The World Triathlon Cup is an annual series of triathlon races staged around the world. The series is organised by the World Triathlon , the world governing body of the sport. Inaugurated in 1991, the World Cup began as an attempt to create a regular season under its management in tandem with the ITU Triathlon World Championship race. However, this meant that there was a World Cup champion as well as a world champion. Following the 2008 series the ITU reorganized its top level competitions and created the World Triathlon Series , a series of races that was to be the successor of the World Championship. Meanwhile, the World Cup was relegated to become a second tier series, as a result the number of races in the World Cup were reduced. Since the reformat, points earned in World Cup racing are now applied only to an athlete's World Ranking.
23-656: At its founding the first twenty athletes each race would earn points dependent on their placing and the athletes with the most points at the end of the season would be named the World cup champion. With the reorganization in 2009 and the discontinuation of the world cup champion title it was decided that world cup points should contribute to an athlete's world series. This was managed by allowing athletes best two world cup placements could be considered as part of their world series ranking. However, due ranking being based on an athlete's four highest scoring appearances that year along with
46-517: A $ 150,000 prize purse and for the Grand final to have $ 250,000, this also meant that $ 700,000 was available at the end of the series. This influx of cash meant that athletes would be to earn almost triple what they had previously helping to draw more into the sport. In 2011 the sprint distance world championship was incorporated into the series giving the same points and prize money as any other event, from this point on sprint distance events would make up
69-581: A part of the series. In 2012 Dextro Energy ended their title sponsorship in tandem with the series rebranding itself as the World Triathlon Series. Then in 2013 the prize pool saw an increase to $ 2.25 million certifying the world triathlon series as the richest series in triathlon. In 2018 with the growing popularity of the World Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships and the disciplines' addition to
92-550: A result of COVID-19 the Championship was once more decided on the basis of a single Championship race, won by Vincent Luis of France and Georgia Taylor-Brown of Great Britain and England. As Luis had already won a world title in 2019 under the now established season-long format, he in effect became only the third triathlete to win World Championships in both the single race and season-long formats. During
115-518: Is an annual series of triathlon events organised by World Triathlon . The series is used to crown an annual world champion since 2008. Previously, the ITU (the former name of World Triathlon) world champion between 1989 and 2008 had been decided in a single annual championship race. The Championship Series consists of multiple rounds of competitions culminating in a Grand Final race. Athletes compete head-to-head for points in these races that will determine
138-500: Is denominated as the World Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships . Relays typically consist of four 'super-sprint' legs. Since 2021 the leg holding the Mixed Relay Championships has also included the reinstated World Triathlon Sprint Championships under the combined branding of World Triathlon Sprint & Relay Championships . The stand-alone Sprint championship had previously been discontinued in 2011. Races in
161-558: Is known as the grand final and has extra points, prize money and prestige associated with it, when a city bids to host the grand final it also bids to host many World Triathlon events such as the amateur Age-group world championships and the Paratriathlon world championship . 2020 Series was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic . Champion was determined during a single sprint race event in Hamburg, Germany. The world champion
184-605: The Triathlon Venue at the Ming Tomb Reservoir in Shisanling . Each competitor started the event with a 1,500 metres (0.93 mi) swim course, followed by a 40 kilometres (25 mi) road bicycle race and finished with a 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) road run . Both leg transitions (swimming—cycling and cycling—running) were performed on a special transition area, under judge's scrutiny. The cycling
207-614: The 2023 events, at least 57 participants fell ill after swimming off Roker Beach in Sunderland . An Environment Agency sample taken three days before the event indicated 3,900 E. coli colonies per 100ml, over 39 times higher than readings taken the previous month, but the results were not published until after the competition. Northumbrian Water reported that no discharges that would have affected water quality off Roker Beach were recorded since October 2021. Currently there are three different distance disciplines: In all instances
230-552: The ITU created the ITU Triathlon World Cup a year long series of races all hosted by the ITU with regular distances and prize money. With a world championship and a regular season established the ITU's attention moved onto other issues including earning the sport a place at the Olympics. Then in 2008 the day after the 2008 men's Olympic triathlon race the ITU announced starting next year it would be replacing
253-556: The Olympic program it was decided that at three of the events on the 2018 calendar a mixed relay event would be held alongside the men's and women's competition; these three events would grant points towards Olympic qualification and constitute the new mixed relay series. Only two triathletes succeeded in winning World Championships under both formats, Javier Gomez of Spain, and Helen Jenkins (née Tucker) of Great Britain and Wales. In 2020, in response to multiple race cancellations as
