Maharashtra bags GOLD Miniorange ITF Mixed Relay National Triathlon Championships 2023.

Pune , August 17, 2023: Maharashtra emerged champion in mixed team relay event at the Miniorange ITF National Triathlon Championships 2023 which is being organized by Maharashtra Triathlon Association under aegis of Indian Triathlon Federation held at Shree Shivchatrapati Kreeda Sankul, Mahalunge Balewadi, Pune on 17th August.

The Championship had participation from 14 states, each athlete of the the 4 member team had to complete swim 250m 6.2km cycle 2.4km run.

Maharashtra team held the lead from the beginning and won the GOLD, Wherein Tamilnadu and Gujarat made a remarkable comeback to win Silver and Bronze respectively from 8th and 10th position.

The very technical bike course and rain tested the skills of athletes, the course had 9 turns and 3 uturn keeping the crowd guessing throughout the race.

The prizes were given away by Mr Dayanand Kumar President Maharashtra Triathlon Association, Mr. Rajendran Nimbalte Secretary, Maharashtra Triathlon Association and Mr Prabhat Sharma Technical Delegate.

Mr Harish Prasad Development Officer Indian Triathlon Federation added Mixed Relay is an exciting format in triathlon, our triathletes are good in short distance format, it was great to see India’s best athletes competing together. This event had the 4 athletes who took part in recently concluded Commonwealth Youth Games and 6 athletes going to take part in Asian 2023

Following are the results: (1st, 2nd and 3rd); Mixed Relay Team total time:

1. Maharashtra(Kaushik Malandkar, Sanjana Joshi, Parth Mirage, Mansi Mohite, 1:48:10 secs),
2. Tamilnadu (Akash Perumalsamy, Keerthi Sakthvel, Vaman Sakthvel, Aarthi S, 1:50:10 sec),
3. Gujarat (Nitai Randeria, Heny Zalavadiya, Krishiv Patel, Pragnya Mohan, 1:50:21 secs)