The Legitimate Triathletes Organisation (PTO) and World Triathlon maintain nowadays launched the T100 Triathlon World Championship Final will preserve shut set up in Dubai on 16-17 november and complete the 2024 T100 Triathlon World Tour calendar for its inaugural season.
“It has always been our ambition to crown our first T100 Triathlon World Champions in a spectacular dawdle at an iconic arrangement. Given the huge interest we’ve seen in Dubai from both the local and world triathlon community, we maintain decided that Dubai will give the essential yr of the T100 Triathlon World Tour the series finale it deserves,” explained PTO CEO Sam Renouf. “Dubai will most likely be our largest occasion of the yr, with over 10,000 participants set up to compete all over a fluctuate of distances and individual disciplines. Combining that scale with the sexy backdrop of Meydan racecourse and the Dubai skyline, come we’ll be ending our inaugural yr with a bang.”
“Whereas we within the start planned for an eight-dawdle series in 2024 and had been exploring some nice looking doable venues, a aggregate of lining up your total approvals and those locations no longer being quite fascinating to abet an occasion befitting the T100 Triathlon World Championship Final made the choice to hotfoot the closing to Dubai an effortless one within the pause.”
The Dubai T100 Triathlon World Championship Final will most likely be an integral fragment of the month-long 2024 Dubai Correctly being Venture, a metropolis-large initiative that challenges residents and vacationers to determine to Half-hour of daily insist for 30 days, to motivate kick-start long-term wholesome habits. The Dubai Correctly being Venture has develop into a principal fragment of the metropolis’s fitness culture over newest years, and a gateway to a more energetic, fitter future, appealing thousands to absorb original actions, increase their smartly being, and connect with others via shared fitness objectives.
To boot to crowning the essential T100 World Champions, which might perhaps perhaps well be formally recognised by the sports actions world governing physique, World Triathlon, the Dubai T100 Triathlon World Championship Final will resolve the closing split of the report $7 million USD prize fund, with $250k being awarded on the dawdle, and an additional $2 million for the season-long opponents.
“We are proud to maintain partnered with the Legitimate Triathletes Organisation (PTO) to originate this original series, and to be conscious the ideal level of long distance racing in an formally sanctioned World Championship Tour, within the same manner the World Triathlon Championship Series supports customary distance Triathlon,” commented Marisol Casado, World Triathlon President and IOC Member. “Dubai is set up to be a cultured conclusion to the series.”
“One of many essential tenets of the T100 Triathlon World Tour was once to conform Triathlon by bringing a season-long fable to the game,” added PTO Chairman Chris Kermode. “This is basically based mostly on the easy premise within the attend of all sports actions – fans wish to be conscious the handiest of the handiest competing, persistently, throughout the yr. We are contented that the T100 has delivered this for Triathlon in our inaugural season and might perhaps perhaps well peaceful be announcing 2025 calendar dates very rapidly.”
