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About: Former professional open-water swimmer Lucy Charles-Barclay is one of the fastest long-distance female triathletes on the planet. The GB elite has finished runner-up at the Ironman world championship in Kona, Hawaii, on four consecutive occasions (2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 – no races in 2020 and 2021), won Challenge Roth in 2019, the 2021 Ironman 70.3 world championship and the 2022 World Triathlon long distance championship. She has also raced in short-course triathlon, finishing fifth at the 2021 Leeds World Triathlon Championship Series race.

Articles by Lucy Charles-Barclay

Ironman Lanzarote: Race info, tips and training advice

Lucy Charles-Barclay shares her top course-completing tips for one of the toughest Ironmans on the circuit – Ironman Lanzarote

21 February 2023 / 16:33 GMT14 May 2024 / 09:23 BST

Ironman Lanzarote: Race info, tips and training advice

McFly’s Harry Judd and all the celebrities racing this weekend’s T100 London triathlon

The T100 event returns to London’s Excel on Saturday 25 July and Sunday 26 July, with 5,300 age-group athletes taking on the super-sprint, sprint, Olympic and T100 distances. Among them will be a number of recognisable names from the worlds of sport and entertainment. The 2025 T100 London Triathlon attracted plenty of famous faces, from […]

Garmin launch first screen-free fitness tracker – but will it serve the needs of triathletes?

The old joke goes “if I pass out, stop my Garmin” and if there’s one thing triathletes are fond of, it’s a stat or 100… But today Garmin have announced the launch of a screen-free fitness band. Think like your multisport watch, but without the screen telling you things and demanding your attention. The new […]

I came last in a multisport race – and still ended up on the winners’ podium. Here’s why I love the Polkerris Aquathlon

It’s a spookily cold and grey day at the start of May. Jogging the short distance along the beach, I’m suffering from an attack of the collywobbles. It strikes me that this is an unusual word for my brain to have struck upon. Collywobbles. For those not from the north of England, this is better […]

I’m a swim coach – and these are the most common wetsuit problems I see

Wetsuits can be a great performance enhancer for open water swimming. Get it wrong though and you can be slower, not faster. Here are the most common problems I see with open-water swimming and triathlon wetsuits and – more crucially – how to fix them. A wetsuit is a wetsuit, right? Usually black neoprene, few […]

How to watch the London WTCS 2026 this weekend

The World Triathlon Championship Series (WTCS) returns to London this weekend on Saturday 25 July, after an 11-year hiatus. Organised by World Triathlon, the short-course, sprint-distance race will form part of the T100 London weekend at the Excel, where almost 5,300 amateur athletes will take on their own swim, bike, and run challenges. The Professional […]