The patience of triathlon fans was rewarded as the WTCS season burst into life at the opening round of 2024 in Yokohama. It had been a long wait since the Championship Finals in Pontevedra and athletes, coaches and fans were champing at the bit to get the new Series underway.
The sun was out and the action was on from the gun for the men’s WTCS Yokohama on Saturday afternoon, and Morgan Pearson delivered the gold with a blistering 29m11s 10km run to the tape.
In a race full of stories and Olympic consequence on Saturday morning in Yokohama, it was a French star with renewed designs on the biggest prize in Paris who shone brightest, Leonie Periault pulling out a run for the ages to seal a second World Triathlon Championship Series gold of her career.
On a beautiful Saturday morning in Yokohama, Japan, some of the biggest names in Para Triathlon hit the city streets with just over 100 days to go to the opening of the Paralympic Games and the hunt for form and points as well as the medals delivered plenty of entertainment for the crowds.
The Olympic Qualification window has entered its closing stages, with less than two months to go, and plenty is left to be decided. For most countries, the final composition of their Olympic triathlon teams remains up in the air.
World Triathlon and the Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) have announced new anti-doping measures, including a growing, global Registered Testing Pool (RTP) that will see athletes tested in and out of competition for the new T100 Triathlon World Tour.
As the racing towards Paris 2024 heats up, April saw another busy month in Development, Education and NF Services in which: 124 National Federations confirmed their Good Standing status with World Triathlon on time, a testament to each Federation’s commitment to the fulfilment of its membership obligations.
Team World Triathlon are facing their final roll of the dice. The Olympic qualification window closes in less than four weeks and, as such, the current iteration of the Team will soon find out which of them will be going to Paris.
On small details can grand moments turn. The individual triathlon events at the Olympic Games may last for a tad under two hours, but the races can be won in the briefest of windows.
It is a city and a course that have become synonymous with the sport, and Yokohama hosts its 12th year of top-tier Para Triathlon racing on Saturday morning, with the athletes chasing everything from WTPS medals to Paralympic points to the form that could see them ultimately triumph in Paris.
When Jack Howell (AUS) speaks of the prospect of racing at the Paris Paralympic Games in September, you can practically feel the energy crackle from his every word.
Yokohama is ready to get the 2024 World Triathlon Championship Series rolling on Saturday morning, and anticipation is running red hot with the prospect of an almighty first Olympic-distance test for the athletes in this huge year for the sport.
After the comings and goings of Abu Dhabi, the 2024 Series will finally begin in earnest in Japan on Saturday, with WTCS Yokohama the stage for one of the most hotly anticipated races of recent times.
The 2024 Chengdu World Cup was the first official event of the year for Team World Triathlon, the development squad for athletes from smaller national federations to help them realise their Olympic potential.
After the unfortunate cancellation of WTCS Abu Dhabi, the WTCS season will begin in earnest with the classic race in Yokohama. An institution of the World Series, Yokohama is one of two standard-distance stops scheduled before the WTCS Final.
It was a day for breakaways at the Chengdu World Cup as Julie Derron (SUI) and Max Stapley (GBR) claimed the gold medals in style. You can watch back the
Swiss number one Julie Derron produced an Olympic-distance triathlon masterclass in Chengdu, China, on Monday afternoon, putting together three superb segments to take her third World Cup win by almost a minute.
Great Britain’s Max Stapley rose to the occasion in Chengdu, China on Monday morning, pulling clear of a four-deep lead group over the last lap to deliver a scintillating Olympic-distance gold.
One year ago, Rosa Maria Tapia Vidal (MEX) was in a somewhat different position to that in which she now finds herself. A new best WTCS result of 16th in Abu Dhabi and a 4th place finish at the New Plymouth World Cup in the opening stages of the season hinted at plenty of promise.
In one month, the race will be over. The Olympic qualification window will close on 27 May 2024 and the outcome of all the striving, battling and dreaming will be clear.
The fifth World Cup stop of this Olympic year sees the circuit head to Chengdu, China, on Monday, where the battles for the medals as well as the points and performances that could help seal Paris 2024 qualification are on the line.
The 2024 World Triathlon Cup tour hits the Chinese city of Chengdu on Monday 29 April. Ten years on from the first edition, this time around there is the promise of some extra Olympic spice on the menu.
World Triathlon is pleased to announce that the Championship Finals Torremolinos-Andalucía will host the first-ever World Triathlon Para Mixed Relay Championships on 20 October, after two years of the event being delivered at the World Triathlon Championship Finals as a test.
Alongside the 2024 Africa Triathlon Championships, the Africa Triathlon Electoral Congress was held in Baron Palace Sahl Hashish Hurghada on the 19 April 2024, in the presence of H.E Egyptian Minister of Youth and Sports Professor Dr.
On home soil in Hatsukaichi, Japan, Kenji Nener (JPN) and Yuko Takahashi (JPN) were in exemplary form as they defended their Asia Triathlon Championships crowns on Saturday.
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