{"id":8229,"date":"2021-05-07T17:49:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T17:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=8229"},"modified":"2021-05-07T17:49:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T17:49:40","slug":"2016-world-triathlon-series-calendar-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=8229","title":{"rendered":"2016 World Triathlon Series calendar confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p ><strong>Details are confirmed for the 2016 World Triathlon Series, with governing body the ITU revealing that WTS Yokohama will offer the last chance to score Olympic Qualification Points for Rio 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p >The 2016 series will stop in nine cities across five continents, with six races featuring Olympic distance races, and three events offering sprints.<\/p>\n<p >Hamburg will serve as the final WTS event before the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, which start on August 5, and will also host the Mixed Relay World Championships.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div    >\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p  style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Mario Mola, Vincent Luis and Richard Murray on the run at WTS Abu Dhabi 2015<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.footballtracksuit.com\/international-football-tracksuit.html' title='International football tracksuit'>International football tracksuit<\/a><\/p>\n<p >The season starts in Abu Dhabi next March, and concludes in Cozumel, Mexico with the Grand Final in September \u2013 but not before heading to Roundhay Park in Leeds for the UK leg in June. Also missing from next year\u2019s line-up are Auckland and Chicago:<\/p>\n<p>2016 World Triathlon Series<\/p>\n<p >Abu Dhabi, UAE \u2013 March 4-5 \u2013 Olympic<br \/>Gold Coast, Australia \u2013 April 9-10 \u2013 Olympic<br \/>Cape Town, South Africa\u2013 April 23-24 \u2013 Sprint<br \/>Yokohama, Japan \u2013 May 14-15 \u2013 Olympic<br \/>Leeds, England \u2013 June 11-12 \u2013 Olympic<br \/>Stockholm, Sweden \u2013 July 2-3 \u2013 Olympic<br \/>Hamburg, Germany \u2013 July 16-17 \u2013 Sprint<br \/>Edmonton, Canada \u2013 September 3-4 \u2013 Sprint<br \/>Cozumel, Mexico \u2013 September 11-18 \u2013 Olympic<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p  style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>GB paratriathletes on a training ride in Lanzarote<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p >Paratriathlon was accepted into the Paralympic Games in 2010 and will make its Paralympic debut in Rio 2016: British hopes run high with potential medal-winners across many categories, as demonstrated by Team GB\u2019s strong performances at the ETU European Champs in Geneva last weekend.<\/p>\n<p >For more info on the World Triathlon Series head to www.triathlon.org.<\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p >(Images: Janos Schmidt)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details are confirmed for the 2016 World Triathlon Series, with governing body the ITU revealing that WTS Yokohama will offer the last chance to score Olympic Qualification Points for Rio 2016. Advertisement The 2016 series will stop in nine cities across five continents, with six races featuring Olympic distance races, and three events offering sprints&#8230;.<\/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-8229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229","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=8229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}