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TheWorld Triathlon Sprint Championships is atriathlon competition covering distances of 750 m swim, 20 km bicycle and 5 km run and is organised by theWorld Triathlon. The inaugural championships took place in 2010. In 2011 the championship was held as an event as part of the2011 ITU World Championship Series. Great Britain'sJonathan Brownlee was the male champion in both editions, while SwedeLisa Norden and ChileanBarbara Riveros Diaz won the first two women's championships. However, for every year after 2011 multiple sprint events were held as part of theWorld Triathlon Series with no delineation made between them, and so no title was awarded at sprint distances at the elite level.
In 2021 Bermuda, as one leg of theWorld Triathlon Championship Series was selected to host a combined World Triathlon Sprint & Relay Championships, also incorporating theWorld Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships, and reintroducing a sprint championship in a new multi-race 'Eliminator' format, but the event was cancelled following COVID-19 restrictions. The combined event took place the following year in Montréal, Canada on 25 June 2022.
The Championships' eliminator format included multiple races of a super-sprint distance (300 m swim, 5 km bike and 2.5 km run) over several days of racing. Athletes begin by competing in super-sprint qualifiers with the top 10 finishers in each of two heats proceeding to the final. For those outside the top 10, a final repechages is held, where they compete again, with the top 10 again reaching the final for a final field of thirty. In the final, the eliminators adopt a 'Devil' format (from 'devil take the hindmost'). 30 athletes compete in the first super sprint, with the last ten eliminated; thirty minutes later a further super-sprint eliminates a further ten from the smaller field of twenty before the final super-sprint race of ten athletes is held to decide the World sprint title. Each elimination race lasts around 20 to 25 minutes, as compared to the hour for 'sprint' distance and 1 he 30 to 2 hour time frame of standard distance triathlon. The final day event therefore lasts approximately two and a half hours, but consists of multiple shorter, more intense races in which transition is unusually important.
The first eliminator format World Sprint champions in 2022 both represented Great Britain,Alex Yee in the male event, andGeorgia Taylor-Brown in the women's equivalent.
Jonathan Brownlee is the only two time Sprint distance world champion.
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Jonathan Brownlee Great Britain | Tim Don Great Britain | David Hauss France |
| 2011 | Jonathan Brownlee Great Britain | Javier Gómez Spain | Alistair Brownlee Great Britain |
| on hiatus 2012-2021 | |||
| 2022 | Alex Yee Great Britain | Hayden Wilde New Zealand | Léo Bergère France |
| 2023 | Hayden Wilde New Zealand | Vasco Vilaça Portugal | Alex Yee Great Britain |
| 2024 | cancelled due to course conditions | ||
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Lisa Nordén Sweden | Emma Moffatt Australia | Daniela Ryf Switzerland |
| 2011 | Barbara Riveros Diaz Chile | Emma Jackson Australia | Andrea Hewitt New Zealand |
| on hiatus 2012-2021 | |||
| 2022 | Georgia Taylor-Brown Great Britain | Cassandre Beaugrand France | Beth Potter Great Britain |
| 2023 | Cassandre Beaugrand France | Beth Potter Great Britain | Laura Lindemann Germany |
| 2024 | cancelled due to course conditions | ||
| Year | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 21 August | Lausanne |
| 2011 | 20 August | Lausanne |
| on hiatus - 2012-2021 | ||
| 2022 | 25 June |  Montreal |
| 2023 | 15 July | Hamburg |
| 2024 | not held | |
