Triathlon: Sprint Championships 2021-22

DATE

Sunday 1^st May 2022

VENUE

Westonbirt House, Westonbirt, Nr Tetbury, Glos, GL8 8QG

ENTRY COST

£50 for BTF members

£55 for non-BTF members

ENTRY OPENING DATE

Tuesday 8^th March 2022

ENTRY CLOSING DATE

Student Deadline - Tuesday 19 April 2022

(Students/Competitors must apply by this deadline)

Institution Administrator Deadline – Thursday 21 April 2022

(Institutional Administrators are given 48 hours after the student/competitor deadline to approve entries)

STAGED ENTRY

Should the competition allow more entries a Stage 2 Entry window will open. Priority will remain with the entries received before the Stage 1 entry closing date. Entries received in the Stage 2 window and accepted into the competition, will be charged an additional 20% fee.

To apply for this competition:

1. Competitor to complete competition application on BUCS Play
2. Institution administrator approves entry
3. BUCS approves/denies entry into competition and publishes confirmed entry list.

Any data will be handled in accordance with BUCS Privacy Policy
By participating in this event you agree to adhere to BUCS General Event Disclaimer
To check whether you are eligible to compete in BUCS competitions, please visit BUCS Individual Eligibility REG 4.

The BUCS Sprint Triathlon will comprise of a 400 metre (16 length) pool swim, 22km bike, 5km run.

A 400 metre, 16 length swim, followed by a 1 lap bike course on open roads of just left turns (see the route HERE), and a 3 lap closed road run route of mixed terrain (approx. 3k on tarmac and 2k on short grass/trail, view the route HERE).

Institutions can request 10 guaranteed entries per competition and 50 non-guaranteed; however should the event reach capacity BUCS may need to restrict the number of entries per institution. Therefore when submitting entries on BUCS Play, for both the Men’s Race and Women’s Race competitors should be sorted into your ranked order of preference before being submitted.

• Individual Men's Championship 
• Individual Women's Championship 
• Overall Men's and Women's Team Men's and Women's)

For the team results, extracted from the individual race results, the fastest 3 competitors per institution shall have their times (not placings) combined, with the best team being that with the lowest combined time. Only 1 team per institution will be counted.

A full breakdown of BUCS Points can be found in Appendix 1.

Race Length

• 400m (16 length) pool swim / 1 lap 22km bike course / 3 lap 5km run route

Timings

• Registration and venue opens – 07:30 onwards
• Swim starts from 09:30. Swim waves are based on estimated swim times and will be released 1 week before the event.
• All buses on site no later than 09:30. If you will be arriving by bus later than this, please contact the race organiser on [email protected] to arrange.

Please note: The timetable is subject to change depending on entry numbers. Final wave times will be released in the Event Guide once entries close.

There are campsites and hotels locally, you can view some of the local sites HERE. For a list of local accommodation, please click HERE.