{"id":7532,"date":"2021-03-13T22:08:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T22:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=7532"},"modified":"2021-03-13T22:08:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T22:08:51","slug":"tokyo-2020-olympic-dates-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=7532","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo 2020 Olympic dates announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

The IOC have announced the competition schedule for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, confirming the Men\u2019s Triathlon event will take place on\u00a0Monday 27th July<\/strong>\u00a0and the Women\u2019s race the following day. The highly anticipated Olympic debut of the Triathlon Mixed Relay will take place on\u00a0Saturday 1st August<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The individual races will be disputed over the standard Olympic distances (1.5km swim, 40km bike and 10km run), early morning in the fantastic setting of Odaiba Marine Park. The Mixed Relay teams will bring together two men and two women from the same country, each completing a mini-triathlon before tagging their team mate. The team event also takes place at Odaiba Marine Park, where each of the four athletes will complete a 300m swim, 7.5km bike and 1.5km run.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are extremely satisfied with the dates of our events, following months of hard work taking into consideration all the requirements of the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee and our Sport Department\u201d, said ITU President and IOC member, Marisol Casado.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have agreed competition dates that will fit extremely well into global television schedules, and we are confident of incredible engagement with the spectators, both on-site and watching on TVs around the world. It is perfect that the Mixed Relay, one of the most thrilling and vibrant spectacles in sport, will make its Olympic debut on \u2018Super Saturday\u2019,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Triathlon was first included in the Olympic Games programme at Sydney 2000, but Tokyo 2020 will mark an exciting debut for the Mixed Relay, the added team dynamic certain to capture the imaginations of sports fans around the world. The global profile of triathlon has been increasing consistently year after year and, with one more gold medal ready to be contested, the competition in the land of the rising sun is set to be hotter than ever.<\/p>\n

A total of 110 athletes \u2013 55 men and 55 women \u2013 will compete in Tokyo 2020 triathlon events, with the relay teams being formed of countries with minimum 2 women and 2 men athletes qualified.<\/p>\n

The 30 Olympic\u00a0triathlon medals awarded to date have been split between 13 countries, emphasising the strength of the sport worldwide. The men\u2019s gold has twice been won by Great Britain\u2019s Alistair Brownlee, at London 2012 and Rio 2016, and accompanying him on the podium on both occasions was his brother, Jonathan Brownlee. A bronze medallist in London, the younger of the Brownlee siblings then picked up silver in Rio to complete a famous family one-two.<\/p>\n

And of course British eyes in the lead up will be on the Brownlees with many wondering if Ali could make it three golds in a row\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the women\u2019s event, Swiss athletes have twice taken home the gold, in 2000 and 2012. Of those, Nicola Spirig is the only female triathlete to have won two Olympic medals, taking the gold in an incredibly tight London 2012 finale ahead of Sweden\u2019s Lisa Norden and then the silver at Rio 2016, finishing behind the USA\u2019s Gwen Jorgensen.<\/p>\n

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The Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 will use a total of 42 venues, including 24 existing, ten temporary and eight new permanent venues. These will include three venues in Fukushima, Ibaraki, and Miyagi prefectures, which were among those most affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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The IOC have announced the competition schedule for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, confirming the Men\u2019s Triathlon event will take place on\u00a0Monday 27th July\u00a0and the Women\u2019s race the following day. The highly anticipated Olympic debut of the Triathlon Mixed Relay will take place on\u00a0Saturday 1st August. Advertisement The individual races will be disputed over the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}