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USA Triathlon Adds Intellectual Impairment Category for Athletes at Zone3 Youth and Junior Nationals
In addition, as part of USA Triathlon’s 2022 Return to Racing Youth Stimulus Package, race entry is free for all 15-19 year-old athletes at the Toyota Legacy Triathlon July 15-17 in Long Beach, California. USA Triathlon is also hosting a free Youth Splash & Dash at the Toyota USA Triathlon Age Group National Championships Aug. 5-7 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The 2022 USA Triathlon Club National Championships will be run as part of the PTO US Open age-group event, with athletes wishing to be part of the club championships simply selecting their club during the registration process. The PTO US Open will also host the $1M pro race, set to feature 80 of the top professionals in the PTO World Rankings plus 10 wildcard performers, and which will be the climax to the first-ever PTO Tour season.
The event at the proposed site of the triathlon competitions for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Los Angeles 2028 includes the Toyota USA Triathlon Paratriathlon National Championships and Americas Cup Long Beach.
The U.S. has long had international success in the Mixed Relay event — winning silver at the 2020 Mixed Relay World Championships, bronze in 2018, silver in 2017 and the world title in 2016. The U.S. elite team also won silver at last summer’s Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 in the Mixed Relay’s Olympic Games debut.
U.S. elite triathletes Summer Rappaport (Thornton, Colo.) and Taylor Spivey (Redondo Beach, Calif.) placed fifth and sixth, respectively, at Saturday’s World Triathlon Championship Series Montreal, which featured the unique and exciting “eliminator” format of super-sprint racing.
U.S. Junior triathlete Reese Vannerson (Sugar Land, Texas) earned the bronze medal on Friday at the 2022 World Triathlon Junior World Championships and four elite U.S. triathletes advanced to Saturday’s finals of the World Triathlon Championship Series Montreal on the first of three action-packed days of elite, Junior and age group racing in Montreal.
An action-packed weekend of racing featuring elite triathletes, Juniors and age group triathletes is ahead at the 2022 World Triathlon Sprint & Relay Championships Montreal and World Triathlon Championship Series Montreal. The third stop in 2022 of the 2022 World Triathlon Championship Series, the World Triathlon Championship Series Montreal features super-sprint distance racing spanned over two days as seven U.S. elite triathletes will compete in the unique “eliminator” format that made its debut on the World Triathlon circuit last year.
USA Triathlon has long had a tradition of promoting women in multisport, including equal prize money for elite events, the formation of the USA Triathlon Women’s Committee in 2010 and February’s landmark achievement of adding the 40th school in the nation to offer women’s triathlon at the varsity level, which set in motion women’s triathlon to become an NCAA Championship sport.
It was a race weekend of firsts for many of the younger U.S. athletes as many were also racing in their first World Triathlon Cup, such as Madisen Lavin.