How do I qualify for the Triathlon Age Group Team?
17th January 2022
How do I qualify for the Triathlon Age Group Team?
(Part 1) Focusing on Sprint & Standard Distance Teams.
One of the most amazing things about triathlon apart from being a great sport is the ability for all home nation members to qualify for the Age group teams. Representing Great Britain in a variety of European and World Championships gives you a chance to test yourself against the best. The question I am asked most often when I tell other triathletes that I’ve qualified for GBR is “How do I qualify for the Triathlon Age Group Team?”. We have pulled together a simple guide and list of all the qualifying races for sprint and standard in one place for you.
What Distances are Age Group Teams racing?
It is not just Sprint and Standard Distance triathlons, a whole variety of multisport events are included and every distance possible. Aquathlons, Aquabikes, Duathlons and of course Triathlons. Paratriathletes have a slightly different pathway which can be found here
How many people can enter each team?
Triathlon and Multisport Age Group Teams are broken down into “age groups” essentially in 5-year increments, each age group gets 20 places (20 for each gender) more than 20 athletes can register and try to qualify.
Registering is different for different events.
Sprint and Standard Distance Triathlon and Duathlon Championships
Qualification is via qualifying races with 4 places per age group allocated from the qualifying race. See below for the calendar of qualifying races.
Middle, Long, Cross, Winter, Aquabike and Aquathlon Championships
Qualification is via submitting a race result that meets the criteria outlined on the event webpage. You only register after you have done the race you want to qualify with but, you should read the event webpage before so you know your race meets the desired criteria. Of course, before you do this you need to make sure you are a member of your home nation!
Qualification Events
Here is a list of all the Sprint and Standard Distance Triathlon/Duathlon qualification events to help you qualify for the Triathlon Age Group Team: You must register to qualify on the correct Championship before 5 pm on the Friday before the qualifying race to be eligible to qualify, you can do this by heading to the event on the BTF age group event pages and hit the register button.
Read the qualification info for each race, apart from getting on the podium you usually are required to be within a percentage of the winner of your age group time. If you get a qualifying time you’ll get an email from the age group team manager congratulating you on qualifying (this can be a while after the race) you may have had a quick enough time but others were quicker, you’ll have a time against your name and be on the “roll down” waiting for those ahead of you to decide if they are taking up the slot.
The events are as follows.
2023 World Championship Sprint Distance Duathlon
Mallory Park Sprint Duathlon* – 06.03.2022 – Race Rapid
Oulton Park Duathlon* – 20.03.2022 – OP Events
Thruxton Duathlon* – 02.10.2022 – Challenging Events
2023 European Championship Sprint Distance Duathlon
Clumber Park Duathlon – 23.04.2022 – Tri Society
Slateman Duathlon – 11.06.2022 – Always Aim High Events
Darley Moor Duathlon – 18.09.2022 – Crazy Legs Events
2023 World Championship Standard Distance Duathlon
Clumber Park Duathlon – 23.04.2022 – Tri Society
Grafham Duathlon – 30.10.2022 – Active Training World
2023 European Championship Standard Distance Duathlon
Yorkshire Duathlon – 03.04.2022 – TriHard Events
St. Neots Duathlon – 24.07.2022 – Active Training World
Oulton Park Duathlon – 02.10.2022 – OP Events
2023 World Championship Sprint Distance Triathlon
Cardiff Triathlon* – 26.06.2022 – Always Aim High Events
M3 Monikie Triathlon Festival – 06.08.2022 – M3 Monifieth Triathlon Club
Box End Triathlon – 03.09.2022 – Active Training World
2023 World Championship Standard Distance Triathlon
Woodhorn Museum Triathlon – 09.07.2022 – VO2 Max Racing Events
Shropshire Triathlon – 03.09.2022 – UK Triathlon
2023 European Championship Sprint Distance Triathlon
Eton Sprints* – 15.05.2022 – Human Race
Eastbourne Triathlon – 12.06.2022 – TriBourne Multisport Events
Woodhorn Museum Triathlon – 09.07.2022 – VO2 Max Racing Events
2023 European Championship Standard Distance Triathlon
Southport Triathlon – 22.05.2022 – Epic Events
2022 World Triathlon Leeds – 12.06.2022 – British Triathlon
London Triathlon (Olympic) – 07.08.2022 – Limelight Sports Club
2023 World Championship Standard Distance Aquabike
Northumberland Triathlon (Standard Distance Aquabike) – 22.05.2022 – VO2 Max Racing Events
Deva Triathlon (Standard Distance Aquabike) – 12.06.2022 – Chester Triathlon Club
Bournemouth International Triathlon (Standard Distance Aquabike) – 11.09.2022 – Challenging Events
The Middle distance duathlon also has 3 qualifying events for 2023
2023 European Championship Middle Distance Duathlon
Cholmondeley Triathlon (Middle Distance Duathlon) – 19.06.2022 – Castle Race Series
Castle Howard Triathlon (Middle Distance Duathlon) – 24.07.2022 – Castle Race Series
Box End Triathlon (Middle Distance Duathlon) – 04.09.2022 – Active Training World
For the longer distance triathlons and duathlons, we have a different route to qualify which we will look at in more depth in the next article, these races allow you to submit results however each race has differing caveats attached. If you are looking to qualify for the Triathlon Age Group Team check out our training plan for getting age group qualification times.
