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Alejandro Mayor and Yasmina Castro take a third straight win in the Famara Total queen distance, in a three-day edition that also saw a double from Yoel de Paz and Anya Lamprecht.
November closes the open water year and opens the running block: two swims and a mountain bike race on the 7th, Haría Titán from the 12th, the Night Run on the 21st and four races in four days from the 22nd.
October is the busiest month of the Lanzarote autumn: a two-stage road cycling race, a brand new trail with four distances finishing at the Mirador del Río, the island's October triathlon and a village race in Teguise.
The first edition lands on 17 October with more than 500 entries and the only ultra on Lanzarote. The organiser's own track shows where it is decided: at kilometre 45, at the foot of the Risco de Famara, there are 550 metres of climbing left in four kilometres.
The third edition starts on 3 October with 394 riders entered, three out of four of them over 40. Only three climbs are timed; the rest is 189 kilometres ridden in a group across the island's seven municipalities.
The Olympic distance already has 188 entries, 25 fewer than finished it in 2025, and as of today none of those who reached the podium in the last two editions is on the list.
The 30th edition is swum on 19 September. In 2025 it came down to six seconds between a swimmer in his early twenties and one in his sixties, and this year all 400-odd places are gone.
Østergaard closed the race 4:28 up on Luis León Sánchez, and 4:21 of that lead was already banked after two stages. For the women, it was all the time trial.
All six podium places fell within 47 seconds. The winner ran the 1.6 km at 3:08 per kilometre through the streets of La Santa.
The hybrid race left the sports ground for a square on the promenade. Record turnout and, for the first time in five editions, not a single published result.
The tenth Tinajo You Trail produced 363 finishers in Mancha Blanca. David Cruz took the long course and Tanausú Cabrera added another win over 14 km.
More than 1,250 students and teachers from 23 schools raced from Puerto Calero to IES Yaiza. Rain and the sea left the swim in doubt until an hour before the start.
The press reported 500 runners; the official classifications give 388. All six podiums from the Puerto del Carmen night race.
The first San Leandro Trail drew 147 runners to Teseguite. Raúl Caraballo took the long trail and Dani García the short one.
The Transajaches returned to Femés after seven years. Tanausú Cabrera took the 20 km in 1:42:01 and CM El Jable filled the top two places.
Around 350 runners in Tinajo's carnival race. Tinguaro Quintero and Naomi Hodel won the 10.4 km; Tanausú Cabrera and Cristina Molina took the 5.2 km.
172 swimmers classified over 1,500 metres at the El Poril cove. The Nadamas club took all six places on the overall men's and women's podiums.
The top three men finished within eighteen seconds. 300 competitors on Las Cucharas beach in the opening round of the Canary Islands triathlon series.
The 4 kilometres between Arrecife and Playa Honda were won by a swimmer from the infantil category, aged 13 to 15, in 54:24. In the women's race, Sheila Pulido in 58:46.
Fourteen seconds decided the women's podium at the oldest triathlon on Lanzarote. And the super sprint handed out six age group podiums in the same morning.
350 participants across the three distances named after grain measures: Fanega, Almud and Cuartillo. Sergio Machín and Belinda Guillén won the long one.
More than 1,900 runners from thirty nationalities ran among the vineyards of La Geria. Yerove Rodríguez and Aroa Merino repeated their win in the long distance.
450 runners across three distances between La Garita beach and Punta Mujeres. The 10 km were settled in 33:17 and 38:52, in a race that ends with a midnight concert.
The queen distance of Lanzarote's oldest open water swim was won in 14:04, with more than 200 swimmers between La Rocar beach and the ramp of the Real Club Náutico de Arrecife.
Adrián Hernández and Anya Lamprecht won the 10.5 km at Trail La Vegueta 2026, in an edition that brought together more than 400 participants across four formats.
May centred on IRONMAN Lanzarote, closed the youth triathlon block and pointed towards Wine Run, trail running and summer open-water races.
Sam Laidlow and Lucy Charles-Barclay dominated IRONMAN Lanzarote 2026 in an edition that again showed why the island is one of long-distance triathlon's hardest stages.
Lanzarote's youth championship brought together aquathlon and triathlon sessions at Lago de La Santa, with sporting and development value for the island's young athletes.
Preparing your first triathlon in Lanzarote is not just about training volume. The island asks you to choose wisely, respect the wind and arrive organised.
Lanzarote has a triathlon calendar with long-distance, Olympic, popular and international racing. This article helps organise the key events.
A look at the events that help explain why Lanzarote is a reference island for outdoor sport and endurance racing.
Dieter Comhair and Lucy Charles-Barclay won the 2026 Volcano Triathlon, an edition with more than 350 athletes and Club La Santa's historic stamp.
Francesc Godoy and Deborah Van Gossum won the Olympic distance at Magma Yaiza Triathlon 2026, with Kilian Martín and Grace Kelly taking the sprint.
David Cantero and Nina Eim won the 2026 World Triathlon Cup Lanzarote in Costa Teguise, a sprint-distance event that opened a new international chapter for the island.