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title: "What is the game included in Triathlon other than swimming and running race ?"  
description: "What is the game included in Triathlon other than swimming and running race ?"  
author: "Rajib Ahluwalia"  
published: 2018-07-22  
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# What is the game included in Triathlon other than swimming and running race ?

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## Answers

### Answer by Harshal Vispute

**A triathlon is a multi-sport endurance event that includes swimming, cycling, and running**. The sport arose from an American obsession for **long-distance running and fitness in the 1970s** and was **first featured as an Olympic sport at the Sydney 2000 Games.**

**Other than the Swimming and Running races, Cycling is the sport that is included in a Trithlon.**

**On September 25, 1974,** a contest organized by **local athletes Jack Johnstone and Don Shanahan has termed a triathlon in San Diego, California. 46 athletes competed in the 460-meter (500-yard) swim, 9.6-kilometer (6-mile) run, and 8-kilometer bike race (5 miles)**. Several years later, the **Hawaiian Ironman was founded by John Collins, a US Navy officer stationed in Hawaii who had finished 35th in the San Diego race. A 3.8-kilometer (2.4-mile) swim precedes a 180-kilometer (112-mile) bicycle ride and a 42-kilometer (26.2-mile) run in this triathlon (the equivalent of a marathon).**

The original Hawaiian Ironman triathlon drew only **15 athletes,** but the race swiftly acquired international notice and established itself as the sport's premier championship. The Hawaiian Ironman attracted more than **1,600 athletes from more than 50 countries around the turn of the twenty-first century.**

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