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Triathlon – Mixed relay at ... Competitors: 40 from 10 nations: Winning time: 1:20:34: Medalists ... Results. 10 nations were scheduled to compete. [2] Rank Nation ...
Australian John Maclean was the first physically challenged athlete to complete the event under the cut-off time. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Because of the COVID-19 pandemic , the 2020 Ironman World Championship was initially postponed to February 2021 and then canceled with that year's qualifiers able to defer to race in 2021 or 2022. [ 5 ]
The championship was organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) and was the culmination of the Ironman 70.3 series of events that occurred from August 19, 2012 through August 11, 2013. Athletes, both professional and amateur, earned a spot in the championship race by qualifying in races throughout the 70.3 series.
The World Triathlon Championship Series 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.
After competing and losing in the Ironman Triathlon Championships six times (often to Dave Scott), Allen emerged victorious in 1989, winning one of the most difficult one-day sporting events in the world. This was the first of six Ironman victories for Allen, the last coming in 1995 at age 37, making him the oldest winner of the event at that time.
Sanders went on to Ironman Arizona finishing with a time under 8 hours to take his first official full distance victory (a year before he won Ironman Florida, however the swim was cancelled). [citation needed] On November 20, 2016, Sanders set a new world record for the full distance triathlon at Ironman Arizona, with a winning time of 7:44:29.
The 2023 World Triathlon Championship Series was the 15th season of the World Triathlon Championship Series, the top level international series for triathlon, since its establishment in 2009, and crowned the 35th official World Triathlon Champion for both men and women since the first was crowned in 1989.
The 2007 Ironman 70.3 Series featured 23 events that enabled qualification to the 2007 World Championship event. [4] In the second year of WTC's 70.3 race series the number of races increased as the series expanded outside of North America with new events such as those in Austria, Germany, Monaco, Singapore, and Switzerland.