Wednesday, October 21, 2009
ITU RELEASE: Calendar Announced for 2010 Dextro Energy
Triathlon – ITU World Championship Series
Calendar Announced for 2010 Dextro Energy
Triathlon - ITU World Championship Series
ITU Vancouver,
Canada (October 21, 2009) - The iconic capitals of Sydney,
Seoul and
Budapest
have been added to the Dextro Energy Triathlon - ITU World
Championship
Series
calendar for 2010, joining existing world class events in Madrid,
London,
Kitzbühel and Hamburg.
Marisol Casado, President of ITU, highlights that, "The
series will be staged in three
Olympic cities as well as some of the most
important centres of the world. This is a
major step forward for
our sport."
"Together with our strategic partners SPORTFIVE and
UPSOLUT, we are incredibly
excited by the success of the new series after its
launch in 2009 and are thrilled to be
able to present a top quality calendar of
showcase events for 2010", says Paul Coleman,
Managing Director of the Dextro
Energy Triathlon - ITU World Championships Series.
The season will be kicked off in style on April 11th
with the opening race on the steps
of the renowned Sydney Opera House, mirroring
the first Olympic Games triathlon in
2000. Premier of New South Wales, Nathan
Rees says, "There is no better way to
start the 2010 ITU World Championship than
on the very course where the Olympic
Triathlon was born. This major international
event provides
another opportunity to
showcase Sydney - Australia's only
global city - to the world. And as the best ever
Olympics spectacularly
demonstrated 10 years ago, there is no better finish line in
sport than the
Sydney Opera House." Current women's world
champion Emma
Moffat of Australia
will now have an excellent opportunity to open the defence of her
title on home
soil.
Following Sydney the
series moves north to an exciting new venue in central Seoul,
South Korea,
in early May. The Series then heads to Europe in June stopping in
Madrid, Spain,
who have just come off a strong 2016 Olympic bid, before the athletes
enjoy a
brief rest period leading into an intensive summer. July will see races in the
spectacular venues
of Hamburg, Germany
and London, UK
before the famous alpine
ski resort of Kitzbühel,
Austria hosts
the penultimate event in August.
A successful debut for the London
event staged on the Olympic venue in Hyde Park
in 2009 gave organisers and athletes a first taste of what can be expected at
the
Olympic Games in 2012. Boris Johnson, Mayor of London
announced that, "This
year's Triathlon World Championships, set against the magnificent backdrop that
only London can
offer, were a fabulous success. It is a challenging sport that makes
for a
thrilling event - both for the world-class athletes taking part and the spectators
cheering them on. As we build up to the 2012 Games, London looks forward to
welcoming
this
exciting event again in 2010 and in 2011." The event is sure to deliver
another exciting race as the home spectators will
be able to support the newly
crowned men's world champion Alastair Brownlee.
The Hungarian capital, Budapest,
will host the 2010 Grand Final of
the Dextro Energy Triathlon - ITU World
Championships Series where the world
champions will be crowned. The event will
be held on the weekend of the
11th of September with the course encompassing the
Danube
and much of the city centre. The historic site will provide an
exceptional
backdrop to cap another exciting season. The Under 23 and
Junior World
Championships will also take place in Budapest and the city will provide
the stage
for thousands of international triathletes to compete in the Age Group and
Paratriathlon ITU Triathlon World Championships.
An eighth event is also under review and if added to
the series is likely to take place
in May.
The 2010 ITU Triathlon World Cup calendar will be
released at the beginning
of November.
2010 Dextro Energy Triathlon - ITU World
Championship Series Calendar
April 11 - Sydney,
Australia
May 08-09 - Seoul,
South Korea
June 05-06 - Madrid,
Spain
July 17-18 - Hamburg,
Germany
July 24-25 - London,
United Kingdom
August 14-15 - Kitzbuhel,
Austria
September 11-12 - Budapest,
Hungary (Grand
Final)
Dextro
Energy Triathlon - ITU World Championship Series
The
Dextro Energy Triathlon - ITU World Championship Series is the global triathlon
series at the highest level of the sport. It represents an innovative change by
creating seven first-class World Championship events and a Grand Final rather
than a one-day world championship event. The Series features the world's best
triathletes competing head-to-head in front of over 1million onsite spectators,
and during 40 hours of live international television and 13 international
magazine shows on the world's largest public broadcasters including BBC, ARD,
ZDF, NBC, Ten, CCTV, NHK, MBC, SBS, RTP,TVNZ and TVE. Three million dollars in
prize money will
be at stake in the battle to become triathlon's 2010 world champion.
For more
information, visit: www.triathlon.org/worldchampionshipseries/