
A triathlon was organized for the first time at Schwarzsee in 1988, and in the same year the club called "Team-Tri-Kitz" was founded. The main competition here is always a race over the "Olympic distance" (short distance) - 1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running.
In 1991 and again in 1995 the race had to be held as a duathlon due to the cold temperatures. In 1993, for the first time in Austrian triathlon history, more than 300 athletes took part in a short triathlon in Kitzbühel, and the victories for both men and women went to German starters.
In 1994 the Triathlon Club Kitzbühel was awarded an ETU race for the first time. For various reasons, no races were held here from 1998 to 2005.
After the Olympic victory of Kate Allen, who started for Austria in 2004, things got moving again. World Cup triathlons took place at Kitzbühel Schwarzsee in 2007 and 2008 ; from 2009 to 2013 the location was one of eight venues for the triathlon world championship series, and the only one that is not located in a city of over a million people. As part of the 2010 races, the USPE European Triathlon Police Championships were held here.
The Briton Alistair Brownlee (two-time triathlon world champion on the short distance, two-time Olympic champion and aquathlon world champion) is the most successful athlete here with five wins between 2009 and 2015.
In June 2017, after 2014, the European Triathlon Championships on the short distance took place here for the second time. In June 2019, the European Youth Championship was held as part of the Kitzbühel Triathlon (250 m swimming, 9 km cycling and 2 km running).
The event originally planned for June 19-21, 2020, had to be canceled at the beginning of April as the coronavirus spread .
Results
Olympic distance
The race over the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) was first held in 1994 as an ETU race.
