The Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) and World Triathlon have this week announced that the T100 Triathlon World Championship Final will take place in Dubai, UAE, on November 16-17, 2024.
Originally unveiled in February, the T100 Triathlon World Tour was due to feature eight races in 2024, featuring 40 of the world’s highest ranked athletes. The eighth race was to be at the end of November at an undisclosed location.
The T100 Triathlon World Tour has now instead been trimmed to a seven-event series. The final, seventh, event in the series – Dubai T100 – will now be the final stop in the 2024 T100 Triathlon World Tour calendar for its inaugural season.
“It has always been our ambition to crown our first T100 Triathlon World Champions in a spectacular race at an iconic location,” said PTO CEO Sam Renouf.
“Given the huge interest we’ve seen in Dubai from both the local and international triathlon community, we have decided that Dubai will give the first year of the T100 Triathlon World Tour the series finale it deserves.
“Dubai will be our largest event of the year, with over 10,000 participants set to compete across a range of distances and individual disciplines. Combining that scale with the stunning backdrop of Meydan racecourse and the Dubai skyline, means we’ll be finishing our inaugural year with a bang.”
He continued, “While we originally planned for an eight-race series in 2024 and had been exploring some exciting potential venues, a combination of lining up all the approvals and those locations not being quite ready to hold an event befitting the T100 Triathlon World Championship Final made the decision to move the final to Dubai an easy one in the end.”
The Dubai T100 Triathlon World Championship Final will be an integral part of the month-long 2024 Dubai Fitness Challenge, a city-wide initiative that challenges residents and tourists to commit to 30 minutes of daily activity for 30 days, to help kick-start long-term healthy habits.
The Dubai Fitness Challenge has become a significant part of the city’s fitness culture over recent years, and is positioned as a gateway to a more active, fitter future, inspiring thousands to take up new activities, improve their health, and connect with others through shared fitness goals.
In addition to crowning the first T100 World Champions, which are officially recognised by the sports international governing body, World Triathlon, the Dubai T100 Triathlon World Championship Final will determine the final split of the US$7 million prize fund, with US$250K being awarded at the race, and a further US$2 million for the season-long competition.
Marisol Casado, World Triathlon President and IOC Member, said “We are proud to have partnered with the Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) to launch this new series, and to see the highest level of long distance racing in an officially sanctioned World Championship Tour, in the same way the World Triathlon Championship Series supports standard distance triathlon. Dubai is set to be a fantastic conclusion to the series.”
PTO Chairman Chris Kermode added “One of the key tenets of the T100 Triathlon World Tour was to evolve triathlon by bringing a season-long narrative to the sport.
“This is based on the simple premise behind all sports – fans want to see the best of the best competing, consistently, throughout the year. We are delighted that the T100 has delivered this for triathlon in our inaugural season and will be announcing 2025 calendar dates very soon.”
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