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2016 National Championship Schedule...

Monday, 12 October 2015 00:10

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — USA Triathlon today announced the dates and locations for nearly all the events that will comprise the 2016 USA Triathlon National Championships schedule, allowing top amateur multisport athletes to compete for national titles, and in some cases world championship team spots, at high-level events across the country.

The season begins on Jan. 31 in St. Paul, Minnesota, with the Winter Triathlon National Championships, held in conjunction with the King Boreas Winter Triathlon, and ends Nov. 13 with the Long Course Triathlon and Aquabike National Championships, which will take place in Miami, Florida, as part of the MiamiMan Triathlon.

USA Triathlon Collegiate Club National Championships will return to Clemson, South Carolina, on April 22-23. The event will feature a different course from last year, with collegiate athletes representing an estimated 120-plus clubs competing for the overall title based on points earned in three championship races: a 750-meter swim, ...

20-kilometer bike, 5-kilometer run draft-legal sprint, the traditional 1,500m swim, 40k bike, 10k run championship and the four-person Mixed Team Relay, in which athletes will complete a 250m swim, 5k bike and 1.2k run.

Duathlon Nationals will head west in 2016 and 2017 to Bend, Oregon, with the 2016 edition set for June 25. The nation’s best run-bike-run athletes will have the option of a standard-distance and a sprint-distance race, and more information on draft-legal and non-draft options will be made available soon. Top finishers in each age group will earn a spot to represent Team USA in the duathlon event at the 2017 ITU Multisport World Championships Festival, held in Penticton, British Columbia, with specific details to be confirmed at a later date.

USA Triathlon’s longest-running National Championships event, Age Group Nationals, also moves to a new location in 2016 — Omaha, Nebraska. The two-day event features the Olympic-Distance National Championships on Saturday, Aug. 13, with athletes competing on a 1,500m swim, 40k bike, 10k run course, and the Sprint National Championships, a 750m swim, 20k bike, 5k run race, on Sunday, Aug. 14. Both events will be a non-draft format. The two-year stint in Omaha will see action centered at Carter Lake for the event, which has grown nearly 250 percent in the number of registered participants since 2010. Top finishers will qualify for Team USA in the 2017 ITU World Championships, part of the ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Rotterdam in the Netherlands. READ MORE