December 16, 2014 (Quebec City, QC) – The 11th edition of the Pentathlon des neiges presented by MEC will be held on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City from January 31 to March 1, 2015. Last year, the event attracted a record 5,338 participants, from 2 years old to 81 years young, including several Olympians. The International Triathlon Union (ITU) has in fact qualified the Pentathlon des neiges as the world’s biggest winter multisport event.

Fun… to the power of 5

The Pentathlon des neiges includes four weekends of activities where families, children, leisure sportsmen and sportswomen, and high performance athletes are invited to discover and delight in the joys of winter. The program includes several challenges where participants can compete solo or in teams of two to five participants in five disciplines: biking, running, cross-country skiing, skating and snowshoeing. Aside from the pentathlon activities, a few triathlon competitions – snowshoeing, skating and cross-country skiing – are scheduled as well as the presentation of the World Snowshoe Championships.

For full details on the program, go here.