| Venue |
| Ming Tomb Reservoir |
| Location |
| Changping District, Beijing |
| No. of Gold medals |
| 2 |
| Schedule |
| August 18-19 |
Invented in the early 1970s, by the San Diego Track Club, Triathlon was an alternative workout to the rigours of track training. The club's first event consisted of a 10km run, an 8km cycle and a 500 metre swim.
The official distance for triathlon was set at a 1500 metre swim, a 40km cycle and a 10km run - taken from existing events in each discipline already on the Olympic programme. Since 1989, the sport has grown rapidly and now has over a hundred affiliated national federations around the world.
At the International Olympic Committee's Congress in Paris, France, in 1994, triathlon was awarded full medal status on the Olympic programme and triathlon made its debut at the 2000 Olympic Summer Games in Sydney, Australia.
Medal Winners at Athens Games 2004