II Duatlón Supersprint Ciudad de Arrecife

Event information

A warning about the date

The federation gives two different dates for this race, and here we go with 12 December. Its May notice announced 31 October 2026 as the new date after the February postponement. Its own registration platform opens the duathlon for Saturday 12 December 2026 at 12:00.

What settles it is not which source sounds more official, but this: entries close on 7 December. An entry period that closes five weeks after the race does not exist. So 31 October is dead in the system that runs the race, even if the notice is still up. On top of that, the federation’s competition register has held two records since 6 May: the old one, titled «II DUATLÓN ARRECIFE (aplazada)», postponed, and a new, clean one last touched on 5 August, three months after the notice.

Even so it is listed here as pending confirmation, because these are two sources from the organiser itself in conflict, and only one of them is dead for a reason we work out ourselves. Checked on 2 October 2026. Before booking travel or accommodation, write to competiciones@fecantri.org or call 633 868 407.

About the event

The II Duatlón Supersprint Ciudad de Arrecife is taking entries for 12 December 2026, and that is not its original date. It was scheduled for 28 February and was postponed the day before, on the 27th, when the Canary Islands government and Arrecife town council ordered outdoor activity in Lanzarote to be suspended because of a storm. FECANTRI later announced 31 October as the new date, and its platform ended up opening entries for 12 December.

The race brings together three championships, titled by its own rules as the Campeonato de Canarias de Duatlón Supersprint, the Campeonato de Canarias de Duatlón Supersprint por Clubes and the Campeonato de Canarias de Duatlón Infantil, Cadete y Juvenil. It is organised by the Canary Islands Triathlon Federation and Arrecife town council, with José Israel Caraballo Nieves as race director. The official launch was held at La Recova in Arrecife.

There are rules, and they say plenty

The rules exist and are public: they hang off the race page on the federation’s website, titled «II DUATLÓN CIUDAD DE ARRECIFE 2026» with the date 28/02/2026 on the cover. Alongside them are the two technical meetings, the general one and the junior one, with the maps and the programme. They are February documents, from the date that fell through, and the federation has not published new versions for the December date, checked on 2 October 2026. In the meantime they are the only detailed description of the race there is.

What comes out of them and was not on this page before:

• There is a cut-off time. Article 1: «Se establece un tiempo de corte de 32 minutos para empezar a correr el tercer sector. Si al cumplirse el tiempo sigue en el área de transición, el JA de la prueba hará el corte del duatleta y no podrá iniciar el último sector». Thirty-two minutes to be out on the third leg; anyone still in transition when the time is up is cut by the head referee and cannot start the last leg.
• A licence or a one-day insurance is required. Article 2.1: those who may take part are «todos los triatletas con licencia en vigor de triatlón para el año 2026 y aquellos que, no teniéndola, formalicen el “seguro de un día” durante su inscripción», athletes with a 2026 triathlon licence, or without one, those who take out the one-day insurance as they enter.

Course and distances

The race is held on a city circuit completely closed to traffic, and all three legs are run in laps:

• 2.5 km run, 2 laps
• 8 km bike, 4 laps
• 1.5 km run, 1 lap

The rules add that the final distances «será determinada y validada por el DT de la prueba», will be set and validated by the technical delegate, that the first leg is a flat out-and-back circuit with three turn points run anticlockwise, and that on the bike leg same-gender drafting is allowed.

The exact start and finish point has not been published, checked on 2 October 2026. The launch was held at La Recova, and the technical meeting places bib collection «en el área de meta, carpa de cronometraje», in the finish area, at the timing tent, but neither document says which street the arch goes up on.

Super sprint format means short and very fast, at the limit throughout. There is no room to mishandle a transition, and with four bike laps the course turns technical at every corner.

Race day, hour by hour

The times are those of the programme published for 28 February. If the race is run in December they will need confirming, but the shape of the day is this:

• 9:00 to 11:15, bib collection in the finish area, at the timing tent. Careful, because there are two versions from the same organiser here as well: the technical meeting says «de 9:00 a 11:15 (horario para todos los atletas)» and the rules say «en horario de 10:00 h a 11:15 h».
• 10:00 to 11:30, equipment check.
• 11:45, call room check.
• 12:00, start of men’s semi-final 1; 12:02, the women’s. 12:45 and 12:47, the second semi-finals.
• 13:30, the infantil race. 14:15, 14:30 and 14:45, the junior categories by age group, oldest to youngest.
• 15:00, men’s final. 15:45, women’s final.
• 16:30, prize ceremony. The rules give notice: «el deportista deberá estar presente en la entrega de premios si quiere optar a los premios económicos», athletes have to be at the ceremony to be eligible for the prize money.

Semi-finals, finals and age limits

The semi-finals are not guaranteed: they depend on how many people enter. The rules put it in the conditional, «en función del número final de inscritos, se podrán disputar semifinales clasificatorias», and article 6 sets the thresholds: with fewer than 30 entries in one gender «se celebrará final directa», a straight final; between 31 and 40, 24 go through; with more than 40 per gender, through go «los 12 mejores deportistas de cada serie y los 6 mejores tiempos de las 2 semifinales».

It has to be said that the rules trip over themselves here: their descriptive part claims that «los 40 mejores deportistas de esta modalidad accederán a la final», and article 6 never produces 40 finalists. The article wins, because it is the binding part.

And the minimum age is not a single figure either. The race description talks about under-18s taking part «a partir de los 12 años, correspondientes a la categoría infantil», which is what this page used to say. But article 2.6 prices entries «desde la categoría Prebenjamín a Infantil», and the technical meeting programme lists races for alevín, benjamín and prebenjamín, which are categories below 12. Put plainly: 12 is the minimum age for the Canary Islands infantil, cadete and juvenil championship, not for the whole day, which has races laid on for the youngest.

Entry

Entries go through the FECANTRI platform. Anyone already entered for 28 February keeps their place without doing anything: the federation announced that entries made for the earlier date stand. Those unable to make the new date could request a refund up to the closing of entries, which the platform puts at 23:59 on 7 December.

There are two entry periods here too, and the one in the rules no longer applies. Article 2.2 says: «El plazo oficial de inscripciones se abrirá el lunes 2 de febrero las 12:00 y finalizará el miércoles 25 de febrero las 23.59h». That is the window for the date that fell through, and it really did close on 25 February. The platform later opened a new one, from 6 May to 7 December 2026 at 23:59, and that is the live one. The rules have not been rewritten for the new date, checked on 2 October 2026, so they carry the February dates all the way through the document.

The fee and the closing date are published: the federation platform gives both, checked on 12 September 2026. The platform gives the start time: 12:00. What is still unpublished is the field limit, checked on 2 October 2026. To ask, use competiciones@fecantri.org and 633 868 407.

Planning your race

Be careful with the calendars in circulation. The FECANTRI provisional calendar, closed in February, still lists the race on 28 February, and several aggregators repeat that date. And be equally careful with the new dates. FECANTRI’s own competition register still titles the race «II DUATLÓN ARRECIFE (aplazada)» in its older record and gives no date at all; the notice announcing 31 October has not been touched since 6 May; and the federation’s live calendar leaves that 31 October empty. Several aggregators repeat one day or the other. Until the federation clears it up in writing, the date here stays flagged as provisional: we give the one whose entry period is still open and leave the reasoning in plain sight, so anyone can judge it.

Racing in Arrecife in December is nothing like doing it in February: mild temperatures, the shortest days of the year, and a midday start that keeps clear of that short light. And because it is a closed city circuit run in laps, anyone coming to watch has the best possible plan: stand in one spot and see the field go past seven times without moving.