Flora Duffy has secured a lucrative three-year sponsorship deal with the Bermuda Tourism Authority.

The multiple International Triathlon Union world champion and Commonwealth Games gold medal-winner is to receive $160,000 from the BTA.

The sponsorship agreement came into effect in July 18 of last year and expires on December 31, 2020.

The deal was included in the BTA’s list of 2018 contracts which was published in The Royal Gazette and also on the authority’s official website.

Under the Public Access to Information Act 2010, the BTA are required to publish contracts with a total value of $50,000 or more, including the name of the contractor, the monetary value of the contract, the goods and services to be provided under the contract and the time for performance of the contract (completion or delivery date).

Duffy lived up to expectations after capturing the gold medal in the sprint-distance race on the Gold Coast this week. She is the first local woman athlete to medal at the Games and joins Clarence “Nicky” Saunders, who won the high jump at the 1990 Auckland Games, as the island’s only gold medal-winners at the world’s third-largest multi-sport event.

The reigning ITU world champion presently serves as a tourism ambassador through a partnership with the BTA.

The agreement positions Flora to showcase her home country as host of the International Triathlon Union’s World Series events in 2018, 2019 and 2020. The first of three ITU World Series events, the MS Amlin World Triathlon Bermuda, will take place on April 28.

Also listed in the BTA’s list of 2018 contracts is the $1,050,000 the organisation will pay the International Triathlon Union Inc over a three-year period towards a multiyear licence and hosting agreement which includes prize money for the aforementioned events.

Meanwhile, another athlete the BTA is sponsoring is sailor Mustafa Ingham who is serving an apprenticeship with Turn the Tide on Plastic, one of seven teams in the 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race.

Ingham, who competed for Team BDA at last summer’s Red Bull Youth America’s Cup, will receive $96,250 between October 25, 2017 and June 30 of this year.

“In the cases of Flora and Mustafa, the Bermuda Tourism Authority has partnered with home-grown, world-class athletes that participate in sports which represent clear tourism business opportunities for Bermuda,” Glenn Jones, director of public and stakeholder relations at the BTA, told The Royal Gazette.

“Both Flora and Mustafa are engaged in multiyear agreements to promote Bermuda around the world.

“We’re immensely proud of them both.”