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• Disabled Triathlon Championships to be held at Rother Valley

• Date:

  3rd March 2008

• Contact:

  Sarah Egerton

• Organisation:

  The Civic Trust

Rother Valley Country Park in South Yorkshire will become the first location to host a national event exclusively for disabled triathletes.

British Triathlon will become the first Governing Body in the world to offer this event when the British Disabled Triathlon Championships gets underway on 1 June. The race will take place as part of the Rother Valley Triathlon festival.

Event organisers will be catering for all categories of disability, which requires all of the athletes needing to be classified. This is either carried out weeks before the event or during the registration process.

Adam Moffat, Director of One Step Beyond Promotions, said: “The festival organisation is going well. Starting any new event is always difficult, let alone one which has seven individual races across a weekend. That said, as an organisation we are excited to be working alongside the Governing Body on this fantastic project, and we look forward to delivering a fun action packed festival of triathlon.”

Under the British Triathlon Disability Classification System there are 48 individual profiles which have been categorised into nine classes, enabling equal and fair competition to take place. The race organisers have already had entries from eight disabled athletes who all signed up in the first month. The aim is to have more than 50 athletes competing.