The BTA have issued the selection criteria for junior and elite athletes at the European Championships and for the juniors at the World Championships.

European Junior Triathlon Qualification

• Athletes who won individual medals in the European or World Junior championships 2000 will be pre selected.
• Athletes will otherwise be selected from results at the Eton Sprint Triathlon (20th May 2001), such that, if eligible, the winner of the Junior Elite race will be selected, plus other placings in order, up to the allotted Team number, allowing for the situations described below. (Athletes wishing to be considered for selection to European championships should enter as a Junior Elite competitor.)
• Athletes whose performance at Eton was influenced by a pre-declared illness (declared to BTA medical officer), or mechanical failure, can nominate results from the British Junior Championships (Terrapin Triathlon 10th June), providing they finish this race within 1:04 hours (male) or 1:09 hours (female).

World Junior Triathlon Qualification

• Athletes who won individual medals in the European or World Junior championships 2000 will be pre selected.
• Athletes placing in the top 10 at the 2001 European Junior championships will also be selected.
• Athletes will otherwise be selected from results at the Pembrokeshire Triathlon (30th June 2001), based on placings, up to the allotted Team number. Providing they finish this race within 2:05 hours (male) or 2:15 hours (female).

European Championships Senior Selection Criteria, 2001

• The top 3 ranked British triathletes on the ITU Points Table at year end 2000 pre qualify for the European Championships team.
• Other places will then be determined from 2 selection races (Funchal ITU race, May 13 and Zundert ITU race, June 4) as follows:
• An athlete placing top 3 at Funchal or winning at Zundert will be automatically selected, provided they are eligible. Remaining places, if any, would be chosen on a count back system, considering the athlete's best position, with preferential consideration given to placings at Funchal. [Rationale: The Funchal course is a similar profile to the European Champs, so needs bias towards it, as is therefore one we will fund WC athletes to. The Zundert race is of similar standard and easily accessible from the UK, so would give those WC athletes still uncertain after Funchal another opportunity, while giving those unfunded a chance to make their claims at low cost (they obviously could also fund themselves to both).]
• Teams for the Team Time Trials will be selected from the same 2 races by selection committee on developmental grounds, but will only be selected if they have the potential to medal. No athlete racing the individual race who is also likely to race the 2001 World Championships will be considered for the Team Time Trial.