HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 20 (acn) The Ibero-American Triathlon Championships to be held on January 24 and 25 in this city will be attended by Spanish Marisol Casado, president of the International Union of the discipline (ITU).
Casado, also a member of the International Olympic Committee, will arrive on Thursday to Cuba, one day before the official presentation of the event, the press and propaganda department of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation reported.
The contest, which takes place for the first time in Cuba, will host sprint events, consisting of 750 meters of swim, 20 kilometer of bike and 5 km running; medium distance (1.9 km, 90 km and 21 km) and large distance (3.8 km, 180 km and 42 km), the latter with similar dimensions to the Ironman circuit.
For this occasion, the sprint category will grant points to the ranking for qualifying to Toronto 2015 Pan American Games (Canada) and the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016 (Brazil), this event will start and finish at the Hemingway Marina.
Rolando Herrera, member of the National Federation of the discipline, said that there is a contract with ITU for the contest to take place in Cuba for four consecutive years, while it is expected that Havana to host in 2019 one of the stops of the World Circuit, in addition to serve as training base for any athlete of the world.
So far, it is confirmed the participation of 14 women from seven countries and 24 men, from 11 nations, for the sprint event, while in the medium and large distance there are about 180 athletes from 23 nationalities.
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