PTO scream launch of T100 Triathlon World Tour as eight-cease 2024 calendar launched
The Official Triathletes Organisation (PTO) have lastly launched their beefy calendar for the newly launched T100 Triathlon World Tour, a flee sequence that will likely be flee in collaboration with World Triathlon.
The eight-cease sequence will hurry to some continents and soak up some of the crucial world’s most iconic cities similar to Miami, London and Dubai with a world line-up of 40 main official triathletes gotten smaller to flee this season.
High athletes similar to IRONMAN World Champions Lucy Charles-Barclay and Sam Laidlow are dwelling to flee the sequence, as properly as to about a of the largest names in the sport worship two-time Olympic Champion Alistair Brownlee.
The 2024 T100 Triathlon World Tour Calendar
This yr, the sequence will commence up in Miami on March 9 and enact with the Huge Final at a soon-to-be launched Heart East field at the give up of November, the establish the ladies and men’s world champion will likely be topped.
The T100 Triathlon World Tour entails the next races:
- 9-10 March – Miami T100
- 13-14 April – Singapore T100
- June TBA – California T100
- 27-28 July – London T100
- 28-29 Sept – Ibiza T100
- 19-20 Oct – Lake Las Vegas T100
- 16-17 Nov – Dubai T100
- 29-30 Nov – Huge Final – field to be launched soon
The gotten smaller athletes will compete in at the least five races as properly as the Huge Final. Out of the 40 athletes awarded these contracts, 32 were all the style down to their PTO World Score in 2023 and an further eight got to athletes with enormous previous results or future capability.
The PTO and World Triathlon will also award particular particular person wildcards for every match, with gotten smaller athletes who are dwelling to qualify for the Olympics being afforded reduced racing obligations.
“A extremely effective label as properly as a definite layout”
The evolution of the PTO Tour to the T100 Triathlon World Tour follows the PTO’s partnership agreement with World Triathlon in August 2023, which granted it the title of “the legitimate World Championship tour of lengthy distance triathlon”.
PTO CEO Sam Renouf said that now used to be the exact time to rebrand the Tour, as the organisation aimed to elevate triathlon into the mainstream with contemporary alternatives for all people in the sport.
“This used to be the exact 2d for us to introduce a more particular person facing label. As we’ve developed the races and the published product through the last three years, we’ve persevered to be wide awake of suggestions from all events, together with our broadcast partners, the media, followers and, useless to instruct, the athletes who co-maintain the organisation.
“It used to be obvious that we wanted to be more particular about this being a triathlon world tour as properly as hero the thrilling 100km distance, which continues to do us out and elevate compelling racing.
“With races being is known as the Singapore T100 or Ibiza T100, we think this might per chance occasionally serve do T100 as each a extremely effective label as properly as a definite layout.
“This can make more alternatives to design contemporary host cities, industrial sponsors and uncover amateurs and mass individuals who we are going to likely be performing at every of our stops this yr.”
Huge recordsdata for amateur racers
Alongside the official tour, amateurs might per chance well perchance perchance have the different to flee at six of the T100 Triathlon World Tour phases in 2024, together with: Singapore, London, Ibiza, Lake Las Vegas, Dubai and the Huge Final.
In partnership with World Triathlon, obvious phases will feature championship designations with the likelihood to signify your country under the membership of the athlete’s respective National Federation.
“Next level racing and a ‘most major match atmosphere’ were two of the things the 6,000 amateur athletes who took phase in Singapore closing yr called out,” said Renouf.
“So, alongside the official races we’ll be running mass participation alternatives at loads of the events. Registration is originate on the PTO online online page and we gape forward to welcoming all these that want to bag alive to.”
