On the afternoon of September 26th, the signing and opening ceremony of " School of China Triathlon " was held in HNUST, which symbolizes the establishment of the first School of China Triathlon by a comprehensive university. Liao Xiangyue, deputy president, presided over the ceremony, and President Zhu Chuanqu and Secretary General of China Triathlon Sports Association, Chen Xiaoran, jointly unveiled the nameplate.
As President Zhu stated, HNUST has always attached great importance to sports and stayed committed to strengthening its function of cultivating people. This ceremony is a milestone. In the coming years of school running, HNUST will formulate a talent training scheme of relevant degree education, explore a path in high-level athletes’ well-rounded education and career planning, train triathletes conscientiously and set a distinctive and high-level, first-class school by taking advantage of a comprehensive university.
Secretary General Chen Xiaoran said the establishment of School of China Triathlon is of great importance to triathlon industry-university-research cooperation. HNUST will give full play to quality resources of both sides and jointly establish a four-sphere resource sharing platform among the association, university, province and city, and market, constructing a nationally leading and internationally noted school with distinctive features.
HNUST is aiming at building a “China triathlon talents training base” and a cradle for competitive sports, national fitness and sports industry talents, playing its role in multiple aspects including high-level talents training, scientific research and discipline construction, standardization and certification, competition organization and service, construction of teaching staff, international communication and cooperation and practice platform construction of university-businesses cooperation.
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Originating from Hawaii, America, triathlon is composed of swimming, road cycling and road long-distance running in order, which is an emerging modern sport. It is healthy and challenging. In 1989, triathlon was set officially in China and became an Olympic sport in 2000, and then an Asia Games event in 2006. In recent years, with the joint efforts of CTSA and people from all walks of life, triathlon has been flourishing and formed a certain market size in China.
Translated by Pan Zhuo, Qin Sijin