Taldykorgan will host the national triathlon tournament for the first time!

On May 21-22, a historical triathlon tournament of the republican level will be held for the first time in Taldykorgan. These days, more than 150 professionals and amateur athletes will gather in the center of the Zhetysu region.

On the first event day, Elite, U23, U19 and U17 categories will enter the start line, who will race for the ranking points of the second stage of the Open National Triathlon Cup. After that, the first Paratriathlon Championship of the Republic of Kazakhstan among visually impaired athletes will take place, who will conquer the sprint distance, consisting of 750 m of swimming, 20 km of cycling and 5 km of running.

On the second day, the TEMIRADAM Cup II stage will take place, in which Pro and Age Group categories will compete. They will experience the Pyramid for the first time, continuously covering 2 km running, 8 km cycling, 300 m swimming, 8 km cycling and 2 km running.

The goals of the competition are:

• identification of the strongest athletes;

• improving the level of skill and qualification of Kazakhstani professional athletes;

• advanced training of Kazakh judges and technical delegates in triathlon;

• development of triathlon and promotion of a healthy lifestyle in Kazakhstan.

Date: May 21-22, 2022

Location: Taldykorgan city, city Beach

Start time: 09.00

Medal ceremony: 11.30

Head technical official: Mikhail Kuznetsov (Kazakhstan)

 

Organizers: State Enterprise "Directorate of Sports Development" of the Committee for Sports and Physical Culture of the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Jetisu regional Department of Physical Culture and Sports, NGO "Kazakhstan Triathlon Federation".

The events are held with the support of the general partner - the ERG Group and Unix LLP with the Tassay trademark.

Information support: Qazsport, Tengrinews.kz, Vesti.kz and WeProject.Media.

Reference Information

Triathlon is a sport that is a multi-sport race, consisting of a continuous successive passage by participants of three stages: swimming, cycling and running, each of which comes from an independent cyclic sport.

Internationally, Olympic triathlon is governed by the World Triathlon.

NGO "Kazakhstan Federation of Triathlon"

010000, Nur-Sultan, Esil district, Kabanbay batyr avenue, 53

info@triathlon.org.kz, media@triathlon.org.kz

+7 777 306 77 11

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