Get the diaries ready - the 2022 World Triathlon season is set to be stacked full of blue-carpet action and entertainment once again.
The Executive Board of World Triathlon has approved the first events of the 2022 season, with classic World Triathlon cities returning as hosts and some exciting new names added to the list. The new season of the World Triathlon Championship Series will finish with the Championship Finals in Abu Dhabi, with five stops added to next year’s calendar plus the two races in 2021. Eleven World Triathlon Cups are already planned and Andorra will return as host of the World Triathlon Winter Championships.
Unfortunately Bermuda does not appear on the first WTS events of the 2022 season.
The five events confirmed as part of the 2022 World Triathlon Championship Series - after Hamburg launched the new season in September and with Abu Dhabi hosting the last leg of the top tier event in November - start in familiar fashion: The best in the world will get the year underway once again over the Olympic distance in Yokohama in May, June will see them return to Leeds’ Roundhay Park for a new sprint-distance challenge, then it is on to Montreal for the second edition of the new fast and furious, two-day elimination format.
Hamburg (sprint distance) will again host in July, while the central Chinese city of Chengdu steps up to host an Olympic-distance World Triathlon Championship Series event for the first time in October.
2022 will see two World Triathlon Championships awarding the sport’s most prestigious prizes, with Abu Dhabi crowning the World Triathlon and Para Triathlon Champions, while the Montreal weekend will see the Sprint and Relay World titles awarded.
2022 World Triathlon Championship Series:
September 2021 - Hamburg, GER November 2021 - Abu Dhabi, UAE 14-15 May 2022 - Yokohama, JPN 11-12 June 2022 - Leeds, GBR 25-26 June 2022 - Montreal, CAN 09-10 July 2022 - Hamburg, GER 22-23 October 2022 - Chengdu, CHN Abu Dhabi, UAE (Championship Series Final)
Mixed Relay:
11-12 June 2022 - Leeds, UK 25-26 June 2022 - Montreal, CAN – World Championships 09-10 July 2022 - Hamburg, GER
World Triathlon Cup:
12-13 March 2022 - Miyazaki, JPN 30 April - 1 May 2022 - Haeundae KOR 7-8 May 2022 - Osaka, JPN 28-29 May 2022 - Arzachena, ITA 18-19 June 2022 - Huatulco, MEX 27-28 August 2022 - Bergen, NOR 3-4 September 2022 - Valencia, ESP 10-11 September 2022 - Karlovy Vary, CZE 24-25 September 2022 - Weihai, CHN 01-02 October 2022 - Tongyeong, KOR 29-30 October 2022 - Miyazaki, JPN
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