For the first time in major international competition, half the officials named by World Triathlon and Europe Triathlon for the Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games will be female ©Getty Images

For the first time in major international competition, half the officials named by World Triathlon and Europe Triathlon for the Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games will be female.

A total of 22 National Federations are involved in providing the international technical officials team, which will be a mix of those with experience in the previous Games and others without any former experience at such level of competition.

Europe Triathlon has previously announced that Britain's Howard Vine will be the technical delegate and Esther Sanchez of Spain the assistant technical delegate for the 2023 European Games.

The selection of technical officials from Poland will follow in due course.

The Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games will host three medal events for triathlon: individual men and women and the mixed relay.

The list of international technical officials for the triathlon event at Kraków-Małopolska 2023 has been released ©Getty Images
The list of international technical officials for the triathlon event at Kraków-Małopolska 2023 has been released ©Getty Images

Triathlon has been included on the programme of the European Games for the second time, after the first edition in 2015 at Baku in Azerbaijan.

The technical officials at Kraków-Małopolska 2023 will be: Lenka Lauren of Austria, Dirk Bogaert of Belgium, Gabriela Rakova of the Czech Republic, Raquel Gonzalez and Francisco Manuel Soriano of Spain, Eero Raudsepp of Estonia, Apolline Poas of France, Drew Matheson and Karen Smith of Britain, Ehrhardt Petter of Germany, Panagiotis Gerou of Greece, Nikoletta Göncz of Hungary, Jane O'Brien and Karl Vekins of Ireland, Claudio Di Dionisio of Italy, Aleksandr Kocetkov of Lithuania, Monika Dimovska and Bojan Nikolovski of North Macedonia, Ton Bloothoofd of The Netherlands, Liliana Sares of Portugal, Diana Miazga and Ciprian Pietris of Romania, Dejan Tepes of Slovenia, Tea Eskenazi of Serbia, Klaus Zanker of Switzerland, Pia Sundkvist de Beau of Sweden and Begüm Özüekren Kasapoğlu of Turkey.

Reserves include Anna Kvasova of Italy, Mustafa Şirin of Turkey, Elena Brovarnaya of Belgium and Viktor Vadkerti Tóth of Hungary.