Triathlon Mixed Relay
Lindemann brings world champions Germany home for stunning Paris Test Event gold
Welcome to Triathlon Mixed Relay
The Triathlon Team Mixed Relay format showcases racing at its most thrilling, where the individual sport combines with pure team spirit to produce fireworks on the blue carpet!
All four athletes on a team must complete a super-sprint triathlon - 300m swim, approx 6.6km bike and 1km run - before tagging off to a teammate (for the Paris 2024 Olympic cycle, the order is always male-female-male-female).
Among the most exciting aspects of the races for spectators is the athletes’ dramatic sprint and dive after being tagged by their teammate, as well as the intensity and speed from start to finish, with tight, back-and-forth lead changes and team pride the hallmarks of the events.
The very first World Triathlon Triathlon Team Mixed Relay World Championships was held in Des Moines, Iowa, USA in 2009 when the powerful Swiss team claimed the inaugural title. In 2013, the World Championships were hosted in Hamburg for the first time, the German city rapidly becoming the format’s spiritual home and hosting every year since except for Montreal 2022.
The entertaining format was soon embraced around the world and was included in major Games programmes such as the Youth Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games before it was finally announced that Triathlon Mixed Relay would make its Olympic Games debut at Tokyo 2020.
Before then, in 2019, the first ever Team Mixed Relay World Series saw four races take place - in Abu Dhabi, Nottingham, Hamburg and Edmonton. France defended their world title in Hamburg, and went on to win gold at the Tokyo Test Event.
However, it was to be the Great Britain squad that took the first ever Olympic gold, with Jonathan Brownlee, Jessica Learmonth, Alex Yee and Georgia Taylor-Brown combining for glory, USA taking the silver and France the bronze.
Mixed Team Relay explainer
Latest Mixed Team Relay News
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Team France shine on in Sunderland with imperious Mixed Relay gold
There would be no denying Team France yet another Mixed Relay title on Sunday afternoon in Sunderland, even...Jul 30, 2023 -
Teams chasing more Olympic points in Sunderland
Only a couple of weeks after Germany was crowned as the 2023 Mixed Relays World Champion, another 19 teams...Jul 29, 2023 -
Germany land Mixed Relay World title glory in Hamburg, confirm team place at Paris 2024
Sunday afternoon saw Team Germany lift the 2023 Mixed Relay World title at WTCS Hamburg, the first nation to...Jul 16, 2023 -
Teams on the hunt of Olympic spots in Hamburg
The city of Hamburg is interlinked massively with the Mixed Relay format. Since 2013, for seven times the...Jul 15, 2023 -
First Super-Sprint World Championships at heart of packed WTCS Hamburg schedule
After two breathless editions of the format in Montreal in 2021 and 2022, World Triathlon will bring the first...Jul 04, 2023 -
Team Norway wraps remarkable sweep of European Games golds with Mixed Relay win in Krakow
Solveig Lovseth won the individual women’s title on Tuesday, Vetle Bergsvik Thorn the men’s on Wednesday, and...Jul 01, 2023 -
Everything ready in Montreal for the first stage of the Mixed Relay Series
Eighteen teams are ready for the first stop of the Mixd Relay Series that will take place this Sunday in...Jun 23, 2023 -
Team Italy deliver Duathlon Mixed Relay World Championship title in Ibiza
Following up on an agonising relay silver in 2022 and individual fourth place on Saturday, Giorgia Priarone...Apr 30, 2023
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Latest Triathlon Mixed Relay Videos
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