Winter triathlon

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title: "Winter triathlon" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["cross-country-skiing", "endurance-games", "individual-sports", "mountain-biking", "triathlon", "winter-sports"] description: "Sport variant of triathlon" topic_path: "sports" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_triathlon" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Sport variant of triathlon ::

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Since 2013, the International Triathlon Union created a new version of the sport, which consist of 5 km of snowshoeing, 12km of ice skating, and 8km of cross-country skiing . It is called winter triathlon S3, because the three sports start with an S (snowshoe, skate, ski). The first ITU event was held in Quebec, Canada in February 2015. However, the Canadian national winter triathlon championships have been running for over 30 years. The Winterlude Triathlon is the oldest established winter triathlon in Canada.

The sport was denied inclusion in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

References

References

1. "Winter Triathlon". International Triathlon Union.
2. (28 November 2006). "Ski Cross To Be Olympic Sport In 2010". GamesBids.com.

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