2023 Aquabike World Championships Ibiza Race Report

186 male and 127 female athletes finished the Long Distance Aquabike Championships last Sunday in Ibiza. After smaller fields of starters in the previous editions this was the biggest aquabike race since the 2019 World Championships in Pontevedra (where they will again be held in 2025). After the 3 km swim athletes had to tackle a quite demanding 116 km bike course under perfect weather conditions – except maybe for the wind which certainly didn´t make the bike leg easier. The race was perfectly organized – apart from one little (or maybe not so little) thing. But more about that a bit later…

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2023 Aquabike World Champoinships Ibiza Race Preview

In most parts of North America and Europe the Triathlon and Aquabike racing season has not started yet. For many athletes it will start with the biggest race of the season. After the Multisport World Championships had to be split up to several events the last two years, there will be a fully packed racing programme this week in Ibiza with Duathlon, Aquathlon, Cross Triathlon and Duathlon, Mixed Relay and the Grande Finale on Sunday, May 7^th – the Long Distance Triathlon and Aquabike World Championships.

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Would you rather race for money or for glory?

It might sound weird to ask this question on an aquabike website. As aquabike athlete you have some chances to race for glory at National Championships but also at European and World Championships. There is however no option to race for money. But there will be one exception in 2023.

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2022 Aquabike Review, Part V – Impressive Wins & Thrilling Races

In the last part of our 2022 Aquabike Season Review we take a look at the races with the smallest and biggest winning margins. Last year we saw some quite impressive performances with comfortable victories and also races with only a few seconds between first and second place. We show you the closest and clearest wins in aquabike races in 2022.

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2022 Aquabike Review, Part IV – The biggest races

Which aquabike races had the most finishers in 2022? It´s not a big surprise that the World, European and US National Championships are the aquabike races which attract the most athletes. But there are also some other events all around the world with a significant number of aquabikers competing. It´s great to see that not only the number of events is growing continuosly. Also the size of some races show how fast this multisport discipline is growing.

So let´s take a closer look…

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2022 Aquabike Review, Part III – most active & most successful Athletes

In todays review of the 2022 aquabike season we take a look at the most active and most successful aquabike athletes of the year. With a much bigger choice of races it´s not a surprise that the athletes with the most races and also with the most wins in 2022 came from the United States and Great Britain. The athletes who raced the most in terms of racing distance however do not come from any of those countries.

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2022 Aquabike Season Review, Part II – Some Statistics

In 2022 we had 871 aquabike races taking place worldwide. The biggest number – not very surprising – in the United States, with a total number of 542 races (83 more than in 2021). We had 127 races in the UK (+22), 61 in Canada (+48), 42 in Australia (+13), 24 in New Zealand (+8) and 15 in Spain (+10). As pleasant as those growing numbers are you should keep in mind that in 2021 the racing season still was a bit shortened due to covid restrictions. This is especially the case in Canada where the 2021 racing season started pretty late.

A total number of 7365 athletes finished an aquabike race. That´s 34% more than in 2021. The share of participating men and women didn´t change much. With 55,8% male aquabike finishers we had a slight shift towards the male side here (55,6 % in 2021). The explanation is probably that we had quite a few new aquabike races in countries where the share of male aquabikers is much bigger in general, which is especially the case in southern and eastern Europe. In the following chart you can see the different distribution in agegroup of male and female athletes.

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Aquabike 2022 Season Review - Part I

871 aquabike races in 25 countries (including six new countries on the Aquabike.World map), national aquabike championships in 12 countries (3 new), the first ever standard distance aquabike World Championships and thousands of happy faces on the finishline, many of them finishing their first ever aquabike race. That´s the summary of the 2022 aquabike racing season.

In early 2021 in some countries many events still had to be cancelled. So 2022 marked the first full racing season for many athletes after the pandemic years. Multisport racing was back in full operation mode and all international championships could take place as planned.

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The new Aquabike.World Ranking

With the switch from aquabike.events to Aquabike.World our Aquabike Ranking Europe now became the Aquabike.World Ranking.

We have now listed all aquabike race results from all around the world from January 1^st 2021. So you can also check the past ranking from 2021.

In the current ranking we have more than 4000 athletes in the Men´s Ranking and more than 3000 athletes in the Women´s Ranking from 37 countries.

If you look at the current ranking it might be a bit of a surprise that European Athletes are still quite dominant in the top ranks (at least in the men´s ranking) – quite different to the 2021 ranking. There were two a bit extraordinary circumstances last year which had an influence here. The European Championships in Bilbao have been the biggest race of the season with the most points to grab. There were less competitors at the long distance World´s in Samorin – probably due to the relatively late announcement of date and location of the event this year after the original location in Australia had to be cancelled. And also the first ever Standard Distance World Championships attracted less athletes. In this case probably rather because of the exotic location and unusual time of the year, long after the season for most athletes in the northern hemisphere was over.

The second factor might be a bit controversial.

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Hello Aquabike.World!

It´s done! On the 4th of January 2023 aquabike.events became Aquabike.World. We are no longer limited to Europe, but list every single aquabike race all around the world. This alone is a huge change. With hundreds of aquabike events each year especially in the United States, but also quite a bunch of races in Canada, Australia and New Zealand the workload for the event research multiplied. But there is much more to it…

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