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Beijing International Triathlon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ17001348 ↗
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The Beijing International Triathlon is a world-class, Olympic distance triathlon in the Fengtai District of Beijing.

The race consists of a 1.5 km swim in Qing Long Lake, a 40 km bike race from the Park to Qian Ling Mountain and back, and a 10 km run through the trails and pathways of Qing Long Lake Park.

The Beijing International Triathlon is the newest international event to be added to the Escape TO Alcatraz Triathlon Series.

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This entry incorporates text from “Beijing International Triathlon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.