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#1732772755783276-409: The fact that world series races were worth 2.5 times as much as a world cup meant that no contribution was made to any athlete in the top 10. After 2014 world cup points totals were increased awarding first place 500 points and each subsequent athlete 7.5% less points that the athlete before for the first 50 athletes as long as they made the time cut (5% to the winner's time in the men's event and 8% in
299-539: The overall World Triathlon champion. The elite championship races are held, with one exception, over one of two distances, the standard or 'Olympic' distance (1.5 km swim, 40 km bike, 10 km run) which lasts between 1.5 and two hours, and the sprint distance, which is half of the standard distance and lasts around one hour (750 m swim, 20 km bike, 5 km run). Since 2018 a mixed relay series has been run in tandem, where national teams compete in mixed team relays for prize money and Olympic qualifying points. From these races, one
322-486: The single race world championship with a six-race World Championship points super series culminating in a Grand Final, it was to be called the World Championship Series (WCS). The ITU believed it would help grow the sport and increase the reach to the level of major sports whilst gaining a bigger TV audience. Most athletes and professional coaches were happy at the announcement believing it would help
345-543: The sport become more popular and increase professionalism and pay for the top level athletes. However, there were major monetary concerns one week after the announcement as the ITUs main sponsor BG had pulled out of its nine-year sponsorship deal after only two years. By its start in 2009 the series had gained a title sponsor in Dextro Energy in a $ 2 million deal allowing for each World Championship event to feature
368-491: The sprint world championships are held over Super-sprint distances (300 m swim, 5 km bike, 2.5 km run) using a multi-race eliminator format which is unique to that event. The final leg of the overall series is designated and marketed as the Grand Final, and has a greater points allocation, which must be included in the athletes final score ranking for the season along with a fixed number of best other results. In addition,
391-482: The swim will be a mass start in open-water and the cycling will be draft -legal. There is an allowed leniency of 10% on each segment of courses route for the standard and sprint distances, with more discretion being allowed for the mixed relay. The standard distance was also known as the Olympic distance as it was the only distance competed for in the Olympics, however the World Triathlon has tried to enforce
414-616: The use of the name standard distance saving the name Olympic on for official Olympic events. † The athlete won his first title as World Champion under the old world championship system. ‡ The championship was restricted to a single race event due to COVID 19. † The athlete won the title of World Champion under the old world championship system. ‡ The championship was restricted to a single race event due to COVID 19. The World Triathlon Series has visited 27 cities in 19 countries since its founding in 2009. Where GF = Grand Final, MR = Mixed Relay event The final race of each season
437-522: The week of the Grand Final event sees other stand alone World Championship events held, including an elite under-23 event, single-race elite para-triathlon championship events, and a series of non-elite age-grade championships, similar to Gran Fondo World Championships in road cycling and World Athletics Road Running Championships . With the establishment of the International Triathlon Union (ITU, now World Triathlon) in 1989 it
460-646: The women's event). However the points would no longer contribute to an athlete's world series score and only to an athlete's world ranking. BG Group were title sponsors of the series from 2006 to 2008. The World Cup champions are based on the final accumulated point totals as earned in each year's series of World Cup races, with double points awarded for results achieved in the ITU Triathlon World Championship race. The declared champions from 1991 to 2008 are: ITU Triathlon World Championships The World Triathlon Championship Series
483-522: Was carried out as 6 laps of 6.66 km each and the running as 4 laps of 2.5 km each. All times are China Standard Time ( UTC+8 ) A total of 110 triathletes (55 men and 55 women) from 37 nations (men from 31 nations - women from 30 nations) competed at the Beijing Games: Eight National Olympic Committees could have a maximum of three eligible athletes per event, all other NOCs could have
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#1732772755783506-550: Was formerly crowned in the ITU Triathlon World Championship, a single championship race that was held annually from 1989, the same year as the formation of the International Triathlon Union (ITU), to 2008. Triathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics The Triathlon competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics , in Beijing , were held on Monday, August 18 (women) and Tuesday, August 19 (men), on
529-464: Was quickly established that the governing body should host a yearly world championship to establish the men's and women's world champion. With the creation and hosting of the first ITU Triathlon World Championship in 1989 the ITU had established itself and the sports premier event but the sport overall lacked cohesion with races of varying lengths and prize pools, which increased the difficulty for triathletes to train and plan for seasons ahead. So in 1991
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