Volcano Triathlon Lanzarote

Event information

When do entries open for the Volcano 2027?

This is the question we get most, so it goes first. Club La Santa has not announced the day on its website, checked on 14 October 2026: its Volcano page still carries the button «PRÓXIMA APERTURA DE INSCRIPCIONES 2027», entries opening soon, with no date, and the English version reads «2027 REGISTRATION OPENING SOON».

There is a date, though, and it sits in the organiser’s own system. The public event page at the official timekeeper, Race Result, has an entry opening loaded for 15 October 2026 at 14:00, Canary Islands time, which is 15:00 on the Spanish mainland: the data on that page reads «validFrom: 2026-10-15T14:00:00+01:00», pointing at its entry form, read on 14 October 2026. The very same time appears on the Volcano Triathlon Half event, and that fits what the organiser announced in July 2026: all three distances open at once.

It is the first concrete day to appear in a source belonging to the organiser. Until Club La Santa says so on its own website, take it for what it is: a date loaded into the system that will open the form, not an announcement. This page is updated the day it opens.

What to watch, and where, so you do not depend on anyone:

• The official Volcano Triathlon page and its entry button: that is where the organiser will announce it.
• The public event page at the timekeeper, which is the system that opens the form and tends to know first.
• The «Club La Santa Races» newsletter, which you sign up for from that same official page.

When it opened for the previous edition, which is the only verifiable reference we have: entries for 2026 were already open on 13 May 2025, two and a half weeks after the previous edition was raced, according to the capture of the official site from that day on the Internet Archive. So in the previous cycle the entry window had been open for almost a year before race day. The 2027 cycle is running to a different calendar: in July 2026 the organiser announced entries would open on 20 August and, as at 14 October 2026, they had still not opened. Waiting costs you no place: the timekeeper’s 2027 participant list is still empty, read on 14 October 2026.

In the meantime, this much is settled and worth preparing for:

• When and where: at Club La Santa, Tinajo. The date is provisional, 24 April 2027, and where it comes from is explained just below.
• What is raced: the olympic distance (1.5-40-10) and the sprint (750-20-5), plus relays in the olympic race and the Volcano Kids in the afternoon.
• Who can enter: categories from 18-24 to 75-79, with a minimum age of 18 as at 31 December 2027.
• What entry covers: aid stations, a shirt, a finisher medal and patch, timing, first aid, massage at the finish and accident insurance.
• What is still missing: confirmation of the race day on the official website, and a price you can actually pay. What the timekeeper has loaded is not a tariff in force, and the categories and entry section explains why.

Is the race definitely on? Does it qualify for the World Championship?

Both questions reach us, and both have an answer.

The race is on. Club La Santa announces it on its website for 2027 with the two distances, and the accident insurance document linked from that same page expressly covers the «Club La Santa Volcano Triathlon Sprint & Olímpico 2027», read on 14 October 2026. What the organiser’s website still does not give is the day, not whether the race happens.

On the World Championship: Club La Santa publishes no slot and no qualification for any world championship, checked on 14 October 2026 on its Volcano Triathlon page in Spanish and in English. The prizes section hands out trophies and prize money to the top 10 in the sprint and the olympic, plus age-group podiums, and mentions no slots. Nor is it a race in the IRONMAN franchise — Club La Santa organises it — so it hands out no slots for the IRONMAN world championships. If that changes, it will be said here.

About the event

The Club La Santa Volcano Triathlon was born in 1984 and is one of Spain’s longest-running triathlons; the organisers themselves present it as «el triatlón internacional más longevo de España», the longest-lived international triathlon in Spain. The 2026 edition, the 42nd, was raced on 25 April over the Olympic distance, starting at 08:00 from the Club La Santa lagoon, with the bike heading through the north of the island and the run around Tinajo.

Dieter Comhair won in 1:52:53 and Lucy Charles-Barclay in 2:04:18. Behind the Belgian came Daniel Baekkegard (+1:05) and Laurens Verluyten (+2:36); behind the Briton, Anne Haug (+1:35) and Lydia Dant (+9:58). Charles-Barclay and Haug on the same podium says a good deal about what kind of race this is.

And it is still approachable: Cadena SER Lanzarote reported more than 350 participants from 25 nationalities. It is one of the few places where someone who trains as a hobby starts on the same day, in the same water, as a world champion.

Where the 24 April date comes from

There are two dates published for 2027 and they do not agree, so it is better said plainly:

• Club La Santa’s July 2026 press release, carried by Europa Press, put the 43rd edition on 20 March 2027.
• The official timekeeper, Race Result, today titles its event number 402211 «Club La Santa Volcano Triathlon 2027, 24/04/2027» and places it in Tinajo, read on 14 October 2026. On the 2 October 2026 reading, that same event said «20/03/2027».

Club La Santa does not publish the race date on its website, checked on 14 October 2026: it is not on its Volcano Triathlon page, nor in its listing of events and training camps, which that day lists training camps as far ahead as 2028 but neither of the two races. We publish the timekeeper’s date, because that is the system the organiser itself uses to open entries, and we treat it as provisional until Club La Santa confirms it. The aggregator Finishers also places the race at «End of April 2027», read on 14 October 2026.

