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Marci C.
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Olympic triathlon distances discrepencies

posted 10 months ago | Report

Hi All, I was surfing the blogsphere reading different Olympic distance tri race reports, and noticed that some Olympic events seemed to have different distances. I previously thought that the International distances were
1.5K (.932 mile) swim, 40 K(24.8) bike, and 10K (6.2 mile) run. I have read reports where the event is called Olympic, yet the run is shortened to 5.6 miles, or the bike is 23 miles. I find this a little annoying, since this is supposed to be the benchmarch distance for times (although I know there are so many variable in a tri to consider). Anyone have any explaination or thoughts about this?

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  • Garth F.
    Garth F. Sendmail

    The same seems to be true for sprint tris. The swim is anywhere from 500m to 800m and the bike anywhere betwen 12 and 15 miles. I the it mostly has to do with what authorities will let the race organizers do- eg. Exclusive access to a body of water and closing roads.

    posted 5 months ago

  • Ernesto S.
    Ernesto S. Sendmail

    Olympic distance SHOULD be the 1.5/40/10. I haven't really seen any cut short, but smaller races organized by towns might have to trim it short/longer.

    posted 3 months ago

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