NATIONAL FEDERATION SERVICES UPDATE

NATIONAL FEDERATION SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENT
Continuing with the National Federations Open Hours, World Triathlon is pleased to announce a change of the day of the third edition of this initiative: Tuesday 20 June at 09:30h CEST and Thursday 22 June at 16:30h CEST. Please note that the ENG & FRA session was initially planned for Wednesday 21 June (as in all other Open Hours) but we were forced to a change to Tuesday due to agenda clashes. The theme for the meeting will be Good Governance. As in previous editions, we will have two versions of the meeting, one in English with translation to French (on Tuesday) and a second one in English with translation to Spanish (on Thursday).

The sessions will showcase a group discussions with National Federations and also keynote speakers, where you can have the opportunity to share the experiences of your National Federation in relation to good governance. You will receive further information and the link for registration in the coming days. Meanwhile, we are all really looking forward seeing you in the third edition of the NFs Open Hours!
- TUESDAY 20 June, 9:30-11:00 CEST - EN&FR
- THURSDAY 22 June, 16:30-18:00 CEST - EN&SP

All relevant ppt and webinar recordings, of previous NF Open Hours, can be found online here. World Triathlon thanks all National Federations who fulfilled membership obligations for 2023 and remain in Good Standing with World Triathlon. The current status of the National Federations can be found here.

ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT
World Triathlon launches the 2023 Athlete Scholarship Programme
World Triathlon is proud to announce the opening of applications for the 2023 Athlete Scholarship Programme, meant to identify and provide support, resources and expertise to those athletes from developing/emerging National Federations (NF Groups*: 2, 3B, 3A) with the greatest needs to help them compete at Continental and World level.

The programme started 27 May 2023 and will run over the second year of the Olympic Qualification Period and help their preparation and qualification for the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic Games and beyond. Read more.
Team Europe kicks off the season in Poland
Out of a total of 215 participants in the 2023 Europe Triathlon Cup Olsztyn and 2023 Europe Triathlon Cup Olsztyn, 29 athletes from developing countries took part in the events. As part of the Team Europe development initiative eight athletes from four nations (Finland, Latvia, Romania and Turkey) received support to race in Olsztyn. Artjoms Gajevskis from Latvia scored the best race result along his fellow athletes. The next Team Europe project will be in Wels, Austria.

TECHNICAL OFFICIALS EDUCATION
A range of Technical Officials and Coach courses and seminars were staged across the month of May:
2023 Phnom Penh World Triathlon Technical Officials Level 1 Seminar
2023 Bridgetown World Triathlon Technical Officials Level 1 Seminar
2023 Sharm El Sheikh World Triathlon Technical Officials Level 1 Seminar
Read all about the education initiatives that took place in May.

COACH EDUCATION AND OLYMPIC SOLIDARITY
The IOC Olympic Solidarity funded technical course for coaches on 8-12 May, 2023 Port Loko OS - World Triathlon Coaches Level 1 Course, which was staged the day after the 2023 Duathlon National Championships) had 16 coach candidates from various regions of Sierra Leone. As some of attendees competed in the National Championships and others were spectators, it presented a fantastic opportunity to discuss aspects of event organisation as well. The theoretical and practical sessions throughout five long and busy days were really challenging for participants, but the enthusiastic group was holding on and did their best to learn and practice coaching. Facilitators, Istvan Jankov (HUN) and Mahdi Mnif (TUN), were paying extra attention to try and help all candidates with their progress on the World Triathlon Education & Knowledge HUB. On the closing day, all participants were awarded World Triathlon Activator Certificates and they are working on post-course tasks now in order to earn Level 1 recognition.

“The coaches were motivated and eager to learn about triathlon despite the issue with their login for the education hub. It was a great learning experience for everyone. We are eager to see them transforming their knowledge into practice.“ said Mahdi Mnif (TUN), facilitator.

