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2016. 2020. 2024. 2028. Medalists. Triathlon had its Summer Olympics debut at the 2000 Games, in Sydney, when men's and women's individual events were first held, and has been contested since then. In 2021, at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics a mixed team relay event was held for the first time. The sport, and its Olympic events, are governed ...
The Olympic triathlon contains three components; a 1.5 km (0.93 mi) swim, 40 km (25 mi) cycle, and a 10 km (6.2 mi) run. [3] The competitions take the form of a single event between all competitors with no heats. The new mixed team event features teams of four (two men and two women).
v. t. e. The men's triathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place at the Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo on 26 July 2021. [1] The race began with a false start, as a media boat blocked about a third of the field from entering the water. [2] After the restart, the field remained close together coming out of the water.
The International Triathlon Union (now known as World Triathlon) was founded in 1989 as the international governing body of the sport, with the chief goal, at that time, of putting triathlon on the Olympic program. [33] The World Triathlon sanctions and organises the World Triathlon Series and the World Triathlon Cup races each year, with ...
Sports periodization. Periodization is a cyclical method of planning and managing athletic or physical training and involves progressive cycling of various aspects of a training program during a specific period. [1][2] Conditioning programs can use periodization to break up the training program into the off-season, preseason, inseason, and the ...
She has been named USA Triathlon's 2013 and 2014 Olympic/ITU Female Athlete of the Year. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She was a member of the 2012 Olympic Team and again represented the United States in triathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics , where she won the USA's first ever triathlon gold medal with a time of 1 hour, 56 minutes, and 16 seconds.
t. e. The triathlon competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris ran from 31 July to 5 August at Pont Alexandre III, featuring a total of 110 athletes who were to compete in each of the men's and women's events. [1][2] After a successful debut at the 2020 Summer Olympics, the mixed relay competition will remain in the triathlon program for ...
Individual. 2021. Individual. Taylor Knibb (born February 14, 1998) is an American triathlete and the 2022 and 2023 Women's Ironman 70.3 World Champion. [1][2] She competed in the women's event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo in 2021, finishing sixteenth. [3] Later that same Olympics, she won a silver medal in the mixed relay event. [4]