Triathlon

 One day in the origin
1973, a group of sports officials gathered in a bar in the Hawaiian Islands dispute: whether the world of sports items which most exciting and challenging; the best test of human will and physical? Some that is football, some say is swimming across the sea, some say is football, there are said to be long-distance cycling, mountain marathon, and so, they expressed their opinions and debated. Finally, the U.S. Navy Commodore John? Collins asked: Who inherent in the choppy sea one day to swim 3.8 km, 180 km bike ride around the island again, and finally run 42.195 km marathon, who is the real iron man. So the next day there are 15 people participated in the competition, one of which a female players. Finally, covered the distance in 14 individual races, so a challenge to nature, to overcome my own new sports project in such a dramatic, risky situations was born. It took the combination of a continuous swim, bike and long-distance running, and Players, speed and skill to provide challenging and comprehensive sports items called A super-long project, and after a long period of development, has a variety of distance triathlon and forms, which are often carried out by the current standard distance for the Olympic Games, namely: 1.5KM swim, 40KM bike and 10KM long-distance running.
1. triathlon swim bike

running a short distance
0.75 公里
20 公里
5 公里
Olympic distance
1.5 公里
40 公里
10 km
long
4 公里
130 公里
30 公里
2. Iron Man Run Bike

running two international standards
from
10 公里40 km
5 公里
long
10 公里
60 公里
10 公里
3.
both land and water running Iron Man run international standard swimming distance
2.5 公里
1 公里
2.5 公里
long
5 公里
2 公里
5 公里
4. Winter Triathlon

mountain bike cross-country ski run
international standard distance
7 公里
15 公里
10 公里
short
3 公里
7 公里
5 公里
Triathlon features :
triathlon is swimming, cycling and long distance is already three years or more with the movement of history combine to create a new sport, he has three sports do not have the characteristics of :
Synthetic: Triathlon is a continuous one time swimming, cycling, distance running a comprehensive sports program;
flexible variability: the venue can be adapted to local conditions, flexible, short or long distances, the project set can be three to two, can take many forms designed to facilitate the promotion;
broad participation: now able to complete the Olympic distance triathlon competition is only 8 years old the youngest players, the largest up to 94 years old. In the competition based on the outstanding group of professional and amateur Age group, make the game that have excellent competitive professional athletes, but also meets the challenges of the majority of the amateur limits on the preferences.
fair competition: triathlon race long difficult, continuity of strong, easy to eliminate interference competition for human factors;
stimulating and challenging: Triathlon is a combination of endurance and perseverance in sports, athletes completed through the competition in the natural and self- challenges and therefore have a strong stimulation and challenge;
spectator: Competition in the outdoors, rain or shine, both set in the coastal city stadium, scenic city, also located in the mountain villages, with a strong ornamental .
Commercial: Triathlon is already rated as the world's most attractive and most commercial value of sports one of the top ten.
Triathlon developments in the international iron man three
Campaign since the early 70s after the birth in Hawaii, already in 1974 in San Diego in the United States began to organize a formal standard competition, followed by the fully reflect the nature of mankind, the spirit to challenge the limits of their own will quickly swept outdoor sports Europe and around the world, and more and more people liking and involvement. International Triathlon Union was established in 1989, the current has grown to 97 countries and regional bodies Member Associations. According to the 2004 International Triathlon Union newsletter released statistics show that currently the world to participate in triathlon training and competition number has reached more than 500 million people each year around the world triathlon event at the size of more than 3,000, of which three are international iron man Union held a variety of approved items from the world-class triathlon and iron man competitions, there are two hundred games or so, but only through the television to watch the World Cup Triathlon World Championships and the audience has already reached more than 1 billion people. from 2000 International Triathlon Union, the annual income has reached about 200 million dollars, of which the funds of pure sponsorship of total revenue in 2000 accounted for about 5% to 0% in 2003 to reach its annual revenue primarily by charging tournament bid management fees, television fees and the provision of audiovisual products available.
Triathlon project its distinctive characteristics and depth of commercial game, participatory, to make an alarming rate around the world to rapidly promotion and development of triathlon can be called in modern Olympic history, from birth to become the fastest growing Olympic sport (only took 27 years) one of the items. and in 1994 was officially included in the initiative to invite the International Olympic Committee Olympic family, the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, the highly anticipated event is the first women's triathlon.
2000 after the Sydney Games, the IOC evaluation said: audience participation game in Sydney's won this battle, this amazing new project sales rate of 99.38% of the ticket. project. triathlon has now become the Olympic Games, Goodwill Games, Pan American Games, Commonwealth Games, World Military Sports General Assembly, the Asian Games and other multi-sports event formal.
annual International Triathlon Union organization a lot of games. including Olympic distance triathlon World Championships; 12-14 around the world organized by the Triathlon World Cup Series points; Long Distance Triathlon World Cup Series; standard Ironman distance and long distance two Item World Cup Series and World Championships, in addition to the winter triathlon, indoor triathlon, triathlon and other disabilities. race normally takes elite athletes group, youth and amateur athlete's age group.