Mirroring issues experienced by the men’s Olympic Triathlon in July, the Paris 2024 organising team and World Triathlon have confirmed a revised schedule for the para triathlon events at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
The announcement followed a meeting at 09.30 CEST this morning (August 29) attended by representatives of World Triathlon, Paris 2024 and the relevant French authorities involved in monitoring the conditions of the River Seine.
Individual Paralympic Games triathlon events (swim 750m; para-bike 20km; run 5km) were originally due to take place for men and women on September 1-2, 2024.
All eleven medal events will now take place on September 1, 2024, instead of across two days (September 1-2, 2024). All enquiries regarding tickets will be handled by the Paris 2024 team.
According to World Triathlon…. ‘This decision has been taken to provide athletes and coaches with as much certainty as possible. The latest weather forecast provided by Météo France indicates high levels of uncertainty for the upcoming days, which could have an impact on the conditions of the Seine.’
The course of the swim remains unchanged. All the races on Sunday, September 1st will be broadcasted live, as initially planned for both competition days.
A World Triathlon statement added…. ‘Paris 2024 and World Triathlon will continue their daily monitoring of water quality and the flow of the current. After the successful swim familiarization held on August 29, decisions to go ahead with familiarisation swims on 30 and 31 August, as well as the medal events on 1 September will be taken if possible at 7pm the day before, with the relevant information to be shared with the teams and all relevant stakeholders afterwards. Contingency days for all medal events remain September 2 and 3.’
Revised Paris 2024 para triathlon schedule:
- 08:15:00 Start PTWC1 Men
- 08:18:00 Start PTWC2 Men
- 08:20:00 Start PTWC1 Women
- 08:23:38 Start PTWC2 Women
- 09:25:00 Start PTS3 Men
- 09:30:00 Start PTS2 Men
- 09:35:00 Start PTS2 Women
- 12:00:00 Start PTVI1 Men
- 12:02:41 Start PTVI2/3 Men
- 12:05:00 Start PTVI1 Women
- 12:08:11 Start PTVI2/3 Women
- 12:20:00 Start PTS5 Men
- 12:25:00 Start PTS4 Men
- 12:35:00 Start PTS5 Women
- 12:40:00 Start PTS4 Women
- 14:40:00 Medal ceremonies
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