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Triathlon at the Commonwealth Games

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Triathlon is one of the sports at the quadrennial Commonwealth Games competition. It was first granted Commonwealth Games sport status in 2002, and has been held in each edition since, except in Delhi 2010 Games due to the lack of suitable venue for the swimming leg in Delhi. Until 2022, it was a core sport which had to be included in each competition's sporting programme. Para-triathlon was first included as an optional sport in the Gold Coast 2018 games. The next appearance of the sport will take place in the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Australia[1]

Currently there are five triathlon events in the Commonwealth Games.

Individual events are held for men and women and have been since the sport's introduction in 2002, while a mixed team relay has been on the programme since 2014.

Additionally, as part of its program of integrating parasport into the Commonwealth Games, two paratriathlon events were included in the 2018 Games in Gold Coast, Australia. These events, one for each sex, where wheelchair paratriathlon events ('PTW1' and 'PTW2' classifications) using a multiple start format to ensure fairness across different wheelchair classes. In the 2022 Games the paratriathlon events were retained, and were for athletes with visual impairments ('PTVI' classification). A third set of paratriathlon events, as yet undesignated, has been announced for Victoria 2026.

At the 1990 Commonwealth Games at Auckland, Triathlon was a demonstration event; won by Erin Baker (women) and Rick Wells (men), both from New Zealand.[2]

Flora Duffy of Bermuda is the only triathlete of either sex to win two individual gold medals, or to win gold medals in separate Games, while Alistair Brownlee. Jodie Stimpson and Alex Yee have each won two Commonwealth Games gold medals, one individual, one mixed relay, in a single Games. Alistair Brownlee, with two golds and one silver medal, is overall the most successful triathlete in Commonwealth Games history. Jacob Birtwhistle, Matthew Hauser, Jonny Brownlee and Vicky Holland have also won 3 medals, including at least one relay gold.


Editions

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Games Year Host city Host country Best nation Events
XVII 2002 Manchester  England  Canada 2
XVIII 2006 Melbourne, Victoria  Australia  Australia 2
XX 2014 Glasgow  Scotland  England 3
XXI 2018 Gold Coast, Queensland  Australia  England 5
XXII 2022 Birmingham  England  England 5
Future Event
XXIII 2026 Geelong, Victoria  Australia TBC 5

Medalists

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Men
Games Gold Silver Bronze
2002 (details)  Simon Whitfield (CAN)  Miles Stewart (AUS)  Hamish Carter (NZL)
2006 (details)  Brad Kahlefeldt (AUS)  Bevan Docherty (NZL)  Peter Robertson (AUS)
2010 not held
2014 (details)  Alistair Brownlee (ENG)  Jonathan Brownlee (ENG)  Richard Murray (RSA)
2018 (details)  Henri Schoeman (RSA)  Jacob Birtwhistle (AUS)  Marc Austin (SCO)
2022 (details)  Alex Yee (ENG)  Hayden Wilde (NZL)  Matt Hauser (AUS)
Women
Games Gold Silver Bronze
2002 (details)  Carol Montgomery (CAN)  Leanda Cave (WAL)  Nicole Hackett (AUS)
2006 (details)  Emma Snowsill (AUS)  Samantha Warriner (NZL)  Andrea Hewitt (NZL)
2010 not held
2014 (details)  Jodie Stimpson (ENG)  Kirsten Sweetland (CAN)  Vicky Holland (ENG)
2018 (details)  Flora Duffy (BER)  Jessica Learmonth (ENG)  Joanna Brown (CAN)
2022 (details)  Flora Duffy (BER)  Georgia Taylor-Brown (ENG)  Beth Potter (SCO)
Mixed team
Games Gold Silver Bronze
2014 details  England (ENG)
Vicky Holland
Jonathan Brownlee
Jodie Stimpson
Alistair Brownlee
 South Africa (RSA)
Kate Roberts
Henri Schoeman
Gillian Sanders
Richard Murray
 Australia (AUS)
Emma Moffatt
Aaron Royle
Emma Jackson
Ryan Bailie
2018 details  Australia (AUS)
Gillian Backhouse
Matthew Hauser
Ashleigh Gentle
Jacob Birtwhistle
 England (ENG)
Vicky Holland
Jonny Brownlee
Jessica Learmonth
Alistair Brownlee
 New Zealand (NZL)
Nicole van der Kaay
Ryan Sissons
Andrea Hewitt
Tayler Reid
2022 (details)  England (ENG)
Alex Yee
Sophie Coldwell
Sam Dickinson
Georgia Taylor-Brown
 Wales (WAL)
Iestyn Harrett
Olivia Mathias
Dominic Coy
Non Stanford
 Australia (AUS)
Jacob Birtwhistle
Natalie van Coevorden
Matthew Hauser
Sophie Linn
Paratriathlon men
Games Gold Silver Bronze
2018 PTWC details  Joe Townsend (ENG)  Nic Beveridge (AUS)  Bill Chaffey (AUS)
2022 PTVI details  David Ellis (ENG)
pilot : Luke Pollard
 Sam Harding (AUS)
pilot : Luke Harvey
 Jonathan Goerlach (AUS)
pilot : David Mainwaring
Paratriathlon women
Games Gold Silver Bronze
2018 PTWC details  Jade Jones (ENG)  Emily Tapp (AUS)  Lauren Parker (AUS)
2022 PTVI details  Katie Crowhurst (ENG)
Guide: Jessica Fullagar
 Chloe MacCombe (NIR)
Guide: Catherine A Sands
 Jessica Tuomela (AUS)
Guide: Emma Skaug

All-time medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 England94114
2 Australia35816
3 Canada2125
4 Bermuda2002
5 South Africa1113
6 New Zealand0336
7 Wales0202
8 Northern Ireland0101
9 Scotland0022
Totals (9 entries)17171751

References

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  1. ^ "IOA demands addition of archery, shooting and wrestling at Victoria 2026". Insidethegames.biz. 24 April 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  2. ^ Triathlon. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-03-27.
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