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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.
Be at Playa de Las Cucharas by 11:00: that is the time that never fails. The four short distances go off in sequence, with no clock time at all. Entries close on Wednesday 14 at 23:59 and the cap is collected on Friday 16.
Five races on the island already have a 2027 date: four published by their organiser and one still in draft, the Costa Teguise race, which also appears in the World Triathlon calendar under a new name. What you can book today and what is still to come.
The platform announces a single start time, 10:00, and that one belongs to the 14 km: the 5 km goes off half an hour later. Entries close at 12:00 noon on Wednesday 21, not at midnight, so the last full day to sign up is Tuesday the 20th.
December leaves three races and three sports: the international marathon from the 3rd to the 5th in Costa Teguise, the Arrecife championship duathlon on the 12th and the capital's San Silvestre on the 31st. With start times, prices and the day each entry closes.
The fifth Fisiosan 5K produced 176 finishers in Playa Honda, a fastest time of 16:58 and a women's 22:25 that takes 1:38 off the previous edition. The mixed pairs had their own classification for the first time, with 21 teams.
The long race starts at 07:00 on Saturday 14 November from the Plaza de Haría, sixteen minutes before sunrise. Here is what each distance asks of you, when every checkpoint closes, and which dates fall due before race day.
The marathon, the half and the 10 km are run on Saturday 5 December, with four starts spread between 8:00 and 12:00 and the same finish line in Costa Teguise. Here is what each distance costs today, when each one closes and what to sort out first.
The race and the walk start together at 19:00 from the Club La Santa stadium, and the children's race an hour earlier. Here is what each distance asks of you, what it costs today and what the entry covers.
The two mountain bike distances set off from Calle La Concha on Saturday 7 November, an hour apart, with the finish closing at 13:30. Here is what each one asks of you, what you have to carry and which dates fall due first.
The men's podium on the three climbs is a master 30, a master 50 and a master 40, 41 seconds apart. The fastest time up Femés was set by a rider who only started on the Sunday, outside the overall standings.
The 30th edition was won in 40:44 and 51:39, and five of the six swimmers on the podium race in the junior categories. Of 490 listed, 315 made it across.
The fifth edition is run on 3 October in Playa Honda, but entries close on 29 September and can close sooner if it fills up. This year brings a mixed-pair category, and the money goes to a wheelchair hockey team.
November closes the open water year and opens the running block: the swim on the 7th and a mountain bike race on the 6th and 7th, Haría Titán from the 12th, the Night Run on the 21st, four races in four days from the 22nd and the Music Run on the 28th.
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 431 riders entered, seven out of ten 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 reaches six weeks out with 188 entries. Where the start list stands, how the distances split and where to watch the race in Puerto del Carmen.
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 not a single place was left.
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 ten classifications of the fifth edition, read right through in the official timing: 519 individual finishers, 224 pairs and fourteen teams, with the age brackets for pairs and teams.
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.
All six podiums from the Puerto del Carmen night race, with the 388 finishers the official classifications give. The press reported a figure of 500.
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.
2,093 entrants from forty nationalities took part 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.