aquathlon
Sign in to saveAn aquathlon is a multisport race consisting of continuous run and swim elements. Competitors complete a swim immediately followed by a run over various distances. Athletes compete for fastest overall course completion, including the time transitioning between the disciplines.
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- Sport.name
- Aquathlon
- Sport.image
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- Sport.imagesize
- 220px
- Sport.union
- International Triathlon Union
- Sport.first
- 20th century
- Sport.firstlabel
- First contested
- Sport.country/region
- Worldwide
- Sport.contact
- No
- Sport.mgender
- No
- Sport.category
- Endurance sport
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- Instance of
- type of sport
- Has part
- running
- Sport
- triathlon
- Organizer
- World Triathlon
- Has parts of class
- sports discipline
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- Category:Aquathlon
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- Aquathlon
- different from
- aquathlon
- practiced by
- athlete
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An aquathlon is a multisport race consisting of continuous run and swim elements. Competitors complete a swim immediately followed by a run over various distances. Athletes compete for fastest overall course completion, including the time transitioning between the disciplines.
Aquathlon is one of a family of endurance based multisport races, which gained popularity from triathlon and various independent races in the second half of the twentieth century. Modern aquathlon is viewed as a discipline of triathlon as standard races cover the same distances as triathlon but without the cycling leg. As such the sport is governed by International Triathlon Union who organise the world championships each year.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “aquathlon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.