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In the following year, however, another triathlon was held at Fiesta Island, San Diego, California and this is also referred to as the first Triathlon in America.

The race was sponsored by the San Diego Track Club and was the brainchild of Jack Johnson and Don Shanahan, who were both members of the club. The first Modern Triathlon, which included the now customary swim-cycle-run format was held on 25 th September 1974 in Mission Bay, San Diego, California. Similar races were reported in Marseille in 19. All these were done continuously and the participants were not allowed to pause in between two events.

The first Triathlon reported in a newspaper was in 1920, by the French newspaper L’Auto, which reported the “Les Trois Sports”, a contest that included a 3 km run, 12 km cycling and swimming across the Marne channel. There is documented evidence of Triathlons involving running, swimming and cycling from the 1920s to the 1960s. However, the roots of Triathlon are considered to be in a race held in France in the 1920s, which was held during the 1920s to 1930s, annually, near Joinville-le-Pont, in Meulan and Poissy. The first race resembling a modern Sprint Triathlon was held in 1902, which included running, cycling and canoeing. Paratriathlon was first introduced in the 2016 Paralympics. In the Olympic games, the participants had to swim 1500 m, cycle 40 km and run 10 km. The Sprint Triathlon has been a part of the Olympic games since 2000.

#TEAM Z TRIATHLON SERIES#

Currently, the organization conducts the World Cup and World Triathlon Series annually. During its inception, the chief goal of the ITU was to enter the Triathlon in the Olympics. It was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland. The sport is governed by the International Triathlon Union ( ITU), along with Duathlon, Aquathlon, and other multi-sport events. As such, athletes have to be very nifty in managing time both during the events and during the transition. The Triathlon is an amazing display of tenacity and endurance, because, unlike other multisport competitions, there is no rest time in between events here, even the transition from one event to the other is taken into consideration and the time involved is counted in the total race. A transition area is available for both T1 and T2, where the athletes switch from one event to the other. The third part is cycling and after that comes the T2, which is the transition from Bike to Running. Then there is a transition from swimming to cycling, which is known as T1 – it includes coming out of the swimwear and slipping into the cycling gear. The athlete starts with a swim, the first event. The word Triathlon is derived from the Greek words ‘ treis’, which means three, and ‘ athlos’, which means competition. The sprint triathlon is a race which includes swimming, cycling and running for predefined individual distances sequentially. There are various kinds of Triathlons, like Cross Triathlon, Water Triathlon, the Sprint Triathlon, to name a few. A triathlon is a race that generally involves three events.

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