World Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships
# World Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships

The World Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships, is an annual team triathlon competition organized by World Triathlon. The competition is completed in teams of four, two men and two women, with each member doing a super-sprint distance triathlon.

## History

The first relay event appeared in 2003 in Tiszaújváros, Hungary as the ITU Team Relay Championships, two races were run one for men's teams and one for women's teams every team would have three members who would each complete one leg and the teams combined time would be their total time. Despite being deemed a success the event would not return until 2006. The championship would return in 2006 and 2007 before once again lacking an annual competition in 2008. In 2009, World Triathlon (then known as the International Triathlon Union or ITU) went through a major reorganization of its top level competitions, the men's and women's relay championships where merged and the title would be contested as a mixed relay. The event was initiated with the aim of getting more triathletes as well as the team triathlon discipline on the Olympic programme.

The format appeared at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the 2014 Asian Games, which was considered a significant step towards adding team triathlon to the 2016 Summer Olympic programme. In July 2013, the IOC executive board ruled that they would not add any new disciplines to the 2016 games for fear of putting additional financial pressure on Brazil. In June 2017 with the announcement of mixed gender events being added to the Olympic program the mixed team relay has gained Olympic status and will hold its inaugural Olympic event in the 2020 Olympics. In 2018 it was decided that at three of the events of that years World Triathlon Series would also host a mixed relay event would be held alongside the men's and women's competition one of these would be the World Championship and all three events would grant points towards Olympic qualification and constitute the new mixed relay series. In 2019 the number of mixed relays in World Triathlon Series were increased to five and once again one of these would be the World Championship.

In 2021 the Mixed Relay World Championships were awarded to Bermuda, with the intent of holding a combined World Triathlon Sprint & Mixed Relay Championships, which would also mark the return of a stand alone Sprint Championship after a ten-year hiatus. However, the Bermuda event was cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions, and the inaugural combined event was instead held as the Montréal leg of the 2022 World Triathlon Championship Series. The event doubled as the first qualifier for the 2024 Summer Olympics, and also included the first age-group mixed relay world championships.

## Results

### 4 x 4 Mixed relay

| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| 2009 | Switzerland Magali Messmer Lukas Salvisberg Daniela Ryf Ruedi Wild | Australia Emma Moffatt Courtney Atkinson Emma Snowsill Brad Kahlefeldt | Canada Lauren Campbell Brent McMahon Kathy Tremblay Simon Whitfield |
| 2010 | Switzerland Nicola Spirig Sven Riederer Daniela Ryf Ruedi Wild | France Jessica Harrison Frédéric Belaubre Carole Péon David Hauss | New Zealand Kate Mcllroy Tony Dodds Nicky Samuels Ryan Sissons |
| 2011 | Great Britain Jodie Stimpson Jonathan Brownlee Helen Jenkins Alistair Brownlee | Switzerland Melanie Hauss Ruedi Wild Nicola Spirig Sven Riederer | Germany Anja Dittmer Maik Petzold Svenja Balzen Steffen Justus |
| 2012 | Great Britain Vicky Holland William Clake Non Stanford Jonathan Brownlee | France Jessica Harrison Tony Moulai Carole Péon Vincent Luis | Russia Irina Abysova Dmitry Polyanskiy Alexandra Razarenova Alexander Bryukhankov |
| 2013 | Germany Anja Knapp Jan Frodeno Anne Haug Franz Loeschke | New Zealand Andrea Hewitt Tony Dodds Kate McIlroy Ryan Sissons | United States Sarah Groff Ben Kanute Gwen Jorgensen Cameron Dye |
| 2014 | Great Britain Lucy Hall Jonathan Brownlee Vicky Holland Alistair Brownlee | France Cassandre Beaugrand Dorian Coninx Audrey Merle Vincent Luis | Hungary Zsófia Kovács Tamás Tóth Margit Vanek Ákos Vanek |
| 2015 | France Jeanne Lehair Dorian Coninx Audrey Merle Vincent Luis | Australia Gillian Backhouse Aaron Royle Emma Jackson Ryan Baillie | Great Britain Vicky Holland Gordon Benson Non Stanford Mark Buckingham |
| 2016 | United States Gwen Jorgensen Ben Kanute Kirsten Kasper Joe Maloy | Australia Charlotte McShane Jacob Birtwhistle Emma Jackson Ryan Bailie | Germany Laura Lindemann Jonathan Zipf Hanna Philippin Gregor Buchholz |
| 2017 | Australia Charlotte McShane Matthew Hausser Ashleigh Gentle Jacob Birtwhistle | United States Kirsten Kasper Ben Kanute Katie Zaferes Matthew Mcelroy | Netherlands Maaike Caelers Marco Van Der Stel Rachel Klamer Jorik Van Egdom |
| 2018 | France Léonie Périault Dorian Coninx Cassandre Beaugrand Vincent Luis | Australia Natalie Van Coevorden Aaron Royle Ashleigh Gentle Jacob Birtwhistle | United States Kirsten Kasper Ben Kanute Katie Zaferes Kevin McDowell |
| 2019 | France Émilie Morier Léo Bergère Cassandre Beaugrand Vincent Luis | Germany Laura Lindemann Valentin Wernz Nina Eim Justus Nieschlag | Australia Natalie Van Coevorden Aaron Royle Emma Jeffcoat Jacob Birtwhistle |
| 2020 | France Léonie Périault Léo Bergère Cassandre Beaugrand Dorian Coninx | United States Taylor Spivey Kevin McDowell Katie Zaferes Morgan Pearson | Great Britain Georgia Taylor-Brown Barclay Izzard Jessica Learmonth Alex Yee |
| 2021 | not held | not held | not held |
| 2022 | France Pierre Le Corre Emma Lombardi Vincent Luis Cassandre Beaugrand | Great Britain Alex Yee Sophie Coldwell Sam Dickinson Georgia Taylor-Brown | United States Seth Rider Taylor Spivey Kevin McDowell Summer Rappaport |
| 2023 | Germany Tim Hellwig Annika Koch Simon Henseleit Laura Lindemann | New Zealand Hayden Wilde Ainsley Thorpe Tayler Reid Nicole van der Kaay | Switzerland Max Studer Julie Derron Sylvain Fridelance Cathia Schär |

## Team Relay Championships

Before the creation of the mixed team relay, single gendered relay races were held intermittently.

### Men's championship

| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| 2003 | Australia Simon Thompson Richie Cunningham Brad Kahlefeldt | Spain Clemente Alonso McKernan José María Merchán Iván Raña | Ukraine Vladimir Turbayevskiy Andriy Glushchenko Maxim Kriat |
| 2006 | United States Brian Fleischmann Andy Potts Matt Reed | Germany Jan Frodeno Maik Petzold Daniel Unger | Canada Kyle Jones Colin Jenkins Paul Tichelaar |
| 2007 | Russia | Germany | Spain |

### Women's championship

| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| 2003 | Australia Nikki Butterfield Mirinda Carfrae Pip Taylor | Spain Ainhoa Murúa Pilar Hidalgo Ana Burgos | Italy Beatrice Lanza Silvia Gemignani Nadia Cortassa |
| 2006 | Italy Daniela Chmet Beatrice Lanza Nadia Cortassa | United States Sarah True Mary Beth Ellis Michelle Lindsay | Spain Ana Burgos Zuriñe Rodríguez Ainhoa Murúa |
| 2007 | Russia Irina Abysova Evgeniya Matveeva Anastasiya Polyanskaya | Ukraine Inna Tutukina Yuliya Yelistratova Olesya Prystayko | Italy Daniela Chmet Charlotte Bonin Nadia Cortassa |
