Triathlon at the Commonwealth Games

Triathlon is one of the sports at the quadrennial Commonwealth Games competition. It was first granted Commonwealth Games sport status in 2002, and has been held in each edition since, except in Delhi 2010 Games due to the lack of suitable venue for the swimming leg in Delhi. Until 2022, it was a core sport which had to be included in each competition's sporting programme. Para-triathlon was first included as an optional sport in the Gold Coast 2018 games. The next appearance of the sport will take place in the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Australia^[1]

Currently there are five triathlon events in the Commonwealth Games.

Individual events are held for men and women and have been since the sport's introduction in 2002, while a mixed team relay has been on the programme since 2014.

Additionally, as part of its program of integrating parasport into the Commonwealth Games, two paratriathlon events were included in the 2018 Games in Gold Coast, Australia. These events, one for each sex, where wheelchair paratriathlon events ('PTW1' and 'PTW2' classifications) using a multiple start format to ensure fairness across different wheelchair classes. In the 2022 Games the paratriathlon events were retained, and were for athletes with visual impairments ('PTVI' classification). A third set of paratriathlon events, as yet undesignated, has been announced for Victoria 2026.

At the 1990 Commonwealth Games at Auckland, Triathlon was a demonstration event; won by Erin Baker (women) and Rick Wells (men), both from New Zealand.^[2]

Flora Duffy of Bermuda is the only triathlete of either sex to win two individual gold medals, or to win gold medals in separate Games, while Alistair Brownlee. Jodie Stimpson and Alex Yee have each won two Commonwealth Games gold medals, one individual, one mixed relay, in a single Games. Alistair Brownlee, with two golds and one silver medal, is overall the most successful triathlete in Commonwealth Games history. Jacob Birtwhistle, Matthew Hauser, Jonny Brownlee and Vicky Holland have also won 3 medals, including at least one relay gold.

Games	Year	Host city	Host country	Best nation	Events
XVII	2002	Manchester	England	Canada	2
XVIII	2006	Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	Australia	2
XX	2014	Glasgow	Scotland	England	3
XXI	2018	Gold Coast, Queensland	Australia	England	5
XXII	2022	Birmingham	England	England	5

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2002 ()	Simon Whitfield  Canada	Miles Stewart  Australia	Hamish Carter  New Zealand
2006 ()	Brad Kahlefeldt  Australia	Bevan Docherty  New Zealand	Peter Robertson  Australia
2010	not held
2014 ()	Alistair Brownlee  England	Jonathan Brownlee  England	Richard Murray  South Africa
2018 ()	Henri Schoeman  South Africa	Jacob Birtwhistle  Australia	Marc Austin  Scotland
2022 ()	Alex Yee  England	Hayden Wilde  New Zealand	Matt Hauser  Australia

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2002 ()	Carol Montgomery  Canada	Leanda Cave  Wales	Nicole Hackett  Australia
2006 ()	Emma Snowsill  Australia	Samantha Warriner  New Zealand	Andrea Hewitt  New Zealand
2010	not held
2014 ()	Jodie Stimpson  England	Kirsten Sweetland  Canada	Vicky Holland  England
2018 ()	Flora Duffy  Bermuda	Jessica Learmonth  England	Joanna Brown  Canada
2022 ()	Flora Duffy  Bermuda	Georgia Taylor-Brown  England	Beth Potter  Scotland

Mixed team

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2014	England Vicky Holland Jonathan Brownlee Jodie Stimpson Alistair Brownlee	South Africa Kate Roberts Henri Schoeman Gillian Sanders Richard Murray	Australia Emma Moffatt Aaron Royle Emma Jackson Ryan Bailie
2018	Australia Gillian Backhouse Matthew Hauser Ashleigh Gentle Jacob Birtwhistle	England Vicky Holland Jonny Brownlee Jessica Learmonth Alistair Brownlee	New Zealand Nicole van der Kaay Ryan Sissons Andrea Hewitt Tayler Reid
2022 ()	England Alex Yee Sophie Coldwell Sam Dickinson Georgia Taylor-Brown	Wales Iestyn Harrett Olivia Mathias Dominic Coy Non Stanford	Australia Jacob Birtwhistle Natalie van Coevorden Matthew Hauser Sophie Linn

Paratriathlon men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2018 PTWC	Joe Townsend  England	Nic Beveridge  Australia	Bill Chaffey  Australia
2022 PTVI	David Ellis  England pilot : Luke Pollard	Sam Harding  Australia pilot : Luke Harvey	Jonathan Goerlach  Australia pilot : David Mainwaring

Paratriathlon women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2018 PTWC	Jade Jones  England	Emily Tapp  Australia	Lauren Parker  Australia
2022 PTVI	Katie Crowhurst  England Guide: Jessica Fullagar	Chloe MacCombe  Northern Ireland Guide: Catherine A Sands	Jessica Tuomela  Australia Guide: Emma Skaug

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	England	9	4	1	14
2	Australia	3	5	8	16
3	Canada	2	1	2	5
4	Bermuda	2	0	0	2
5	South Africa	1	1	1	3
6	New Zealand	0	3	3	6
7	Wales	0	2	0	2
8	Northern Ireland	0	1	0	1
9	Scotland	0	0	2	2
Totals (9 entries)		17	17	17	51

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