Triathlon at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Mixed relay

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Mixed relay Triathlon
at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Triathlon pictogram.svg
Venue Sutton Park, West Midlands
Date31 July 2022
Competitors48 from 12 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of England.svg  England
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Wales 2.svg  Wales
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
  2018
2026  

The mixed relay triathlon was part of the Triathlon at the 2022 Commonwealth Games program. The competition was held on 31 July 2022 at Sutton Park, near Sutton Coldfield in Birmingham. This was to be the third time the event had been held at the Commonwealth Games.

Contents

Australia returned as defending champions, while England, the 2014 champions, returned as hosts. 12 teams competed, the largest number ever in the event, with debuts for Namibia, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados, the first Caribbean [1] nations to take part, and India, the first Asian team to take part in the event. As such, this was the first occasion when all six regions of the Commonwealth Games Federation will be represented.

Competition format

Each team consisted of four athletes (two male and two female) and each had to cover a course of 300 metres (0.19 mi) swimming, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) road bicycling, and 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) road running. [2] In line with World Triathlon rules for this Olympiad, for the first time the race order at the Commonwealth Games was male, female, male, female.

Result

Entry lists were published on 20 July 2022. [3]

England regained the title they won in the 2014 Commonwealth Games, individual gold medalist Alex Yee creating a twenty second lead over the run stage of the first leg, and Coldwell, Dickinson and a dominant Taylor-Brown never relinquishing it. Non Stanford, building on the strong leg of Olivia Mathias, surged on the final run leg to give Wales its first Commonwealth triathlon medal, a silver 46 seconds behind the gold, with 2018 champions Australia profiting from a fast third leg from Matthew Hauser to hold on to the bronze medal a further three seconds back, but eight clear of fourth placed New Zealand. [4] [5] [6]

The number in brackets indicates individual rankings on their respective leg.

RankTeamTriathletesIndividual TimeTotal timeGap
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of England.svg  England Alex Yee
Sophie Coldwell
Sam Dickinson
Georgia Taylor-Brown
17:27 (1)
20:18 (4)
18:45 (4)
20:10 (1)
01:16:40-
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of Wales 2.svg  Wales Iestyn Harrett
Olivia Mathias
Dominic Coy
Non Stanford
18:10 (5)
20:02 (2)
18:34 (3)
20:40 (2)
01:17:26+46
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of Australia.svg  Australia Jacob Birtwhistle
Natalie van Coevorden
Matthew Hauser
Sophie Linn
17:52 (3)
20:47 (6)
18:07 (1)
20:43 (3)
01:17:29+49
4Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand Hayden Wilde
Nicole van der Kaay
Tayler Reid
Ainsley Thorpe
17:47 (2)
20:26 (5)
18:33 (2)
20:51 (4)
01:17:37+57
5Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland Cameron Main
Sophia Green
Grant Sheldon
Beth Potter
18:13 (6)
19:59 (1)
19:19 (6)
21:04 (5)
01:18:35+1:55
6Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Tyler Mislawchuk
Emy Legault
Charles Paquet
Dominika Jamnicky
18:31 (8)
20:56 (7)
19:01 (5)
21:33 (7)
01:20:01+3:21
7Flag of Bermuda.svg  Bermuda Tyler Smith
Flora Duffy
Tyler Butterfield
Erica Hawley
18:38 (9)
20:11 (3)
19:56 (8)
21:21 (6)
01:20:06+3:26
8Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa Jamie Riddle
Simone Ackerman
Henri Schoeman
Shanae Williams
18:10 (4)
21:41 (8)
19.20 (7)
22:06 (8)
01:21:17+4:35
9Flag of Namibia.svg  Namibia Drikus Coetzee
Imke Jagau
Jean-Paul Burger
Anri Krugel
20:44 (11)
24:02 (9)
20:57 (9)
24:41 (10)
01:30:24+13:44
10Flag of India.svg  India Adarsh Muralidharan Nair Sinimol
Pragnya Mohan
Vishwanath Yadav
Sanjana Sunil Joshi
20:31 (10)
24:09 (10)
22:11 (10)
24:52 (11)
01:31:43+15:03
11Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago Jean-Marc Granderson
Kaya Rankine-Beadle
Jason Costelloe
Jenna Ross
22:32 (12)
26:03 (11)
22:50 (11)
24:16 (9)
01:35:41+19:01
12Flag of Barbados.svg  Barbados Matthew Wright
Zahra Gaskin
Niel Skinner
Chara Hinds
18:22 (7)
27:25 (12)
23:29 (12)
27:04 (12)
01:36:20+19:40

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