Catch-up: British Triathlon Mixed Relay Cup

1. Teams of four athletes - two men and two women - race in London Docklands
2. Course comprises a 300m swim, 5.6km bike and 1.4km run
3. Leeds Team I win Mixed Relay Cup for second year in a row
4. Tom Bishop and Georgia Taylor-Brown part of Leeds team alongside Lucy Hall & Sam Dickinson
5. Jodie Stimpson's Loughborough team finishes second, Australia third
6. Mixed Relay will be included in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Watch: Holland wins World Series gold

Triathlon World Series: Holland takes gold in Edmonton as GB has four in top five

Vicky Holland competes for Team Bath at the British Triathlon Mixed Relay Cup.

Watch the Olympic bronze medallist win gold in the women’s sprint race during the most recent leg of the World Triathlon Series, in Edmonton last month.

Compatriots Georgia Taylor-Brown (Team Leeds) and Jodie Stimpson (Team Loughborough I), who are also in action this weekend, finished third and fifth respectively.

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Can Leeds secure back-to-back wins?

Watch some of the best British triathletes compete at last year's Mixed Relay Cup

Following the inaugural competition in Nottingham last September, the British Mixed Relay Cup heads to London for its second year.

The event sees British Triathlon’s various performance centre squads from across the country go head-to-head. This year’s race will also feature four international teams, with squads from Australia, France, New Zealand and the USA all set to take part.

Several of the country’s biggest names in triathlon are due to compete, including many of those who have represented Great Britain in this year’s World Triathlon Series.

After helping Leeds to the title 12 months ago, Tom Bishop and Georgia Taylor-Brown will team-up once again in this year’s race alongside Lucy Hall.

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BBC Coverage

BBC Sport will be showing all the action from the British Triathlon Mixed Relay Cup in London.

Saturday, 4 August

18:05-19:45 BST – Connected TV and online

This year’s race takes place in conjunction with the London Triathlon. The route starts in the London Docklands and features a 300m swim, 5.6km bike and 1.4km run.

How does the mixed relay work?

Rather than the individual races people are used to seeing in triathlon, mixed relay sees both male and female triathletes compete as a team of four.

Each member of the team, comprising two men and two women, is required to complete a "mini-triathlon" usually consisting of a 300m swim, 7km bike and 1.5km run course, before tagging their team-mate.

Introduced by the ITU in 2009 to replace the separate men's and women's relay titles, the mixed relay has grown in significance and has featured at both the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games.

The event is set to make its Olympic debut at the 2020 Games in Tokyo.

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Get Inspired: How to get into triathlon

Get Inspired

#GetInspired

Like running, swimming or cycling? Fancy doing all three, one after the other? If you answered yes to the previous two questions, then triathlon is the sport for you!

The Olympic distances are a 1.5km swim, followed by a 40km cycle, rounded off with a 10km run. But don't feel daunted, it really is for everybody, as 63-year-old grandma Sue Faulkner proved in 2015!

The sport has a range of distances and formats to cut your teeth on, and as long as your daily exercise includes all three disciplines, you can call yourself a triathlete with pride.

Find out more about getting involved in triathlon here.

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