Triathlon Ireland hosting talent identification days in all four provinces

*Ireland’s Seban McDonnell in the European Triathlon Junior Cup, Phoenix Park, Dublin, earlier this year. Now Triathlon Ireland is trying to identify other young talent (Photo: James Crombie-Inpho)*

Triathlon Ireland is looking for new emerging talent that it can identify for development in the years ahead. The national governing body is hold four talent ID days - one in each of the four provinces - next month.

They are aimed at athletes in two aged groups; those aged 14 to 15 yeas and also aged 16 to 19 years. They will compete in a trial event, with their times for swimming and running scoring points and the overall tally for each athlete being used to grade each participant and ultimately identity talent.

Those in the 14-15 years ago group will complete a 200m swim time-trial and a 1500m run time-trial. Athletes aged between 16-19 years will complete a 400m swim time-trial and a 3000m run time-trial.

Triathlon Ireland has shared world class timing-points calculator - which you can find here - containing the points that will be allocated to times for the swim and run. Athletes who achieve 150 points will be invited onto the national squad and those who achieve 130-149 points will be invited onto the horizon squad.

You can find details of the talent ID days below, the first of which takes place at University of Limerick, for the Munster region, on October 7th, and you can also register by clicking on the links below.

The Leinster trial takes place the following day, October 8th, at The Watershed, Bohernatounish Road, Kilkenny. Connacht-based athletes get their chance on October 14th at University of Galway while the Ulster trial is on October 22nd at Antrim Forum, Belfast.