TRiathlon camps - swim Bike & run in ibiza

Ibiza's Triathlons - Ibiza hosts a number of World Class Multisport & Triathlon Events, run by the excellent Home De Ferro & Trijasa Triathlon Organisations.

• European ETU Cross European Triathlon Championships
• Trijasa Triathlon Sant Antoni
• Home De Ferro - Long Course Triathlon

Ibiza enjoys a fanatical Triathlon following with many participants and enthusiasts.

There are 2 Triathlon Clubs on the Island and many hundreds of competitors descend on the Island from all over the world for the 2/3 Iron Man distance Home De Ferro Ibiza Long Course Triathlon every October.

A Message For Ibiza from Les McDonald, ITU President

"To the athletes, coaches, event organisers, officials, family and friends competing, helping or simply watching and cheering at the Ibiza ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships.Ibiza is one of eleven islands in the Balearics and boasts 60 million tourists each year. The island was first settled by the Carthaginians in 654 BC, who called it Pitiusas, meaning "pine-covered island".

Although the waves of civilizations swept over Ibiza; the Romans, the Arabs, the Vandals, the Barbarians, and the Byzantines, it was the Catalans who were last to conquer the island in 1235 and they remain there to this day. It is the latter group that has most strongly affected the language, giving it the melodious charm that is hard to match. Despite the ban on their language during the reign of General Franco, the Catalan people and their language survived and prospered - "El Caudillo" did not!

Today this gem of the Mediterranean is quickly moving onto the world stage as a classic venue for International Triathlon competitions.

Enjoy the 1 lap swim in "the Med". It will be well marked, so you won't get lost. Check out the hill on the bike course - a slow grind of about 5k, and you'll be doing it twice over the two laps.

The long distance triathlon is usually won on the run, and in Ibiza you're going to need a little luck with the wind on the 3 laps course. Pray to the Carthaginian Goddess Tanit, the mother of Gods, the Goddess of earth, who controls all matters related to wind, as well as other good fortune that may affect your race. You'll see her image on many of the ceramic pots made in Ibiza today.

Warning to athletes…..stay out of the nightclubs, where the pace is faster than the 2 lap bike course of the triathlon (until after the race!)

Our thanks to the Event Organisers led by Joseba Gorrochategui and Rafael Gonzalez, as well as the team at Federacion Espanola de Triatlon, led by Jose Hidalgo, President and Marisol Casado, Executive Director. The Spanish Federation continues to provide our sport with strong leadership, within Europe and worldwide. I'm sure both organizers and federation will be hoping for a repeat of Ivan Rana's victory at the 2002 ITU Cancun World Championships, by one of their many long distance specialists.

I would be remiss by failing to acknowledge the tremendous work of Enrique Quesada of the Spanish Federation, our meticulous statistician who keeps the ITU Rankings. Enrique will be working with ITU and several national federations to establish a World Ranking of Long Distance Triathletes, using long distance events of the Nice distance, or as we prefer to say - "the nice distance".

Have a successful race, enjoy the people of Ibiza, and don't forget to visit Puig des Molins, one of the world's largest collection of Punic artifacts, (now that they've disappeared from Bagdad.

OTHER MULTISPORT EVENTS in ibiza

Ibiza also hosts a World Cup Quadrathlon Event every year which is only fair, as quadrathlon was invented in Ibiza in 1989 by adding a kayak stretch to a Triathlon event.