# Triathlon at the 2023 European Games – Men's individual

The triathlon individual race for men at the 2023 European Games, in Kraków, was held on 28 June 2023. A total of 60 men competed over the 'standard' or 'Olympic' distance. This was the second appearance of triathlon in the European Games program after 2015. Neither the reigning champion, Gordon Benson of Great Britain, nor reigning European champion, David Castro Fajardo, started.

## Schedule

| Date | Event | Time (local) |
| 28 June 2003 | Men's individual | 10:00 a.m. |
| 28 June 2003 | Medal ceremony | 12:20 p.m. |

## Current champions

This will be the second European Games men's individual event. The current Olympic, World, Continental and European Games champions are as follows:
| Event | Current champion | Venue | Year |
| Olympic Games | Kristian Blummenfelt (NOR) | Tokyo | 2020 |
| World Triathlon Championships | Léo Bergere (FRA) | Various | 2022 |
| European Games | Gordon Benson (GBR) | Baku | 2015 |
| European Triathlon Championships | David Castro (ESP) | Madrid | 2023 |

## Qualification

The fifty-four highest ranked athletes per sex on the Europe Triathlon Ranking as of 3 May 2023 are allocated one quota place for their NOC, respecting the maximum quota allocation of three per NOC per event. In case the NOC already obtained the quotas, they will not be allocated these quota places. Any nation which qualifies two men and two women will be eligible for the team event.

## Paris 2024 qualification

Triathlon is one of the events where performance in the 2023 Games impacts indirectly on Olympic qualification, by way of ranking points. The event will therefore be held over the Olympic distance; a 1500-metre swim, a 40 km bike ride and a 10 km run.

