The Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) will provide an AU$15,000 professional prize purse for The Beach House Hotel Hervey Bay 100 Triathlon on 15th November 2020 in Queensland, Australia.
The event in Australia is the latest event to benefit from a PTO prize fund injection. PTO has recently supported the Great Floridian in the USA, the Sun City Ultra Triathlon in South Africa, the Huntington Triathlon in Indiana, USA, and the Spanish Triathlon Championships.
Two events in the UK – Outlaw X and the Helvellyn Triathlon – also recently received support from PTO. Other prize fund initiatives have benefited events in France, Germany, the USA, Canada and Switzerland.
Charles Adamo, Executive Chairman of PTO said, “PTO Professionals have united around the world to help support local and regional races and our triathlon community. Australia has had some of the most difficult travel restrictions, so we are pleased to have the opportunity to support the Australia triathlon community.
He continued, “It is a tribute to race director Jeff Morris and his team that they are able to host this event. It remains a community event organised solely by volunteers who are passionate about delivering the best triathlon they can, in the best location they know, with the best atmosphere competitors and supporters can create. We are grateful to be a part of it.”
Jeff Morris, Hervey Bay 100 Event Director said, “In the 10th anniversary year for the Hervey Bay 100, the Hervey Bay Triathlon Club is proud to be partnering with the Professional Triathletes Organisation to bring some of the best triathletes in the world to the Fraser Coast. This gives our amazing field of age group athletes the chance to meet some of their idols and race with them on the same course at the same time.”
PTO professional, Amelia Watkinson said, “It has been an honour to work with race director Jeff Morris to provide a racing opportunity for professionals in Australia. Thanks to the PTO we can create opportunities like this, and we are so grateful to have the chance to be a part of Hervey Bay 100 Triathlon and have a race here in Australia. I am looking forward to adding a first place to go with the second placing I took in 2018 in Hervey Bay.”
The Hervey Bay 100 is a picturesque longer course triathlon with 100km of oceanfront racing on a fast, flat course in Hervey Bay, Queensland. Distances include a 2k swim, a 80km cycle and an 18k run.
2020 marks the 10th anniversary of the Hervey Bay 100. The first race in 2011 had 70 athletes competing and was a low-key affair raced on open roads with no prize money on offer. However 10 years on, it has grown into one of the most anticipated races in the Queensland triathlon calendar.
The start list for the men’s race includes Tim Reed, Tim Van Berkel, Steve McKenna and Max Neumann. The female line-up includes Amelia Watkinson, Ellie Salthouse and Meredith Hill.
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