World Quadrathlon Federation

In the expected warm conditions, the eighth stage of the WQF World Cup was held last weekend in the Slovakian town of Komarno, near the Hungarian border. With a course of 750m swimming, 20km cycling, 4km kayaking and 5km running, the Czech, Tomáš Svoboda, was a strong favourite to finish first. Although he did so, he was only able to ... read more

The Box End Quadrathlon was always going hot, with the high temperatures we’d been having, but the racing too was certainly a scorcher too! Ettiene Stott, the 2012 Olympic Gold Medalist in C2 Slalom was going to be competing along with current WQF Champion leader, Ferenc Csima from Hungary. With World and British Trophy series points up for grabs we ... read more

As expected, there was a duel between the currently two best quadrathletes, Gergő Badar (HUN) and Tomaš Svoboda (CZE), at the middle distance World Championships in Týn on the Vltava (CZE) last Saturday. Svoboda took the lead in the 1.5km swim over two laps, each involving a slight current. Only two minutes behind him, Badar followed him on to the ... read more

On June 23, the sprint distance Deseda Q30 was organized at the Deseda lake near Kaposvár. The race was part of the Quadrathlon World Cup and of the Quadrathlon Hungarian Cup. The young competitors showed excellent performance as they occupied four podium places from the possible six in the absolute qualification. The location changed slightly compared to last year ... read more

Congratulations to The Adirondack village of Indian Lake, they were the first venue in the United States to host a quadrathalon. The “Do the Q” event was on June 16th and consisted of a 750km swim, 8km kayak paddle, 30k bike ride, and 10k run, in accordance with World Quadrathalon Federation guidelines. Len the organiser has sent us his overview ... read more

What a weekend in Hannover, what a long distance! The names on the start list did not promise such excitement and the Quadrathlon Long Distance World Championships, set in the water park of Limmer Triathlon, will be remembered by many. It started on Sunday morning at 7:15 in good dry conditions, around 22 degrees during the day. Tomáš Svoboda (CZE) ... read more

The latest round of the World Cup, which was also the first race in the British National Trophy, was held on Sunday in Brigg, England. This well established event which opens the British Quadrathlon series was run with its usual excellent organisation. This year the weather also co-operated – being dry, hot (but not excessively so) and a bit breezy. ... read more

Last weekend, the best quadrathletes met on the little river Křetínka in the small Czech town of Lazinov to take part in the European Middle Distance Championpionship (1.5km swim-40km bike-8km kayak-10km run). Last year, the World Championships took place here over the long distance, which will be held this year in Hanover in two weeks. The Czech Republic, therefore, offered ... read more