Garmin Barcelona Triathlon

The Garmin Barcelona Triathlon is one of the few competitions to combine the Olympic, Sprints and SuperSprint distances, which can be run individually or in relay teams. It aims to become a top-class popular and festive event.

Olympic, Sprints and SuperSprint distances

Garmin Barcelona Triathlon

On 17 October the Garmin Barcelona Triathlon will reaffirm Barcelona’s position as a new international triathlon capital. This figure puts Barcelona third in the European rankings, after London and Hamburg, and fifth in the world rankings.

The Barcelona competition joined the European Cities-Tri Series circuit in 2008, when 2.000 triathletes took part, but now, two years later, it has succeeded in more than doubling the number of entrants to 5.000. There has been a notable increase (30%) in the number of foreign participants, who hail from nearly thirty countries, although over half are from Britain.

The running and cycling races will take place on the city seafront, the Front Marítim, and the swimming races at Mar Bella and Nova Mar Bella beaches.

Garmin Barcelona Triathlon - 17th October

The Red Bull Air Race again in Barcelona

Red Bull Race in Barcelona

Some fifteen of the best pilots in the world will be flying over Barcelona’s beaches of Barcelona speeds of up to 370 km/h, to win the title of World Champion of the Red Bull Air Race 2009. The final race of the season (before Abu Dhabi and San Diego), on 3rd and 4th October, will be battled out over the beaches of Bogatell, Nova Icària and Mar Bella and decisive in determining the new champion.

Following the success of the 2006 event, when more than a million spectators flocked to the city’s beaches to witness this spectacular competition, the Red Bull Air Race returns to Barcelona with a new race format and planes that are lighter, faster and more agile than ever before.

This year’s spectacle of sureness, precision and sculpture-like beauty that will be taking place over the afternoon and will be “one of the most important aerial festivals to be held in Europe this year“. But besides the air race itself, there will be exhibitions on civil and military pilots, a ceremony attended by aviators from the age of the Spanish Republic, as well as the commemoration of the first flight between Toulouse (France) and Barcelona.

At the same time, the 3rd Aeronautics and Space Week, for which Toulouse will be the guest city, will take place from 28th September to 4th October. There will be talks, meetings and workshops aimed at both professionals in the field and the general public.

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