Triton, a pretty new global triathlon series, has announced its 2025 series line up including the World Finals to be hosted in the City of Portimão, Portugal, on October 24th, 25th and 26th 2025. The final will be hosted in a ‘Triton 3’ format taking place across 3 consecutive days and hosting 6 races simultaneously: a Sprint, a Middle, a Long and a Team Corporate Series final, together with a special Country X Country Legends Team Competition and a kids race.
In a press release, Triton states to strive on innovation and aims to bring new competition and race formats to the table as well as a different business proposal with an ambitious 10-year business plan to reach 30 host nations, 60 races, 180 competitions and thousands of participants from all corners of the globe. On the business side, Triton said it’s innovation is highlighted by a market non-compete clause that awards the LRH – local rightsvholder – not just the event rights but the month, preventing other Triton events to take place in the same race format, on the same month, in the same continent. This clause aims to protect LRH and host destinations from competing directly against each other for market share preventing cannibalization. It also allows for athletes to be able to do more Triton events in the region not having to choose between races.
On the competition side, Triton brings two race formats to the table
- the ‘traditional’ one-day triathlon called Triton 1
- the more innovative and series flagship format of Triton 3, which helps to secure the best race
venues, since athletes don’t need to start in the same location which allows the destination to feature what it best has to offer when it comes to the swim, bike and run venues but it also allows for a more safety and rescue friendly event, focusing attention and resources on each discipline one at a time, a major concern for Triton. Lastly but most definitely not least, it offers a better and more extended experience at the host destination, making it a real destination promotional event.
Both race formats feature three distances at all races: the 3 distances allow for athletes that prefer a shorter or longer distance to co-experience the event together targeting a larger audience and opportunity for more to experience a finals event.
Triton 3, the finals race format, also introduces a scoring system never seen in triathlon before where what counts as the deciding factor to win is a scoring system and not the time. Athletes that finish first score 1 point, second 2 points and third 3 points. At the end of day three the points are added and the athlete with the lower score wins.
“This scoring system adds a new strategy level to the race since all disciplines now carry the same
weight to the result and it matters most to finish in front of the competition than to finish with a
big-time difference, saving energy for the next race stage.”
The new destinations confirmed to join the series together with Portugal and Brazil are the United Arabic Emirates, China, Spain and Greece. Others are also inline to come onboard, like Mexico, Uruguay, Germany and the USA.