## Results

Triathlon Europe confirmed the following athletes for the event on 7 June 2023.
| Rank | # | Triathlete | Nation | Swimming | T1 | Cycling | T2 | Running | Total | Difference |
| | 8 | Vetle Bergsvik Thorn | Norway | 18:30 | 0:52 | 56:37 | 0:26 | 30:27 | 1:46:50 | |
| | 6 | Shachar Sagiv | Israel | 19:02 | 0:54 | 56:03 | 0:26 | 30:27 | 1:46:51 | +0:01 |
| | 2 | Adrien Briffod | Switzerland | 18:31 | 0:50 | 56:39 | 0:23 | 30:31 | 1:46:52 | +0:02 |
| 4 | 22 | Yanis Seguin | France | 19:33 | 0:51 | 55:35 | 0:30 | 30:27 | 1:46:54 | +0:04 |
| 5 | 53 | Panagiotis Bitados | Greece | 18:27 | 0:52 | 56:40 | 0:28 | 30:33 | 1:46:57 | +0:07 |
| 6 | 9 | Rostislav Pevtsov | Azerbaijan | 18:41 | 0:53 | 56:29 | 0:28 | 30:29 | 1:46:58 | +0:08 |
| 7 | 20 | Simon Henseleit | Germany | 18:24 | 0:49 | 56:44 | 0:24 | 30:42 | 1:47:02 | +0:12 |
| 8 | 4 | Gianluca Pozzatti | Italy | 18:16 | 0:53 | 56:51 | 0:26 | 30:43 | 1:47:08 | +0:18 |
| 9 | 7 | Barclay Izzard | Great Britain | 19:04 | 0:49 | 56:08 | 0:23 | 30:58 | 1:47:21 | +0:31 |
| 10 | 1 | Michele Sarzilla | Italy | 18:33 | 0:52 | 56:33 | 0:25 | 31:04 | 1:47:25 | +0:35 |
| 11 | 44 | David Cantero | Spain | 19:25 | 0:55 | 55:43 | 0:26 | 31:12 | 1:47:37 | +0:47 |
| 12 | 26 | Valentin Morlec | France | 18:32 | 0:52 | 56:35 | 0:24 | 31:20 | 1:47:41 | +0:51 |
| 13 | 48 | Sergiy Polikarpenko | Italy | 19:05 | 0:52 | 56:06 | 0:32 | 31:11 | 1:47:44 | +0:54 |
| 14 | 10 | Alberto González | Spain | 18:23 | 0:53 | 56:57 | 0:26 | 31:08 | 1:47:45 | +0:55 |
| 15 | 19 | Emil Holm | Denmark | 19:32 | 0:50 | 55:39 | 0:27 | 31:21 | 1:47:47 | +0:57 |
| 16 | 15 | Noah Servais | Belgium | 18:28 | 0:52 | 56:42 | 0:27 | 31:23 | 1:47:50 | +1:00 |
| 17 | 12 | Paul Georgenthum | France | 18:44 | 0:52 | 56:22 | 0:24 | 31:37 | 1:47:56 | +1:06 |
| 18 | 62 | Jonas Osterholt | Germany | 18:35 | 0:52 | 56:33 | 0:29 | 31:56 | 1:48:23 | +1:33 |
| 19 | 29 | Cedric Osterholt | Germany | 18:21 | 0:55 | 56:44 | 0:27 | 32:00 | 1:48:25 | +1:35 |
| 20 | 27 | Arnaud Mengal | Belgium | 19:27 | 0:55 | 55:47 | 0:26 | 32:04 | 1:48:37 | +1:47 |
| 21 | 40 | Casper Stornes | Norway | 18:37 | 0:56 | 56:28 | 0:25 | 32:20 | 1:48:44 | +1:54 |
| 22 | 30 | Lukas Pertl | Austria | 19:22 | 0:50 | 56:17 | 0:27 | 31:53 | 1:48:48 | +1:58 |
| 23 | 28 | Gergely Kiss | Hungary | 18:17 | 0:52 | 57:17 | 0:28 | 32:06 | 1:48:58 | +2:08 |
| 24 | 57 | Gergő Dobi | Hungary | 18:18 | 0:51 | 57:06 | 0:26 | 32:27 | 1:49:06 | +2:16 |
| 25 | 16 | Leon Pauger | Austria | 18:40 | 0:52 | 56:26 | 0:25 | 32:52 | 1:49:13 | +2:23 |
| 26 | 23 | Gregor Payet | Luxembourg | 19:25 | 0:57 | 55:40 | 0:34 | 32:51 | 1:49:24 | +2:34 |
| 27 | 32 | Mitch Kolkman | Netherlands | 18:15 | 0:51 | 57:43 | 0:29 | 32:22 | 1:49:38 | +2:48 |
| 28 | 33 | Michał Oliwa | Poland | 18:23 | 0:54 | 56:48 | 0:27 | 33:13 | 1:49:44 | +2:54 |
| 29 | 55 | Sebastian Wernersen | Norway | 19:04 | 0:53 | 56:02 | 0:24 | 33:26 | 1:49:47 | +2:57 |
