The Ibiza Multisport World Championship will be held in 2023

The ITU Executive Committee at its last meeting last week has decided postpone the next Multisport World Championships.

Thus, Almere (The Netherlands) that would host this year's World Cup from September 4 to 13 will take place in 2021, with dates to be confirmed soon; the Multisport World Championship to be held in Townsville (Australia) moves to 2022, and that of Ibiza to 2023.

The ITU, through a release who has gone public, thanks the three organizing committees and their respective National Federations and local governments for their flexibility and willingness to accommodate the new dates, in order to minimize the impact that the current pandemic will have in the short and medium term.

“It has not been an easy decision for any of us to make, but considering the situation of athletes around the world, many with insufficient access to training due to confinement and with travel restrictions that still apply to many countries, we agreed that the best option for all was to move the events for a whole year”, explained the ITU President and IOC member, Marisol Casado.

For his part, the president of the Spanish Triathlon Federation highlighted that "the Federation and the Ibiza Council, in these moments of global difficulty that we are having to live, we advocate solidarity and commitment between people and organizers to seek a common good in our sport

. And for this reason it was necessary to tackle a readjustment of the competition calendars and move the Multisport World Championship in Ibiza to 2023.

With this new situation we want to show the effort and commitment that we are all making to ensure that the development of triathlon and its competitions are of the highest level, and in coordination with the rest of the organizers and for a common good, which are the athletes".

Vicente Marí, president of the Consell de Ibiza, also commented that "we believe that Ibiza is a safe destination, and that is how we have been transmitting it for a long time by the Consell d'Eivissa, however we understand that a celebration of the height of this world cup deserves to be a true sports festival, so we understand that it is worth waiting another year if with that we can ensure that all the countries participating in an event of these characteristics have been able to recover socially, mentally and, above all, healthily".