Dubai: Dubai Sports Council has announced the opening of registration for the fifth edition of the Dubai Women’s Triathlon 2022, the first sports event of its kind in the region for women only, organized by the Dubai Sports Council on Sunday (October 2, 2022) in cooperation with the Dubai Ladies Club, and includes three Sports are swimming, running and cycling.
The organizing committee allows registration in the triathlon for all women of different physical levels and all nationalities from inside and outside the country, starting from the age of 15 years and above, through the official website of the Dubai Sports Council www.dubaisc.ae, where those wishing to participate can register individually or make a difference.
The Dubai Ladies Club in Jumeirah will host the fifth triathlon, which includes three sports: swimming, running and cycling for a distance of more than 40 kilometres, in three categories: Super Sprint, Sprint, and the approved Olympic distance, where the contestants compete in the category of The Super Sprint will run 400 meters swimming, 10 kilometres cycling, and 2.5 kilometres running, while the female sprinters compete in 750 meters swimming, 20 kilometres cycling, and 5 kilometres running, and in the Olympic distance category, the participants compete for 1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running.
The triathlon competitions will start with the swimming competition, which is held on the beach of the Dubai Ladies Club in a framework of complete privacy, and a full crew of lifeguards will be provided to follow the participants during the swimming race, and then they will move to the bicycle competitions that start in front of the club on Jumeirah Street between the Etihad Museum And the intersection of Al Thanya Street, up to the club again, then they move to the running competitions, which are held along the Dubai Water Canal, to end the competitions inside the Dubai Ladies Club.
The Dubai Sports Council organizes many activities and events for women and launches many initiatives aimed at enhancing the role of women in the sports sector, whether at the level of empowerment, development or practice and achieving achievements through honourable representation in all international forums and works according to a methodology that seeks to achieve development In women’s sport by raising women’s awareness of the importance of sport in their daily lives in the short term and strengthening the presence of Emirati women in the local, regional and global sports arena in the long term.
The Dubai Women’s Triathlon is one of the initiatives of the Dubai Sports Council that aims to promote the dissemination of a culture of physical activity among women and to establish a solid base for this community group to practice sports and all kinds of physical activities, whether at the competitive level or at the level of practice that gain women fitness and maintain their health To enable her to fulfil her role in serving the country and taking care of her family members.
