Triathlon at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Mixed relay explained

Event:Mixed relay Triathlon
Games:2022
Venue:Sutton Park, West Midlands
Date:31 July 2022
Competitors:48
Nations:12
Gold:Alex Yee
Sophie Coldwell
Sam Dickinson
Georgia Taylor-Brown
Goldcga:ENG
Silver:Iestyn Harrett
Olivia Mathias
Dominic Coy
Non Stanford
Silvercga:WAL
Bronze:Jacob Birtwhistle
Natalie van Coevorden
Matthew Hauser
Sophie Linn
Bronzecga:AUS
Prev:2018
Next:2026

The mixed relay triathlon was part of the Triathlon at the 2022 Commonwealth Games program. The competition was held on 31 July 2022 at Sutton Park, near Sutton Coldfield in Birmingham. This was to be the third time the event had been held at the Commonwealth Games.

Australia returned as defending champions, while England, the 2014 champions, returned as hosts. 12 teams competed, the largest number ever in the event, with debuts for Namibia, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados, the first Caribbean[1] nations to take part, and India, the first Asian team to take part in the event. As such, this was the first occasion when all six regions of the Commonwealth Games Federation will be represented.

Competition format

Each team consisted of four athletes (two male and two female) and each had to cover a course of 300m (1,000feet) swimming, 5km (03miles) road bicycling, and 2km (01miles) road running.[2] In line with World Triathlon rules for this Olympiad, for the first time the race order at the Commonwealth Games was male, female, male, female.

Result

Entry lists were published on 20 July 2022.[3]

England regained the title they won in the 2014 Commonwealth Games, individual gold medalist Alex Yee creating a twenty second lead over the run stage of the first leg, and Coldwell, Dickinson and a dominant Taylor-Brown never relinquishing it. Non Stanford, building on the strong leg of Olivia Mathias, surged on the final run leg to give Wales its first Commonwealth triathlon medal, a silver 46 seconds behind the gold, with 2018 champions Australia profiting from a fast third leg from Matthew Hauser to hold on to the bronze medal a further three seconds back, but eight clear of fourth placed New Zealand.[4] [5] [6]

The number in brackets indicates individual rankings on their respective leg.

RankTeamTriathletesIndividual TimeTotal timeGap
Alex Yee
Sophie Coldwell
Sam Dickinson
Georgia Taylor-Brown
17:27 (1)
20:18 (4)
18:45 (4)
20:10 (1)
01:16:40-
Iestyn Harrett
Olivia Mathias
Dominic Coy
Non Stanford
18:10 (5)
20:02 (2)
18:34 (3)
20:40 (2)
01:17:26+46
Jacob Birtwhistle
Natalie van Coevorden
Matthew Hauser
Sophie Linn
17:52 (3)
20:47 (6)
18:07 (1)
20:43 (3)
01:17:29+49
4Hayden Wilde
Nicole van der Kaay
Tayler Reid
Ainsley Thorpe
17:47 (2)
20:26 (5)
18:33 (2)
20:51 (4)
01:17:37+57
5Cameron Main
Sophia Green
Grant Sheldon
Beth Potter
18:13 (6)
19:59 (1)
19:19 (6)
21:04 (5)
01:18:35+1:55
6Tyler Mislawchuk
Emy Legault
Charles Paquet
Dominika Jamnicky
18:31 (8)
20:56 (7)
19:01 (5)
21:33 (7)
01:20:01+3:21
7Tyler Smith
Flora Duffy
Tyler Butterfield
Erica Hawley
18:38 (9)
20:11 (3)
19:56 (8)
21:21 (6)
01:20:06+3:26
8Jamie Riddle
Simone Ackerman
Henri Schoeman
Shanae Williams
18:10 (4)
21:41 (8)
19.20 (7)
22:06 (8)
01:21:17+4:35
9Drikus Coetzee
Imke Jagau
Jean-Paul Burger
Anri Krugel
20:44 (11)
24:02 (9)
20:57 (9)
24:41 (10)
01:30:24+13:44
10Adarsh Muralidharan Nair Sinimol
Pragnya Mohan
Vishwanath Yadav
Sanjana Sunil Joshi
20:31 (10)
24:09 (10)
22:11 (10)
24:52 (11)
01:31:43+15:03
11Jean-Marc Granderson
Kaya Rankine-Beadle
Jason Costelloe
Jenna Ross
22:32 (12)
26:03 (11)
22:50 (11)
24:16 (9)
01:35:41+19:01
12Matthew Wright
Zahra Gaskin
Niel Skinner
Chara Hinds
18:22 (7)
27:25 (12)
23:29 (12)
27:04 (12)
01:36:20+19:40

Notes and References

  1. Bermuda, while culturally part of the Caribbean, is geographically distinct, and treated as part of the Americas for the purposes of the Commonwealth Games.
  2. Web site: Triathlon. 18 November 2021 . Birmingham 2022 CWGOC. 11 July 2022.
  3. https://results.birmingham2022.com/#/athletic-sports-entries/TRI/* Birmihgma 2022 Triathlon Mixed RElay entry list
  4. Web site: Birmingham 2022 Results . 2022-08-12 . results.birmingham2022.com . en.
  5. Web site: Shaw . Graham . 2022-07-31 . Commonwealth Games Mixed Relay Triathlon results: England dominant . 2022-08-12 . TRI247 . en-GB.
  6. Web site: Triathlon . World . 2022-07-31 . Team England light up Commonwealth Games with Mixed Relay gold . 2022-08-12 . World Triathlon . en.