The Executive Board of World Triathlon has awarded the 2022 Cross Triathlon & Duathlon World Championships to Targu Mures in Romania. The events have been part of the World Triathlon Multisport Festival for the past years and were planned to take place in Townsville, Australia, this year but Australia was not able to organise the Multisport Festival due to current travel restrictions in the region.
The 2022 World Triathlon Multisport Championships Targu Mures are scheduled to take place in the northern hemisphere summer, from June 6-12, 2022.
The Duathlon World Championships will host elite, U23, junior, para triathlon, mixed relay, age group standard and age group sprint distance races, while for the Cross Triathlon elites, U23s, junior, para triathletes and age groupers will vie for world crowns.
In 2021, the Duathlon World Championships were organised in Aviles, Spain, while the Cross Triathlon World Championships took place in El Anillo, Spain, after Almere in the Netherlands was not able to organise these events due to travel restrictions.
“Targu Mures is one of the best places to race in Europe, and we are delighted to go back to Transylvania, this time for the Cross Triathlon and Duathlon World Championships,” said World Triathlon President and IOC member, Marisol Casado.
“For us, having hosts that offer a combination of great experience, dedicated team and welcoming cities is just perfect. I am sure that triathletes, friends and families will feel absolutely at home racing there.”
Targu Mures has experience hosting multisport events, having hosted in 2019 the Multisport European Championships, as well as the Duathlon European Championships in 2021 and 2019. The European Cross Triathlon Championships has been hosted in Targu Mures in 2016, 2017 and 2019.
“It’s a pleasure and honor for our city to be a host of an event with this kind of reputation,” said Zoltán Soós, mayor of Targu Mures city. “We would really like to put back Targu Mures on the sports map of Romania and Europe, and these kind of events truly help us to achieve this.
“This is why we offered and offer continuously our full support to the local organisation committee. These international triathlon events help our community to enjoy and understand the importance of sports, also to improve our region’s tourism.”
In the coming weeks, World Triathlon will announce locations and dates for the other Multisport World Championships.
