Paris 2024, the World Triathlon and all the public actors involved in the project to recover the quality of the river water around the Prefect of the Île-de-France region, Prefect of Paris and the City de Paris are delighted with this first event organized in the Seine and its popular success with many spectators present all along the course to encourage the best triathletes on the planet.
The organization of this race was a first step towards the organization of the triathlon, para triathlon and marathon swimming events during the Paris 2024 Games which will take place in the Seine, in the heart of the capital, at the level of the Alexandre III bridge, at the foot of the Grand Palais and the Invalides on scenic and urban routes, designed to magnify the athletes and their performances.
As part of the World Triathlon Olympic Test Event Paris, Britain’s Beth Potter won the women’s individual event. The French Cassandre Beaugrand and the German Laura Lindemann complete the podium.
At the end of a race of rare intensity, she thus became the first athlete to win a sports competition after swimming in the Seine since 2012, and the last edition of the Paris triathlon whose swimming was organized in the Seine.
The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, a unifying project to accelerate work on the swimmability of the Seine.
The candidacy and then the awarding of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to Paris acted as an accelerator for this public policy and offered a mobilizing deadline for the recovery of the quality of the river’s water.
It has made it possible to set a clear timetable around a shared objective: to allow the holding of triathlon, para triathlon and marathon swimming competitions for the 2024 Paris Games and swimming for the general public in 2025.
The efforts undertaken since 2016 with the Bathing Plan supported by an investment of 1.4 billion euros by the State and local authorities have thus already enabled significant progress: polluted water discharges into the Seine have been divided by 10, the number of fish species recorded in the Seine has increased from 14 to 32 over the past thirty years.
At the beginning of June 2023, the analyzes of the water of the Seine carried out on the basis of the European regulations in force gave “excellent results”.
One year before the Games, the deployment of the bathing plan, co-managed by the State and the City of Paris, continues to significantly improve the quality of the water in the Seine.
As a reminder, significant measures have already been taken since 2020 to improve the quality of the water of the Seine, thanks to the commitment of many actors (State, City of Paris, SIAAP, departmental councils of 93 and 94 in particular ). Work has already been carried out and is producing effects in dry weather: commissioning in early summer 2023 of the disinfection of discharges from the two wastewater treatment plants upstream of Paris on the Seine and the Marne, or even work to bring public networks into compliance and poor connections and boat connections on the quays of the Seine.
One year before the Games, the clean-up dynamic is continuing with the completion of the most significant work to improve water quality in the coming months, in particular to cope with these exceptional weather events.
By 2024, new infrastructure will be delivered to further improve water treatment in rainy weather and thus improve water quality. As such, the Austerlitz storage basin, a cylinder 50m in diameter and more than 30m deep, will store more than 50,000 m3 of water, the equivalent of twenty Olympic swimming pools. This basin will make it possible to be better prepared for exceptional weather events by avoiding waste water spills into the Seine in the event of heavy rain. Thanks to this basin, the excess water will flow into the sewer system to be treated.
Other equipment is currently under construction and will be operational in 2024: the works planned for the Saint-Baudile watershed (Seine-Saint-Denis), the VL 8 (high-capacity collector with a length of 10 kilometers located between Essonne and Val-de-Marne) and the Val-de-Marne rainwater pollution control station aimed, like the Austerlitz basin, at receiving rainwater and treating it before it is discharged into the environment natural. All the boats and floating establishments located upstream of the site will be connected to the sewers.
Beyond the 2024 horizon, this river depollution program will make it possible to leave a legacy of the Games with a depolluted Seine, and from 2025 permanent bathing sites in the Seine, with 3 sites in Paris: at Bras Marie, at Bras de Grenelle and Quai de Bercy. Several other bathing sites will also open in Marne throughout the Greater Paris metropolis.
The State services and their partners would like to thank the emergency and security forces engaged in these sporting events, the joint mobilization making it possible to run these competitions in peaceful security conditions.
” What show ! The organization of this first triathlon test event in the heart of Paris is a real success, with swimming in the Seine, an exceptional course at the foot of the most beautiful Parisian monuments, and of course a great sporting moment! Congratulations to Cassandre for this magnificent medal and to Emma for her beautiful fourth place! And thank you to the French and international triathlon federations as well as to all the public players for their enormous work alongside us. This first day promises for the rest of the weekend! » Tony Estanguet, President of Paris 2024
« Less than a year from the Paris 2024 Games, the triathlon test event which took place today in the waters of the Seine and the streets of the capital is a success. This competition in the Seine, at the foot of the Alexandre III bridge, is the result of collective work for the reconquest of the river, supported for several years by the Mayor of Paris. The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games are a real accelerator for the transformations of the City. They will leave a strong legacy: the opening of bathing sites for the general public from summer 2025 ». Pierre Rabadan, Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of sport, the Olympic and Paralympic Games and the Seine.
“Holding this first competition in the Seine is an important step in the battle to make the Seine swimmable, it is the demonstration that the bathing plan initiated in 2020 is producing its effects, we still have to conclude it by mid-2024. to be able to cope with exceptional weather episodes, the regional prefecture is mobilized with its partners to achieve this objective“. Marc Guillaume, prefect of the Île-de-France region, prefect of Paris
« The holding of this Test Event allows, beyond the organization in terms of security but also the circulation of a major sporting event in the heart of Paris, to test the perfect coordination and inter-reactivity between the different partners who will have to work together next year, for the Olympic and Paralympic Games » Magali Charbonneau, Prefect, Chief of Staff to the Prefect of Police
“We couldn’t have dreamed of a better scenario and better competition site than what we have here in Paris. Our athletes can swim in the Seine, pedal on the Champs-Élysées, see the Arc de Triomphe, the Invalides, the Pont Alexandre III. We always dream of being in the heart of the city and the Paris site is a dream come true. Seeing so many spectators in the streets reinforces our belief that the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris next year will be an extraordinary event. » Marisol Casado, President of the International Triathlon Federation (World Triathlon)
Contacts presse :
City of Paris : Press department – 01 42 76 49 61 – presse@paris.fr
Police Department : ppcom@interieur.gouv.fr
Prefecture of the Île-de-France region, prefecture of Paris : Charles XARDEL 0645467521 – pref-presse@paris.gouv.fr
Paris 2024 : media@paris2024.org
World Triathlon: Olalla Cernuda – olalla.cernuda@triathlon.org
2023-08-17 15:01:51
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