| Mixed relay at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Pont Alexandre III, Paris | ||||||||||||
| Date | 5 August 2024 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 60 from 15 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:25:39 | ||||||||||||
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| Triathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics | ||
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The Mixed relay triathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place at the Pont Alexandre III in Paris on 5 August 2024. [1] The mixed team event featured teams of four (two men and two women). Each athlete swam 300 m (330 yd), cycled 8 km (5.0 mi), and ran 2 km (1.2 mi) in a relay format. [2] [3]
Five Tokyo 2020 medallists - Morgan Pearson and Taylor Knibb of the United States, Alex Yee and Georgia Taylor-Brown of Great Britain, and Cassandre Beaugrand of France - took part in the event. The other members of each of those teams were changed from the previous Olympics. In the United States' team, Pearson and Knibb were retained while Kevin McDowell and Katie Zaferes were replaced with Seth Rider and Taylor Spivey. In Great Britain's team, Yee and Taylor-Brown were retained while Jonny Brownlee, now retired, and Jess Learmonth were replaced with Sam Dickinson and Beth Potter. For the host country's team, Vincent Luis, Dorian Coninx and Léonie Périault were replaced with Pierre Le Corre, Léo Bergère and Emma Lombardi.
Laura Lindemann anchored Germany to the gold, finishing just ahead of the United States' Knibb and Great Britain's Potter. All three athletes finished within one second of each other. [4] Great Britain were originally announced as having secured the silver, but after a review of the photo finish, it was confirmed just before the medal ceremony that Knibb had edged out Potter for second place. [5]
The race was originally supposed to be contested by 16 teams, but Belgium was forced to drop out after one team member, Claire Michel, fell ill. [6] The Swiss team also had to shuffle its lineup as a result of illness. Simon Westermann was originally supposed to replace Adrien Briffod after he came down with a stomach infection. [7] However, after falling ill from a stomach bug himself, Westermann was replaced by Sylvain Fridelance. [8]