| 30 | 11 | Alois Knabl | Austria | 18:20 | 0:53 | 57:42 | 0:29 | 32:36 | 1:49:59 | +3:09 1P |
| 31 | 46 | Henry Räppo | Estonia | 18:32 | 0:52 | 56:39 | 0:27 | 33:43 | 1:50:11 | +3:21 |
| 32 | 37 | Connor Bentley | Great Britain | 18:21 | 0:55 | 56:42 | 0:26 | 34:01 | 1:50:22 | +3:32 |
| 33 | 18 | Vitalii Vorontsov | Ukraine | 19:34 | 0:52 | 57:07 | 0:26 | 32:29 | 1:50:26 | +3:36 |
| 34 | 51 | Johannes Sikk | Estonia | 19:31 | 0:53 | 55:38 | 0:29 | 34:07 | 1:50:36 | +3:46 |
| 35 | 45 | Tomáš Zikmund | Czech Republic | 19:03 | 0:58 | 56:14 | 0:29 | 33:59 | 1:50:40 | +3:50 |
| 36 | 59 | Ognjen Stojanović | Serbia | 19:01 | 0:59 | 57:33 | 0:31 | 32:43 | 1:50:44 | +3:54 |
| 37 | 41 | Oscar Gladney Rundqvist | Denmark | 19:34 | 0:53 | 56:08 | 0:26 | 33:59 | 1:50:59 | +4:09 |
| 38 | 35 | Hamish Reilly | Great Britain | 18:28 | 0:51 | 58:13 | 0:29 | 33:07 | 1:51:06 | +4:16 |
| 39 | 38 | Jan Volár | Czech Republic | 19:07 | 0:56 | 56:44 | 0:34 | 33:51 | 1:51:10 | +4:20 |
| 40 | 3 | Sylvain Fridelance | Switzerland | 18:31 | 0:55 | 56:35 | 0:27 | 34:46 | 1:51:11 | +4:21 |
| 41 | 21 | James Edgar | Ireland | 18:36 | 0:53 | 59:55 | 0:33 | 31:32 | 1:51:27 | +4:37 |
| 42 | 56 | Tomáš Kříž | Czech Republic | 18:53 | 0:55 | 56:15 | 0:31 | 35:30 | 1:52:02 | +5:12 |
| 43 | 31 | Maciej Bruździak | Poland | 18:40 | 0:52 | 56:47 | 0:29 | 35:49 | 1:52:35 | +5:45 |
| 44 | 52 | Artūrs Liepa | Latvia | 19:02 | 0:52 | 57:38 | 0:28 | 34:43 | 1:52:42 | +5:52 |
| 45 | 63 | Kamil Kulik | Poland | 19:45 | 0:53 | 1:00:08 | 0:27 | 32:09 | 1:53:20 | +6:30 |
| 46 | 36 | Mario Mola | Spain | 19:35 | 0:52 | 1:00:22 | 0:29 | 32:04 | 1:53:21 | +6:31 |
| 47 | 54 | Luke McCarron | Ireland | 19:29 | 0:56 | 1:00:25 | 0:30 | 32:21 | 1:53:38 | +6:48 |
| 48 | 42 | Gültigin Er | Turkey | 18:39 | 0:55 | 57:24 | 0:40 | 36:22 | 1:53:57 | +7:07 |
| 49 | 47 | Itamar Levanon | Israel | 20:03 | 0:53 | 59:52 | 0:31 | 33:31 | 1:54:48 | +7:58 |
| 50 | 34 | Donald Hillebregt | Netherlands | 19:05 | 0:56 | 57:38 | 0:33 | 36:51 | 1:55:00 | +8:10 |
| 51 | 49 | Peter Rojtáš | Slovakia | 18:26 | 0:50 | 1:00:02 | 0:39 | 35:45 | 1:55:41 | +8:51 |
| 52 | 14 | Felix Duchampt | Romania | 19:29 | 0:52 | 1:00:30 | 0:30 | 40:14 | 2:01:33 | +14:43 |
| | 24 | Richard Varga | Slovakia | 18:39 | 0:55 | 56:30 | 0:38 | Did not finish | Did not finish | Did not finish |
| | 17 | Bob Haller | Luxembourg | 19:05 | 0:52 | 58:27 | Did not finish | Did not finish | Did not finish | Did not finish |
| | 39 | Zsombor Dévay | Hungary | 18:33 | 0:53 | Did not finish | Did not finish | Did not finish | Did not finish | Did not finish |
| | 61 | Igor Kozlovskij | Lithuania | 19:06 | 1:02 | Lapped | Lapped | Lapped | Lapped | Lapped |
| | 43 | Itamar Eshed | Israel | 19:28 | 0:56 | Lapped | Lapped | Lapped | Lapped | Lapped |
| | 58 | Lukas Prokopavičius | Lithuania | 22:12 | 0:52 | Lapped | Lapped | Lapped | Lapped | Lapped |