Triathlon Ontario Announces First Ever Long Course Development Team Initiative and Criteria
– 25% of donations along with other financial and promotional support to go directly to athletes –
January 13, 2016 – Triathlon Ontario, the recognized Provincial Governing Body of Multisport in Ontario, announced that is has created an initiative to provide both financial and promotional support to up to three long course professionals of each gender who meet a stated criteria.
Three of Canada’s top professional long course professionals and Ontario natives, Cody Beals, Talyor Reid and Lionel Sanders were instrumental in helping to develop the criteria, providing invaluable feedback and input during the process.
The objective of the initiative is to provide increased exposure and financial support to the Province’s developing long course athletes, helping to bridge the gap from new professional with little or no sponsorship, to well established professionals in a better position to succeed on and off the race course.
Athletes that are interested in being named to the Triathlon Ontario Long Course Development Team must meet the following criteria:
- Must have Triathlon Ontario designated Elite status in Long Course racing
- At least one podium (top three) overall finish in a Triathlon Ontario sanctioned long course race in the year of qualification
- Must be under 30 years of age as of December 31st of the funding year
- Must earn one of the following results – Within 8% of the overall winning time in athlete’s gender at one of the following events:
– P-500 or greater ranked IRONMAN 70.3 event, or
– P-2000 or greater ranked IRONMAN event or
– Challenge Family event
Applications for the Team will be received by November 1, 2016 and the 2017 Team will be named shortly thereafter once the applications have been reviewed. The funding and promotional support will be for the 2017 season with existing and new applicants applying for the Team annually.
For more details about the initiatives please see the Triathlon Ontario website.