The festival started with SWIMSTAR open water swims at distances of 1 and 2 nautical miles. The participants covered 1,852 km and 3,704 km, respectively, in the waters of the Imereti port. Also on Friday, the STARKIDS children’s 500 m and 1000 m race took place, and the IRONLADY women’s 5 km race ended the first day of the festival. On the same day, the athletes were able to discuss how to build a training regimen and where to start preparing for the first triathlon as part of the public talk for girls “The Guide to a Successful Woman.” Athlete and blogger Anastasia Tukmacheva, nutritionist Anastasia Zhukova, CCM in swimming Ekaterina Sugrobova and triathlete Maria Malysheva shared their experience with the participants.
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Saturday and Sunday were dedicated to triathlon races. On Saturday, October 7, the first to start were the participants of the main race of the season — IRONSTAR 226 SOCHI SIRIUS 2023, for which the triathletes had been preparing for the whole season. As part of the competition, they covered 3.86 km of swimming, 180 km of cycling and 42 km of running. After completing this distance, 486 people became truly “iron”. In addition, on Saturday the participants also tried their hand at the 113 km race, which includes 1.93 km of swimming, 90 km of cycling and 21 km of running. On the same day, professionals competed for prizes at the Russian Long Distance Championship, the winners of which were Ilya Prasolov and Yulia Golofeeva.
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Among the participants there was a record number of paraathletes for one festival — more than 50 people at different distances. Also, 10 children with Down syndrome took part in the children’s race.
The sports festival concluded with triathlon races at OLYMPIC distances (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling, 10.5 km running) and the shortest – SPRINT (0.75 km swimming, 20 km cycling, 5.25 km running).
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The festival in Sirius is considered one of the most picturesque in terms of routes: the swimming stage in the bay of the Imereti port, the cycling stage route began on the coast and then went into the mountains along the Adler-Krasnaya Polyana Olympic route, and the running stage passed along the Black Sea coast.