Mixed teams to debut at Paris 2024 Olympics

World Athletics And International Olympic Committee (IOC) agreed to a new test in MarchHe mixed team relaywhich will debut on Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

He mixed relay marathon walking will 25 teamseach consisting of one male and one female athlete who will complete the marathon distance (42.195 km) in four sections of approximately the same distance.

Each athlete will two sections a little over 10 km eachalternation of masculine, feminine, masculine, feminine.

The marathon distance was chosen because of its existing popularity in athletics and its connection to tradition. Olympic Games.

The event will take place in same itinerary as individual events march, at the foot Eiffel Tower in the center of Paris and will be completed in about three hours. Requiring each athlete to complete two stages will add an endurance component to the race.

The team’s qualification path for this new event will be published shortly.

“We are pleased that we have another mixed relay in the Olympic program. show the qualities of our male and female athletes in one form. This format is for innovative, dynamic and unpredictable. It will also ensure full gender equality for the first time across the entire Olympic track and field program,” he said. John RegionCEO of World Athletics.

The mixed relay Marathon Race Walk will take place in Wednesday, August 7, 2024 at 7:30 am.six days after the start of the 20 km individual race program in the Paris Olympic athletics program. Thursday 1 August.

The full Olympic athletics program will cover 11 days, from August 1 to 11, and will end with a women’s marathon on the last day of the Games.

(According to information from EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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