World Triathlon has announced that the 2023 Pontevedra World Triathlon Championship Finals will take place on September 2024 in the northern Spanish city.
After a World Cup event hosted two weeks ago, serving also as a test event, next year world champions will be crowned for elite, U23 and paratriathlon, as well as age-group standard distance, age-group super sprint distance and age-group standard distance aquabike disciplines.
The Championship Finals are positioned as the crown jewels of World Triathlon’s annual calendar. Previous hosts have included cities such as London, Budapest, Beijing, Auckland, Chicago, Gold Coast, Lausanne and Edmonton, with the next destination planned for Abu Dhabi in 2022.
The full calendar of the event will be announced in coming next months, although preparations for the finals have already started in the city.
“Pontevedra has shown multiple times, last time only a few weeks ago, that it has everything in place to host top-level triathlon events,” said World Triathlon President and IOC member, Marisol Casado.
“We are delighted to be returning here for the Championship Finals in 2023. This city has proven to be a fantastic host of multiple sports in the World Triathlon calendar, and I am sure that it will be more than ready to welcome the best triathletes in the world.”
Five time world champion and Pontevedra local hero, Javier Gomez Noya said “I have raced pretty much all the World Triathlon finals, in some of the most incredible cities around the world, but words cannot describe how excited I am that a small town like Pontevedra, my hometown, will be now amongst the top cities to host triathlon events.
“I know the city, I know the organisers and I can promise that we are all ready to host the most important triathlon in the world in 2023.”
