CLAY­TON CLARKE

gm­sports@guardian.co.tt

Over 350 par­tic­i­pants have reg­is­tered to com­pete in this year's Rain­bow Cup Triathlon set for Tur­tle Beach, Black Rock in To­ba­go, on Sat­ur­day.

The first race, the Olympic Dis­tance Triathlon, is card­ed for 7 am with 26 run­ners list­ed to com­pete in the 1.5 km swim, 40K ride and 10K run. Somen 80 com­peti­tors have en­tered the Spring Triathlon (75mK/20K/5K).

Race di­rec­tor Ja­son Good­ing says 20 teams are down to con­test the Sprint Triathlon.

He said: "We have 19 reg­is­tered. We were cater­ing for 80 in the kids' triathlon, we got 76. In the Tri-A-Tri we got 18. In the 5K, we for 150 and all those spots are sold out right now."

Good­ing adds he is hap­py the event is re­turn­ing to its pre-COVID sta­tus, say­ing: "The re­sponse has been phe­nom­e­nal. We are very ex­cit­ed to have this event this year. This is the first re­al year back in full swing. We did have a rein­tro­duc­tion to COVID which we have last year. We re­al­ly didn't push it. We had it but we had very lit­tle spon­sor­ship so I didn't go all out. This year we are go­ing all out. (We) still need some more spon­sor­ship but we are hap­py that we had more than we had last year."

Win­ner of the 2022 Women's Olympic dis­tance triathlon Jen­na Ross is sched­uled to be among the starters this year while de­fend­ing men's sprint triathlon cham­pi­on Ja­son Castel­loe will seek to take the Olympic dis­tance crown. Kaya Ramkine-Bea­dle will be out to re­tain the ladies' sprint ti­tle.

Last year's youth win­ners Stel­la Scott, Maleah But­ler and Ty Scott are all set to be on show this year. Run­ner-up in the men's 5K Elvis Turn­er will be aim­ing for the top spot this year.

Na­tion­al women's foot­baller Asha James, who plays pro­fes­sion­al­ly in Por­tu­gal, is list­ed to com­pete.

2022 Win­ners

Olympic Dis­tance: Jen­na Ross (women) John Lit­tlepage (men)

Sprint-In­di­vid­ual: Kaya Ramkine-Bea­dle (women); Ja­son Castel­loe (men)

Try-a-Tri: Sydelle John­son (women); Guswil George (men)

Youth Tri

7-9: Stel­la Scott (girls); Ty Scott (boys)

11-12: Maleah But­ler (girls); Joshua Alexan­der (boys)

13-15: Stef­fi Scott (girls); Liam D'Abadie (boys)

5K: Jes­si­ca Saun­ders (women); Nkosi Toney (men)

Sat­ur­day's sched­ule

Olympic Dis­tance Triathlon (1.5K/40K/10K), 7 am

Sprint Triathlon-In­di­vid­ual & Team (750m/20K/5K), 7.01 am

Try-a-Tri/11-12&13-15 Triathlon (375m/10K/2.5K), 11 am

7-9 Tri (100m/1K/500m) 1 pm

1K Run/Walk, 1.30pm