The event takes place over a 4K swim, 120K bike and 30K run course, which promises to be flat and offers the chance for some fast times. Athletes will swim in the bay of Motala on the eastern shore of the beautiful Lake Vattern before cycling through the countryside and back through the centre of Motala on the three-lap course.

 

There is one challenging climb that should help break the field up before they embark on the three-lap run course on trails and unpaved roads, much of which is along the shore of Lake Vattern. The whole course is spectator friendly and should make for a great atmosphere.

 

The Great Britain Age-Group Team includes some strong contenders for medals, including David Patten (60-64), who won gold at the 2014 Weihai ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships and Victoria Hill (40-44) who won silver.

 

"We've got quite a strong team," Dawn Hunter, the Great Britain Age-Group Team manager said, "including some medallists and fourth-placed athletes from Weihai so we'll be hoping for medals again this time."

 

"It will be great to finally get the team there and to see them race. We've had quite a few people who have been slightly injured or have come back from injury just in time to do the race and we've got quite a lot of people who haven't raced for GB before so that is quite exciting."

 

Great Britain will be represented in the Elite races by Amy Forshaw and Joe Skipper. Amy will be hoping to add a world title to the Ironman Wales title she won last year while Joe will be aiming to go one better than his second place at last year's Ironman UK.