The PTO and USA Triathlon have introduced that the PTO US Open will happen within the Metropolis of Milwaukee on 4-5 August, 2023, alongside USA Triathlon’s Nationwide Championships occasion. Final week the PTO already announced a new race in Singapore.
The PTO is anticipating over 7.000 contributors and 20.000 spectators in Milwaukee, which guarantees the race to be one of many largest ever weekends of Triathlon in North America.
A specifically designed course round Milwaukee, which is adjoining to the Milwaukee Artwork Museum, Henry Maier Pageant Park and Discovery World alongside the shore of Lake Michigan, will host the world’s prime feminine and male skilled triathletes as they battle it out for the PTO US Open title over the 100km PTO Tour distance (2km swim, 80km bike and 18km run). Athletes will swim in Lake Michigan, which supplies cool water temperatures and a breakwater in Milwaukee’s bay. The bike course traverses down Lincoln Memorial Drive with a circulation via transition that gives a picturesque and spectator pleasant venue. The run course travels out alongside Lake Michigan on paved trails via the scenic Veterans Park, returning on the shaded Lincoln Memorial Drive.
Commenting on the information, PTO CEO Sam Renouf mentioned: “Partnering with USA Triathlon at their Nationwide Championships in Milwaukee will give our professionals a unbelievable backdrop to this 12 months’s PTO US Open in addition to vociferous assist. Having labored with USAT final 12 months, we’re constructing an awesome understanding and have a really clear imaginative and prescient for this 12 months’s races.”
“With three days of all-day racing we’re capable of host three distinctly completely different occasions – dash and Olympic-distance nationwide championships, Zone3 Youth and Junior Nationals, and the PTO US Open – and provides each competing athlete their well-deserved time within the highlight,” mentioned USA Triathlon Chief Sport Growth Officer Tim Yount. “This triathlon competition will showcase one of many issues that makes our sport each distinctive and nice – athletes ages 7 to 87, age group {and professional}, from everywhere in the U.S. and across the globe, racing on the identical venue over the identical weekend and we look ahead to celebrating our multisport neighborhood with so many.”
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