The ITU Executive Board recently confirmed candidates for vacant seats within ITU committees. In accordance with ITU’s constitution, committees must be made up of at least one member of the opposite gender. With several female candidates interested in the committees, the ITU Executive Board voted to allow two members of the opposite gender to participate on committees, while only one will have voting privileges. The newly appointed members will serve on the committees until the next ITU Congress, at which point the positions will be open for re-election.
Women’s Committee
Leroy Cooke (JAM)
Bernard Hanratty (IRL)
Multisport Committee
Nezha Bidouane (MAR)
Melody Tan (MAS)
Medical & Antidoping Committee
Angela Pedro (POR)
Dr Jaquelin Ofelia Rives Santi (CUB)
Coaches’ Committee
Claudia Beristain (MEX)
Kate Roberts (RSA)
The full list of committee members can be found online.
In addition to voting on committee members, the ITU Executive Board approved the Athlete’s Agreement, which can also be found online. Various changes were made to the agreement, with input from National Federations and the Athletes’ Committee to reflect benefits for athletes.
The ITU Board also accepted a proposal to update rankings to paratriathlon and multisport events.
For paratriathlon races, points from events held prior to 1 January 2017 will be calculated according to the 2016 version of the ITU Paratriathlon Points Lists Criteria, with athletes scoring based on the class in which they competed at the time of the event with exception for athletes now competing in the PTS4 class. For those athletes who originally competed in the PT4 class and are now in the PTS4 class, the points earned at those events held prior to 1 January 2017 will be multiplied by 1.5.
At ITU Multisport events in the discplines of duathlon, long distance triathlon and winter triathlon, points from events held prior to 1 January 2017 will be calculated according to the 2016 version of the ITU Duathlon Points List Criteria, and the points earned at those events will be divided by 2.
