World Triathlon

The stage is set for triathlon to hit the Paris 2024 headlines again at 8am on 5 August, when the second ever Olympic Mixed Relay takes to the streets of the City of Light.

Added to the Olympic programme for the first time at Tokyo 2020, the Mixed Relay World Championships stretching back to 2009 when Switzerland won the first of their two titles, the format’s de facto home established as the WTCS Hamburg weekend.

Team GB are the defending Olympic Champions. Team Germany are the reigning champions of the world. France have won five titles since 2015. The medal contenders for Paris 2024 run far deeper than those three nations.

After the exertions of battling against not just each other but the Seine River current in the individual race, the athletes will be glad to face just a one-lap, 300m swim to get each leg underway.

At 8am, the 16 qualified teams will line up on the pontoon under the Alexandre III bridge, the men going out first. The 300m swim complete – with the current out, against back – it is up the 36 steps onto the bridge where transition awaits.

From there, it’s a flat and full-on 7km bike, split into two laps, traversing the river and the crowd-lined transition twice on each and passing down the Champs Elysees and Saint Germain Boulevard.

Bikes racked in T2, the run is a simple square across Alexandre III bridge, along to Invalides bridge and back twice, 900m per loop. The second time, the athletes will peel off the road early and down the snaking ramp beside the Seine to tag their teammate.

Four legs, 3 medals, one Olympic champion team. It’s going to get rowdy out there in the French capital from 8am local time on Monday 5 August. Check local listings for where to watch live.