The four races of 2027

Club La Santa announces two distances for 2027: «Distancia sprint: 750 m de natación, 20 km de bicicleta, 5 km de carrera» and «Distancia olímpica: 1,5 km de natación, 40 km de bicicleta, 10 km de carrera», the sprint over 750 m, 20 km and 5 km, and the olympic over 1.5 km, 40 km and 10 km. The timekeeper, on the other hand, loads four competitions, read on 14 October 2026:

• Club La Santa Volcano Triathlon, the olympic race.
• Club La Santa Volcano Triathlon Sprint.
• Volcano Relay, relays over the olympic distance only, in men’s, women’s and mixed categories. The website covers them in its categories section, although it does not count them as a distance.
• Volcano Kids, the one genuinely missing from the official site, checked on 14 October 2026: a fun race for children aged 7 to 17, starting at 16:30 with a single fee of 8 EUR. That is how the timekeeper listed it on 2 October 2026, placing it at 16:30 on race day itself. Watch the day, though: the 2026 athlete guide also scheduled it for 16:30, but on the Friday before the race and at the Club La Santa water sports centre. Until the 2027 guide appears, unpublished as of 14 October 2026, there is no confirmation of whether it goes back to the eve or stays on the day.

Course and distances

The Olympic distance is 1.5 km swim, 40 km bike and 10 km run. The swim is held in the sheltered saltwater lagoon at Club La Santa, which is what allows an early start without depending on the state of the open sea. The bike goes out to Caleta de Caballo, Soo and Caleta de Famara, and from there along the Famara to Teguise road up to the turnaround; the run is two laps from the stadium.

The bike is where the race is decided. The terrain has no long climbs, but the northern Lanzarote wind is relentless and turns a flat section into an exercise in patience; the gap between one year’s times and another’s is explained more by wind than by anyone’s form.

The cut-off times

Those for the olympic race are published by both the website and the athlete guide, and two of them are fixed clock times rather than elapsed time:

• Swim: 1 hour.
• Bike: «1er Corte a las 10:30hrs» at Caleta de Famara, after 30 km, and «2º Corte a las 11:00hrs» at the Club La Santa stadium, after 40 km, so first cut at 10:30 and second at 11:00.
• Run: 4 hours 30 minutes.

The sprint cut-offs have a problem, and it belongs to the website itself: it contradicts itself on the same page. In the «RECORRIDO SPRINT» section the run cut-off is «2 horas y 15 minutos tras la salida individual de cada participante», 2 h 15 from each athlete’s individual start; in the «TIEMPOS DE CORTE» section, a few paragraphs further down, the same cut-off reads «Carrera a pie: 2hs 30min», 2 h 30. That is fifteen minutes of difference and there is no way to tell which one governs, checked on 2 October 2026. The swim (30 minutes) and the bike (1 hour 30 minutes) do match in both sections.

There is a second, smaller discrepancy in the olympic race: «RECORRIDO OLÍMPICO» counts the swim and run cut-offs «tras la salida individual de cada participante», from each athlete’s individual start, while «TIEMPOS DE CORTE» counts them «después del comienzo de la carrera», from the start of the race. With a rolling start those are not the same thing.

Categories and entry

The individual categories run from 18-24 to 75-79, in both sprint and olympic, relays exist only in the olympic race, and the minimum age is 18 as at 31 December 2027. Entry covers race organisation and traffic control, aid stations, a shirt, a finisher medal and patch, timing, first aid, massage at the finish in order of arrival until 13:30, and accident insurance through Mutuacat.

The entry opening is not announced on the official website, checked on 14 October 2026: it says «PRÓXIMA APERTURA DE INSCRIPCIONES 2027», entries opening soon, without giving a day. The timekeeper does carry a date, 15 October 2026 at 14:00, and it is explained above with its wording. No date is invented here: we write the one that exists, with its source and the day we read it.

On prices: the timekeeper has a fee scale loaded for the olympic, the sprint and the relays, but it is not in force. The entry form was still closed and the first band of that scale expired without entries ever opening, checked on 2 October 2026, so those are provisional figures rather than a tariff. We do not publish them until you can actually pay them.

There is a second date: the Volcano Triathlon Half debuts in 2027 over the middle distance, on a provisional 26 June. Nine weeks separate the two, so they can be linked.

Winners by edition

The times shown are for the Olympic distance. The full podiums are in the 2026 race report.

Planning notes

Work on transitions, bike pacing into a headwind, and running off a hard effort: those are the three things that separate a good day here from a bad one. In race week, confirm the athlete guide and the timetable, which change with the format: the 2027 guide is not published yet, checked on 14 October 2026, and the website offers the 2026 one for now.

Club La Santa is both venue and accommodation, and in spring it is full of training groups. If you are racing and want to sleep there, do not leave it late.