PARA TRIATHLON
Barbados hosts development projects around 2023 World Triathlon Development Regional Cup Bridgetown
From 2-6 May 2023, the Barbados Federation of Island Triathletes hosted the 2023 Bridgetown Americas Triathlon World Triathlon Development Camp, followed by a Technical Officials’ Level 1 Seminar, as the sport’s growth in the Caribbean took centre stage this month. The seminar covered a range of TO operational topics, from athlete conduct to appeals, start procedures and doping control, and was wrapped up with an open book exam for the participants. Read more.

World Triathlon is proud to announce the Para triathlon support grants for 2023, to offer financial assistance to Para triathletes to prepare and attend World Triathlon sanctioned Para events in order to gain Olympic Qualification points on the way to 2024 Paris.
The target group will be Para triathletes from National Federations who did not have medallists* at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo and their National Federations belong to National Federation Group 2, 3B, 3A, 4 (As per National Federation Survey 2021, more details are here).

Para triathletes who have already shown competence at a Continental and/or World level and are looking to make the step up to top-level training and racing but need the support to do so. These Para athletes should be seen as Paralympic prospects (Paris 2024, LA 2028) by their National Federations. World Triathlon may consider direct application from Para athletes with refugee status or from their host federation. These cases will be directly managed by TRI and the athlete after approving their refugee status.
The list of National Federations eligible for these Grants are:

PLEASE NOTE: All applications MUST be submitted and endorsed by the respective National Federation of the applicant. The National Federation must be in good standing with World Triathlon.
The online applications should be submitted no later than Friday 23 June 2023 (CEST). Successful applicants will be informed the following week.

For more information on the World Para Triathlete Support Grant please contact Eric Angstadt, Sr. Manager Para Triathlon at eric.angstadt@triathlon.org.

TECHNICAL OFFICIALS EDUCATION
A range of Technical Officials and Coach courses and seminars were staged across the month of May:
2023 Phnom Penh World Triathlon Technical Officials Level 1 Seminar
2023 Bridgetown World Triathlon Technical Officials Level 1 Seminar
2023 Sharm El Sheikh World Triathlon Technical Officials Level 1 Seminar
2023 Osaka World Triathlon Technical Officials & Event Organizers Level 2 Seminar
Read all about the education initiatives that took place in May

COACH EDUCATION AND OLYMPIC SOLIDARITY
Sierra Leone hosts first ever coaches course funded by Olympic Solidarity
The IOC Olympic Solidarity funded technical course for coaches on 8-12 May, 2023 Port Loko OS - World Triathlon Coaches Level 1 Course, which was staged the day after the 2023 Duathlon National Championships had 16 coach candidates from various regions of Sierra Leone. As some of attendees competed in the Natio nal Championships and others were spectators, it presented a fantastic opportunity to discuss aspects of event organisation as well. The theoretical and practical sessions throughout five long and busy days were really challenging for participants, but the enthusiastic group was holding on and did their best to learn and practice coaching. Facilitators, Istvan Jankov (HUN) and Mahdi Mnif (TUN), were paying extra attention to try and help all candidates with their progress on the World Triathlon Education & Knowledge HUB. On the closing day, all participants were awarded World Triathlon Activator Certificates and they are working on post-course tasks now in order to earn Level 1 recognition. World Triathlon expresses gratitude to the National Federation of Sierra Leone and its president, Winston Crowther, for his endless work and support to make it happen.
ACEP National Federations Meeting
World Triathlon hosted the second ACEP National Federations Meeting on 31st May for its Accredited Coach Education Programme partners. The bi-monthly meetings are aimed at sharing coach education knowledge and best practices among those NFs, who run their own curriculum, which has been reviewed and accredited by World Triathlon.
The meeting agenda included:
- Welcome and introduction presented by Istvan Jankov, World Triathlon Coach Education Manager
- The coach education framework of Belgian Triathlon in alignment with European standards, presented by Thomas Steurbaut, Director of Sports Management Training, Triathlon Flanders
- Q&A session, open discussion
In March 2023 the Mexican Triathlon Federation introduced their e-learning system and the financial model that enables them to train a remarkably high number of coaches from Spanish-speaking NFs each year.

Find out more about World Triathlon Development resources and initiatives in the Education and Knowledge HUB.